Kenny & Amanda Smith, the IBMA’s Emerging Artists of the Year in 2003, are back with several new band members and a new batch of songs, and the result is a strong third album that deserves a hearing well beyond […]
Kenny & Amanda Smith, the IBMA’s Emerging Artists of the Year in 2003, are back with several new band members and a new batch of songs, and the result is a strong third album that deserves a hearing well beyond […]
Bluegrass legend Larry Sparks was still in high school when he began his career in 1964, playing guitar with the Stanley Brothers. When lead singer Carter Stanley died two years later, his brother Ralph chose the talented teen as his […]
The Steep Canyon Rangers are among the younger crop of blue-grassers whose vocals sound like they cut their teeth on equal parts James Taylor and Jim & Jesse. Which, of course, they probably did with a bit of newgrass, rock […]
The annals of bluegrass are filled with the names of artists who labored in relative (and sometimes absolute) obscurity, but none are more deserving of resurrection than Pigeon Roost, Kentucky, native Harley “Red” Allen, who died in 1993. A singer […]
Evidently last year’s first compilation of material from this Ohio grass-roots gospel group’s mid-’70s recordings was received well enough for their label to plow ahead with a second, and that’s great news. Certainly the Marshall Family’s influential catalogue, though not […]
Alabama mandolin player David Davis has been leading the Warrior River Boys for a couple of decades, but it’s been a long while since they were in the studio. For fans drawn to the genre only in the past few […]
Observers attuned to bluegrass music’s darker, rawer side hear IIIrd Tyme Out’s polished, award-winning vocals and burnished solos, or see their smooth, easygoing stage shows, and conclude that the group appeals to a growing suburban audience raised on contemporary country […]
When two-time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year Kenny Smith left the Lonesome River Band in late 2001, it took him no time at all to decide to put a band together with his wife Amanda. After self-releasing a strong […]
As bluegrass music has gained popularity in recent years, a couple of trends have emerged. One is to smooth out many of the rough edges and downplay the country aspects of the music, which results in a bunch of bands […]
In bluegrass years, 1973 was a long time ago. It is also something of a midpoint in the current history of bluegrass music. Since Bill Monroe’s debut on the Grand Ole Opry in 1939, the Osborne Brothers had plugged in, […]
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