As my wife and I have traveled over the last 15 years, during what some would call our retirement, we’ve experienced bluegrass music as what I thought to be a national music phenomenon. Recently, I read a book called Bluegrass […]
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There’s almost a sense of culture shock moving from IBMA week in Raleigh, North Carolina, to the Tennessee Fall Homecoming in Norris, Tennessee, about 30 miles north of Knoxville. IBMA provided an eye- and ear-popping musical feast. There, cutting edge bands explored […]
James King was a man with great musical talent and a voracious appetite for life. Those two things fed each other and helped him to emerge from the picker’s field to become one of the most popular and beloved bluegrass singers, from […]
This is the 16th year for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer to run at Hoover-Y Park in Lochbourne, OH. In 2000, Mandy Adkins died of an aggressive brain stem tumor at the age of 19, after treatment at St. Jude Children’s […]
James King’s voice can wring the lonesome from the lyric of a song. He’s not a flashy player; he’s not the best looking. He’s short on image, which might explain why he’s routinely overlooked by the IBMA. But no one […]
On his third album for Rounder, hard-core Virginia bluegrasser James King opted to use his road band, supplemented by the great Bobby Hicks as guest fiddler. That’s a gutsy move, considering the high caliber of the backup on his previous […]
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