The Bluegrass Album Band is that music’s most successful repertoire group, and not just because of the incredible combination of talent. Though it exists only in the recording studio, its members play ...

Bluegrass is inherently collaborative. Rooted in folk music, the genre relies on standards that have been covered countless times over the years. It makes sense that some of the best bluegrass albums ...

It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a batch of bluegrass-related CDs. (Actually, it was a whole two weeks ago.) But the stack remains, the Beyond Bluegrass Festival of Acoustic Music ...

That every one of these CDs comes from an independent label drives home the fact that bluegrass was an “alternative” music genre long before “alt” became a marketing niche. Even though the music’s ...

Missy Raines found her instrumental voice a long time ago. She was already a bluegrass fan, and slowly developing some skills on piano and guitar, when her father lugged a double bass to the family’s ...