By now you you have read Kim’s enchanting piece on this year’s MerleFest, now comes my take on MerleFest at 30. Rather than a blow by blow, I’ll go with some takeaways. Here now are mine for MerleFest’s 30th edition. […]
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Merlefest has just capped its 30th festival, and what a year it was. The festival packed into four days a diverse array of artists, including festival favorites Scythian, stars like James Taylor, old masters like Happy Traum, innovators like Sam Bush […]
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 […]
Bob Dylan has been a part of the American musical consciousness since the early 1960s. In other words, a man now three-quarters of a century old has fascinated, irritated, entertained, intrigued, and inspired Americans for more than half a century. […]
In the 1970s during the punk versus disco wars, there was also a revolution going on. Even though it was somewhat of an underground one and garnered not much attention outside certain circles, it nonetheless moved a mountain. The mountain […]
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 […]
We’ve seen the Del McCoury Band at two midsized bluegrass festivals this summer. At age 77 — and having been inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 2011 — you’d think that McCoury has earned himself a […]
Some years ago at a bluegrass festival held in a cow pasture in Florida, the band Nothin’ Fancy seemed tired and listless after their first set. We were pretty new to bluegrass, but Irene, my wife of now 52 years, […]
Last week, I was shocked and deeply disappointed to read — first in a Facebook post, then in Bluegrass Today — the daily online news source for the bluegrass community, that WAMU’s BluegrassCountry.org, would be leaving us on Dec. 31 unless a new owner […]
I’ve known Brad Hunt for many years and he always seems happy and usually has an amusing story to share. I always remember and love that he accepted an Americana Music Award for Sonny Landreth, walking to the podium in […]
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