Search Results:

Jason Carter is the longtime fiddle player and support vocalist with the Del McCoury Band, founding member of the Travelin’ McCourys and five-time IBMA “Fiddle Player of the Year” award-winner.  And as a bandleader in his own right, he’s hit another grand slam. Informed by Carter’s rich and deeply expressive baritone and his nonpareil fiddle…

It’s always nice when a familiar bluegrass face that’s been lying low for a while returns to the scene.  Well-regarded Darren Beachley, who pulled service with Bill Harrell and The Virginians, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver and fronted his own Legends of the Potomac (as well as some other groups) is back with a new album….

This talented Arkansas duo masterfully inhabits an antediluvian musical “folk, bluegrass, Americana” realm similar to that of, say, Norman Blake. This fine 10-song collection magically revisits American styles that were popular in the 18th and early 20th centuries. Brad Apple’s and Pam Setser’s self-titled album (produced by Apple) opens with a smooth-as-silk rendition of “Hand…

Joe K. Walsh, who has collaborated with everyone from the Gibson Brothers to Darol Anger, is, to use a well-worn cliché, a musicians’ musician. He is a world-class mandolin player and accomplished composer and arranger whose formative influences run the gambit from Del McCoury to David Grisman. Walsh, who serves on the faculty of the…

Queries Q: The title track to the Gillis Brothers and their Hard-Driving Bluegrass Band’s second CD, “Ice Cold Stone” (Hay Holler HHH-CD-302, 1992), is somewhat of a mystery. Larry and John Gillis learned the song at a jam session and label owner Kerry Hay, who helped arrange it for the album, was unable to trace…

Mickey Galyean hails from Low Gap, Surry County, North Carolina. He is the son of Cullen Galyean whose deep bluegrass legacy helped form young Mickey’s music. Galyean formed the Cullen’s Bridge band to continue and honor the traditional mountain music that has become his own style.  On this project, Galyean (guitar, vocals), is joined by…