Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...
If bluegrass quintet the Steep Canyon Rangers were booked at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on their own, they'd likely be on the intimate Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. The Steep Canyon Rangers ...
On hearing George Jackson play a fiddle tune from his new record Hair & Hide, you might think he’d lived in Appalachia all his life. In fact, the New Zealand-born fiddler and composer made his way to ...
Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...
They just returned to their home in Nashville from the West Coast, where they played eight shows, in part as an experiment in parenting. Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn welcomed their second child, ...
The Guthrie legacy is being carried out by the family’s younger generation. Cole Quest of Cole Quest and the City Pickers is taking his family’s rich folk sound and giving it new life. Quest, the ...
If you know American bluegrass music, you know Earl Scruggs. Today, Google's doodle team created an animated illustration in honor of the famed banjo-picking pioneer, who would have celebrated his ...
A member of Leftover Salmon and John Cowan’s band prior to joining Punch Brothers, banjoist Noam Pikelny plays a 1941 Gibson PB-7 that is noted for its weight as much as its sound, with a custom Robin ...
Goldmine Pickers started in 2003 with Jay Lapp on vocals, mandolin and guitar; Derek Kratzer on vocals and upright bass; Sean Ellsworth-Hoffman on vocals, fiddle and guitar; and Lukas Simpson on ...
J.D. Crowe and the New South will be playing in Meadowgreen Park Music Hall in Clay CIty, an ideal place to hear the banjo great. Lexington Herald-Leader J.D. Crowe and the New South 7 p.m. April 7 at ...
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rebecca Roberts. Time now for your letters. We received a number of e-mails about our letter segment last week, especially the one particular letter about ...
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