New Grass Revival: Bela Fleck, me, John Cowan, and Pat Flynn at the KFC Festival in Louisville, KY, 1986(?).
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A few weeks ago my wife and I journeyed the 1,000 miles down to King’s Mountain, North Carolina, to attend the seventh annual Darin & Brooke Aldridge Holiday Concert at the Joy Performance Center there. We attended both the afternoon […]
Wide Open Jam, World of Bluegrass, 9/29/2018
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
James McMurtry began his Taos set singing, “Don’t be yelling at me when I’m cleaning my gun,” playing solo on acoustic 6- and 12-string guitars. He got our attention and instantly took command of the outdoor Amphitheater Stage at Taos Music […]
John Cowan has been on bluegrass fans’ radar since he first joined the ground-breaking New Grass Revival on bass and singing lead tenor, in 1974. Cowan’s command of the vocals in that group came much to founding member and bluegrass […]
Last weekend, we attended a well-established festival near Palatka, Florida, where we’ve been coming since 2006. It’s promoted by Norman Adams, who books and operates nine prominent and mostly traditional bluegrass festivals up and down the East Coast. He’s careful […]
Genius has within it the seeds of its own destruction. Bill Monroe labored for years to find and develop a musical sound he heard in his head. He experimented throughout his sojourn in the industrial necklace around the Great Lakes […]
Special to the Wheeling Daily Register, Jan. 20, 1894: WILD E, W. Va., January 19. – John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p.m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death. His neck was broken and […]
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