Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six bluegrass guitarists you need to hear. From the iconic roots planted by Bill Monroe to innovators like Billy Strings and Molly ...

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 ...

It’s the day before New Year’s Eve in Nashville, and Molly Tuttle is in a dressing room at the Ryman Auditorium, getting ready to open Old Crow Medicine Show’s annual year-end concerts later that ...

There has been one guiding principle for bluegrass legend Del McCoury over his 50-plus years on stage and in the studio: variety. “Usually when I do a record, all I look for is variety," said McCoury, ...

In his mid-teens, Billy Strings was the lead guitarist in a Grand Rapids, Michigan, prog-rock band called A Day of Moments. He was a high school dropout and hadn’t touched an acoustic guitar in years.

Bluegrass is a genre founded on tradition. That being so, it is no surprise that bluegrass musicians from the present lift and riff off of bluegrass musicians from the past. This is not malicious nor ...

In fact, Brooklyn and New York City in general have become arguably the best places in the United States to hear (and play) ...

Six train cars and six string bands performing on a moving train is the perfect classroom for anyone who wants to learn about bluegrass and its role in American roots music. That classroom is next ...