If you catch The Barefoot Movement at a bluegrass festival, you’re going to get the standard blazing fast instrumental runs in traded-off solos, beautiful harmonies, love songs and heartbreak songs. But what you won’t get is bored. Members of the […]
Owensboro sits, cradle-like, along a crook in the Ohio River in Western Kentucky. Indiana is across the river to the north, Nashville two hours south, and Bill Monroe’s homeplace just 30 miles southeast. It’s also home to the Bluegrass Hall […]
Was a time when you could reliably count on 99% of holiday-themed new releases being awful. Lifeless rehashes of “Jingle Bells,” oversentimental and instantly forgettable originals, and pop-ified “reimaginings” of classics that were just made for background noise to forced […]
MerleFest 2016 was bookended by something I had never experienced there before: car troubles. On Friday my battery died and on Sunday, after a full night of rain, I had a flat tire. While those inconveniences prevented me from catching […]
