Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jerry Garcia in in 1974, a year before the release of his groundbreaking bluegrass album with musicians like Peter Rowan. - Credit ...

After making an album of all train-related songs and a holiday record, Twin Cities bluegrass band the High 48s took a simple approach to their eighth release, “Daddy Was a Bank Robber,” which they’re ...

I want to say something about Tony Rice, the master guitar player who died suddenly on Christmas morning, at sixty-nine, and who, by his friend, the musician Ricky Skaggs, was recalled as “the single ...

Last spring’s performance by the string trio of Phillips, Grier & Flinner at the Wheeler Opera House was sublime to the point where it would be hard to imagine any member of the combo – bassist Todd ...

Billy Strings may be the most controversial name in bluegrass, playing blazing leads on acoustic and distorted electric guitar, an instrument frowned upon by the genre’s hardcore traditionalists. But ...

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 ...

Tony Rice, known as one of the leading bluegrass music legends of the 1970s, died on Christmas Day at age 69. The International Bluegrass Music Association confirmed the news in a statement provided ...

At only 25, Billy Strings, with his blistering instrumentation, classically rich voice and old-soul lyricism, is already staking his claim among the bluegrass elite. In support of his debut solo album ...

Over Halloween weekend Greensky Bluegrass returned to their point of origin and proving ground in Kalamazoo, Michigan. There the band celebrated a quarter-century of spirited sounds and sparkling ...

Even as a toddler, Billy Strings seemed to understand bluegrass. "When he was in his highchair, and I had a friend over and we were playing one day, I looked over and he's right in rhythm with his ...

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