This question popped up on my Facebook feed on Monday morning: “In your opinion, is bluegrass music on the decline, or it it growing? And what will it be like in 20 years??” The writer, in his explanation, went on […]
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It’s January third and many bluegrass musicians have been, more or less, on hiatus. Some notable festivals occur during the cold months, but, in a genre whose most popular manifestation has, historically at least, been outdoors at festivals and pickins, […]
Many of us have grown up musically with Sierra Hull from her youngest years in Byrdstown, TN, where she was born in 1991 into a tightly knit family where music was played and enjoyed. Given a fiddle she had requested at age […]
When I was a high school teacher, lo these many years ago, as the school year began to draw to a close members of the senior class would sometimes say, “Let’s start a tradition!” with the idea that they would leave their […]
Brandon Lee Adams has been branded by no less than Tony Rice himself as someone with chops that he thinks might rival his own. Yet, as Brandon told me, he didn’t say Adams is the next Tony Rice. Instead, he likes […]
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 […]
I believe music enables travel through time and space. Thousands of songwriters, instrumentalists and composers routinely do what Einstein and Hawking and Fermi and Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard have failed to explain or achieve. John Denver takes me home, […]
The world of bluegrass festivals we live in is often riddled with nostalgia for a past that may never have existed. Its adherents, with no irony at all, continue to believe that Andy Taylor and his son Opie represent the world […]
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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