Colebrook Road was conceived when guitarist Jesse Eisenbise, a middle school teacher, and his friend Wade Yankey, a consulting engineer, went to see The Steep Canyon Rangers in 2007 or 2008 — as Eisenbise says, “just when they were exploding.” […]
Colebrook Road was conceived when guitarist Jesse Eisenbise, a middle school teacher and his friend Wade Yankey, a consulting engineer, went to see the Steep Canyon Rangers in 2007 or 2008, as Jesse says, “Just when they were exploding.” Soon […]
The Kruger Brothers have brought to American music a vast musical range and versatility of vision. Through their association with Doc Watson and MerleFest, they’ve built a conscious fusion of the bluegrass and Appalachian music they came to America to […]
My wife and I have been attending bluegrass festivals for about 20 years now. We found the genre — its music, community, history, and people — late in life. But it became a signature part of our lives, as we […]
Bluegrass traditionalists are wont to place the stringband music that’s now been a recognizable genre for over 70 years in a category all its own, deciding to excommunicate those who vary from what’s sometimes called the “template” created by Bill […]
Bands form, break up, coalesce, and disappear all the time. Talented side musicians decide they have what it takes to front a band and go off to form their own group to express their own vision of what bluegrass is. […]
Last weekend, Barbara Martin Stephens, at age 83 an energetic, warm, articulate woman, came to the Sertoma Bluegrass Festival in Florida to tell the story of her life with “The King of Bluegrass,” Jimmy Martin. Her book, Don’t Give Your […]
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
With Daylight Saving Time upon us and spring just a week or so ahead, festival season in the bluegrass world lies just over the horizon. Bluegrass tends to follow warm weather, and bluegrass season for my wife and I has […]
