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This dazzling live album doesn’t just capture an immensely accomplished musical ensemble in full court press. It also serves as a sort of ad hoc “best of” from Tyminski’s storied career as both a solo artist and as long-time singer-guitarist-mandolinist with Alison Krauss and Union Station.  Additionally, with originals such as “God Fearing Heathen,” “Goat,”…

Photos by Emma McCoury If you have been to a Del McCoury Band show in the past several years, you may have noticed a young man standing in the back playing the guitar and wondered about him and his relationship to the band.  This young guitar picker happens to be Ronnie McCoury’s oldest son, Heaven….

Cutting Their Own Grade on the Bluegrass Parkway When the Travelin’ McCourys were formed almost a decade and a half ago, the thought that crossed everyone’s mind was that Del McCoury was now in his 70s and was needing, and deserving of, a less hectic schedule on the bluegrass trail.  Not only had Del been…

Becoming a Part of the McCoury Family Photo by Allen Clark With the release of their latest album Between The Lines, Lauren and Leanna Price have recorded a project that they feel truly captures where they are right now on their musical journey. With Ronnie McCoury producing, and their band with them in the studio, the Price…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimted Magazine August 1994, Volume 29, Number 2 Perhaps it was just ordinary human courtesy, but then again…My wife had accidentally locked our keys in our car while we were at the Jim and Jesse Bluegrass Festival near Elizabethton, Tenn., in June 1993. Our 16-month-old son, Daniel, had a slight fever and…

At the end of May, Jacob Jolliff released his latest album, Instrumentals, Vol. 2: Mandolin Mysteries on Adhyaropa Records. If you are familiar with Jolliff, you have probably listened to Instrumentals, Vol. 1, released in 2018 when Jolliff was a youthful 27 years old. Now in his mid-thirties, this new album of originals reflects Jolliff’s…