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. […]
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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 […]
This week’s column was going to be the final one of the year that focuses on new and upcoming roots music releases. But as there are more coming out than one column can hold, I’ll do another one in a couple of […]
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 […]
“Old people always think their time, their format, was better. Mine actually was.” — Tom Petty on PBS’s Soundbreaking The bluegrass community, seemingly quite small, actually consists of thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the world who celebrate a musical form that, […]
I went to a small Quaker boarding school in suburban Chester County, Pennsylvania, during the late 1950s. A small group of guys, mostly two years ahead of me, regularly sneaked down to Sunset Park in the southern part of the […]
Wake up, wake up little Betty What makes you sleep so sound When the highway robbers are a-comin’ They’ll tear your playhouse down The little cabin in Ridgetop, Tennessee hadn’t held a soul in over twenty years. The crime scene […]
Logan Brill rehearses “The Bees” backstage at The Ryman Auditorium with The Grand Ole Opry musicians for her New Years Day, 2016 performance. www.loganbrill.com
Back when I was commuting every day, along the 50 miles that stretch between Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Harrisburg, my morning drives began at 5:30 a.m. First thing I did when I hit the highway was turn on the radio to […]
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