The Sound
Collegiate Bluegrass Programs in Colorado and Tennessee Working Together to Help North Carolina Storm Victims
In many places in the U.S., at most small universities, depending on the location, a full-fledged bluegrass program can be hard to sustain. But, that is exactly what has happened at Colorado College, located near Colorado Springs, Colorado. A private university founded in 1874; Colorado College was created when the so-called “Wild West” period was…
Kenny & Amanda Smith
New Single Resurrects a Lost Classic Bluegrass Song By Richard Hefner The great 1970s Song “Million Lonely Days” by the Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys Becomes New Again The IBMA Award-winning duo of Kenny and Amanda Smith are no strangers to West Virginia. Amanda is a Mountain State native who was raised near Parkersburg. The husband…
Brittany Haas
The Newest Punch Brother For many reasons, bluegrass music is a unique genre amongst the various forms of music performed and recorded in the United States. One reason is that a relatively high percentage of the fans of the music also play the music. At any given bluegrass festival, the main reason many of the attendees…
Holter Pickguards
The Pursuit of a Passion A decade ago Taylor Mullins decided to replace the pickguard on his treasured Takamine dreadnought. Solving that seemingly simple problem subsequently immersed Taylor in a world of celluloid manufacturers, swirl patterning, adhesives, CNCs, and pickguard design – as well as marketing – that has coalesced into Holter Pickguards (www.holterpickguards.com). “I…
Thomm Jutz & Time Stafford
Talk About Their New Album Wall Dogs, and Give Us A Master’s Class in Songwriting For 30 years now, Tim Stafford has been a member of the world-class bluegrass band Blue Highway. Tim has also become one of the best songwriters in the business, winning three International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Songwriter Of The Year…
Kylie Kay Anderson
An American Mandolinist Living, Performing and Teaching in Europe Photoby Mark Evenhuis I found out about Kylie Kay Anderson—a young female mandolin player who originally comes from Utah but now lives in The Netherlands—through a YouTube search. Although I should have known about Kylie (more on that later), I had never heard of her before…