Swamp Dogg ventured into bluegrass on his new album — "Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St" — because at the age of 81,"I'm gonna really go where I feel," he says. (Sam Muller / For The Times) ...

Bluegrass music has never directly aligned with the general behavior of the mainstream country music scene. Never has it adapted for the sake of popularity and profit, and never has it bent or broken ...

Like it or not, Durango has an active bluegrass-music scene. Live with it. While its popularity may bum some of the genre’s naysayers out, it’s arguably not any more fertile than the towns punk or EDM ...

NAMM 2025: Martin is teaming-up with arguably one of the faces of modern bluegrass, Billy Strings, on two signature models – the D-28 Billy Strings and the D-X2E Billy Strings – which promise to ...

At this point, Willie seems to have outgrown the ability to surprise people. Is he really, at the age of ninety, still touring and playing nearly a hundred shows this year? Will he really release ...

Earlier this year, Dierks Bentley cut a bluegrass version of “American Girl” for Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty. The track was one of the highlights of the album. Tonight, he ...

The next Dove Mountain Bluegrass Jam is scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Dove Mountain Center at West Tangerine Road and North Dove Mountain Boulevard. The jam is outdoors on the patio adjacent ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — After the explosive opening plucks of the song “I Ain’t” by Cole Quest and the City Pickers, listeners may be caught off guard that the first verse is about … eating your vegetables ...

Patrick Varine Thursday, May 30, 2024 4:00 a.m. | Thursday, May 30, 2024 4:00 a.m. Mt. Lebanon’s John Mackin got his first taste of bluegrass music as a young boy in the mid-1950s. Mackin, 74, ...

Tony Rice, the master bluegrass picker who drew fans worldwide for the chance to hear the quick, fluid sounds he conjured from his storied Martin D-28 guitar, has died at age 69. Rice died Friday at ...

There was good pickin' going on under the shade of any tree you picked Sunday at the annual Bluegrass Jam at Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site. That's the great thing about bluegrass music: You ...

Most music festivals on Long Island choose to focus on rock, jam bands, blues or country. But there’s only one that spotlights bluegrass, the music genre that mixes acoustic instruments with ...