In today’s increasingly competitive media world, it’s both easier and more difficult to get publicity, especially the type that helps performers generate enough consistent income to keep bands together, let alone maintain music as a full-time occupation. This appears particularly difficult […]
A week ago Saturday we woke up in New Hampshire with the temperature at six degrees, did our last bit of packing, loaded the cat into her carrier in the back seat, and headed south. Years ago, we would have […]
We just spent the weekend at a small bluegrass festival on a field near Oakboro, North Carolina. Big Lick is the first outdoor festival in the long North Carolina season, which runs from now until the middle of October, although […]
… Well, if the truth be told it was the man in front of me who stood on my toe (for which he apologised). But, it could have been Sturgill. The Real Music Club had brought him to the Limelight […]
*Editor’s Note: Ralph Stanley passed away at his home, “in the same mountains of southwestern Virginia where he was born in February 1927,” according to a press release from the IBMA. To honor his memory, we’re re-running this cover story from […]
