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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine December 2008, Volume 43, Number 6 “It’s time for the uneasy listening portion of the evening, when bad things happen to good people.” Mike Henderson grins under the brim of his black cowboy hat and hits a bluesy lick on his Gibson mandolin, surveying the packed-to-the-walls Station Inn. Nashville’s bluegrass…

In this video lesson Dan Miller demonstrates how to create a solo to “Eight More Miles To Louisville” on the mandolin using folded scale patterns to embellish the melody.

This week we are featuring guitar and mandolin player, and singer, James Kee.  Originally from the Chattanooga area of Tennessee, James now lives in Nashville and performs and records with East Nash Grass.  We talk with James about his…

In part 1 of this lesson, Dan Miller demonstrated playing the melody of the tune “Bully of the Town” on guitar. In Part 2, he took that melody and demonstrated how you might use techniques such as chord strums, tremolo, neighboring notes, double stops, toggle notes and cross picking to enhance the melody of the…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 1995, Volume 30, Number 2 There were a couple of directions we could have gone with this album,” says singer/songwriter Kathy Kallick of her current release, “Matters Of The Heart,” on Sugar Hill Records. “We could have done cover tunes, or we could have done a mixture [of covers…

This week we feature guitar and banjo player Ron Block.  Ron is best known for his guitar and banjo work with Alison Krauss and Union Station, but he got his start growing up in southern California, later attending South Plains College and then…