Tom Dooley
Some years back Vickie and I vacationed near Boone, NC, home of Doc Watson. We stayed in a place with
Reflections on faith, music, and community by Gary Allison Furr
Some years back Vickie and I vacationed near Boone, NC, home of Doc Watson. We stayed in a place with
If you don’t know who Ricky Skaggs is, then you really don’t know anything about bluegrass and old-time music. It’s
Anyway, riding in a van for a week turned us from “Friends and Brothers” to angry inmates who couldn’t wait
The truth is, the banjo, like all the indigenous music of the South, is another of those curious shadowy meeting
Earl Scruggs, “pioneer” as the Huffington Post put it, of the Three-finger Banjo style, has died. For some of us,
Weather. Someone said to me not long ago, “It is humbling to consider that when you come to die, the
“Just a Little Talk With Jesus” is a famous old gospel song. Last night, our band, Shades Mountain Air, had
Wade Mainer died this week at the age of 104. A mountain banjo player who came out of the mountains