If you don’t know who Ricky Skaggs is, then you really don’t know anything about bluegrass and old-time music. It’s important to distinguish those two
Category: Old-time music
Thou Shalt Love Thy Bandmates
Anyway, riding in a van for a week turned us from “Friends and Brothers” to angry inmates who couldn’t wait to bust out. Fifteen Years.
Banjo Harmonies
The truth is, the banjo, like all the indigenous music of the South, is another of those curious shadowy meeting places of black and white
Farewell, Earl Scruggs, and Thank You
Earl Scruggs, “pioneer” as the Huffington Post put it, of the Three-finger Banjo style, has died. For some of us, he has been a mentor
Weather or Not
Weather. Someone said to me not long ago, “It is humbling to consider that when you come to die, the crowd that day will be
“Just a Little Talk With Jesus”
“Just a Little Talk With Jesus” is a famous old gospel song. Last night, our band, Shades Mountain Air, had a grand time at the
