• Keith Whitley

    Columns
    Bluegrass Goes Electric: Country and Rock & Roll Influence the Genre
    JimmyFitchMusic Posted On October 16, 2017


    Bill Monroe once said in an interview with George Gruhn: “Bluegrass is a pure music. You follow the melody right, and you don’t put in no hot, know-it-all fiddle that don’t belong in there” (Ewing 2006, p. 195). Bluegrass music […]


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    Columns
    A Conversation with Ricky Skaggs about His Memoir, “Kentucky Traveler: My Life in Music”
    Henry Carrigan Posted On July 4, 2015


    One of bluegrass’ most beloved artists, Ricky Skaggs has lived a blessed life, it would seem. He’s played with Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley. He joined up with J.D. Crowe and the New South, Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band, and started […]


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    Album Review
    Keith Whitley – RCA Country Legends
    David Cantwell Posted On September 1, 2002


    He deserves better, but Keith Whitley will be stuck forever in the 1980s. Like John Anderson and Randy Travis, Whitley found inspiration in the delicately curly-cued phrasing of Lefty Frizzell. But unlike his fellow New Traditionalists, Whitley’s ’80s sides haven’t […]


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