The year’s end: Too much darkness, more than a little nostalgia as I recognize I ain’t what I used to be … and more often than not, that’s a good thing. Looking for a column topic at 2:30 a.m. has […]
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Believe it or not, Christmas, for many people in America, stands as one of the most problematic seasons of the year. While for some, it ranks second only to Easter as one of the prime affirmations in their belief in […]
The recent announcement that County Sales, a mail-order music distribution house with a retail outlet located in Floyd, Virginia, will close its doors for good in January, sent a shiver through the bluegrass world, suggesting an important institution in bluegrass […]
Several years ago, a series of IBMA seminars highlighted the problems encountered by women musicians on the road. I thought I’d take a look at how the climate may have changed, or not, since then through the experiences of several […]
Somewhere last night, a child was born while his dad was at a gig. A wife worried at home, anxious about her husband on the road. A teenage boy looked into the stands to see if his father had managed to […]
Dan Tyminski comes from Rutland, VT, where he was born in 1967 and grew up listening to bluegrass music with his dad. Rutland would seem a strange place for the birthplace of one of bluegrass music’s central musicians, but only […]
Bluegrass is wrongfully stereotyped as a traditional music with more than a little hayseed in its ears. Perhaps this stereotype grows out of its early emergence from its own source material, which was then emphasized by its use in television […]
This is the story of a boy, a banjo, and a career. Carl Jackson, singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, entrepreneur, producer, and musical polymath. It traces its roots to Louisville, Mississippi, where Jackson was born in 1953, through a stint with classic […]
In recent years Boston has become known as a hotbed of innovation in bluegrass music. Bands like Crooked Still, The Infamous Stringdusters, Chasing Blue, The Lonely Heartstring Band, and the Boston Boys have either come together in the American Roots […]
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 […]
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