Tom Dooley
Some years back Vickie and I vacationed near Boone, NC, home of Doc Watson. We stayed in a place with
Category: Old-time music
Start Young
If you don’t know who Ricky Skaggs is, then you really don’t know anything about bluegrass and old-time music. It’s
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
Banjo Harmonies
The truth is, the banjo, like all the indigenous music of the South, is another of those curious shadowy meeting
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,
Weather or Not
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”
“Just a Little Talk With Jesus” is a famous old gospel song. Last night, our band, Shades Mountain Air, had
Wade Mainer, Uncle Vance and This Old Guitar
Wade Mainer died this week at the age of 104. A mountain banjo player who came out of the mountains
