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The New Tina Adair
Photos by Sophia Sharp Bluegrass vocalist/mandolinist Tina Adair has a new perspective on life since gracing the cover of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine in April 2023. While the physical evidence is apparent, the Grammy-nominated singer also underwent a metamorphosis that transformed her mental and emotional well-being, too. Adair’s successful weight loss journey has also had a…
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Yonder Mountain String Band
True to themselves and Good as True Through their quarter-century together as a band, Yonder Mountain String Band has kicked down the door for string bands and redefined what is possible for acoustic groups in an electrified rock ‘n’ roll world. Yonder emerged from the mountains of Nederland, Colorado in 1998 when guitarist Adam Aijala,…
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Trey Hensley
Couldn’t Outrun The Blues If He Tried Blues and bluegrass go together like bourbon and branch water, and Trey Hensley fully embraces that musical connection. Nearly everything he’s done since starting out confirms that the blues and its kissin’ cousins, deep country and bluegrass, provide the foundation for his rootsy, fresh-from-the-mill bluegrass vocals and major…
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Celebrates 60 Years As the majority of bluegrass fans know, bluegrass music—as we know it today—was born the first time that Bill Monroe walked out on the Grand Ole Opry stage with Earl Scruggs as a member of his band in December of 1945. Early in 1946, the “classic” bluegrass band—consisting of Bill Monroe, Chubby…
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from the archives
Bobby Atkins—A Rededication to Bluegrass
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 1985, Volume 20, Number 2 Photographs, albums, and posters crowd the walls of the hand-built frame structure that once housed Bobby Atkins’ Stokes Recording Studio in Summerfield, ten miles northwest of Greensboro, North Carolina. Atkins’ career has included three stints with Bill Monroe, ten albums of his own, radio,…