Old Crow Medicine Show is likely one of the last purely popularized bluegrass bands currently in the world of country music. Nothing about their music or appearance articulates a phony sound or ...
This weekend, the mountains of southwestern Virginia are filled with the sweet, cacophonous sound of fiddles. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MA: It is the Old Fiddler's Convention, which draws hundreds of ...
The predominant sound in Owasso these days may be the roar of traffic up and down U.S. 169, but somewhere, deep in the background, one can hear the occasional rhythmic buzzing of bluegrass aficionados ...
On Thursday evening, backstage in a dressing room at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Peter Rowan is plucking his guitar and quietly humming to himself. With less than an hour before showtime, the singer ...
Bluegrass has always been a music by and for the masses. One of the pioneers of the feel-good fast-pickin’ genre in the 1940s ...