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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine December 1976, Volume 11, Number 6 While there are plenty of lightning-quick banjo pickers around, only a handful have directly contributed to the stylistic development of the instrument. Earl Scruggs, of course, is the giant in the field. Scruggs took the raw style he picked up in North Carolina from…

In this fiddle lesson video Mike Mitchell teaches you how to play a fiddle solo to J.D. Crowe’s “Blackjack” based on a Mark O’Connor solo taken from a YouTube video of O’Connor performing the tune in a live show with J.D. Crowe.

This week we feature guitar and bass player Jed Clark.  In our July 2024 issue we include a story about the Indigo Roots Band.  The core of the band is comprised of the three Kelley siblings.  Jed often plays guitar to make up the…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1997, Volume 32, Number 4 After nearly 25 years away from bluegrass, Cliff Waldron has reformed his band. The band features former New Shades of Grass banjoist, Bill Wheeler, and new members Nevin Lambert and Steve Spence on mandolin and bass respectively. The band is playing the same kind…

In this video lesson Dan Miller presents a banjo solo to “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” using a number of the Scruggs style phrases over the G chord that have been presented in the previous videos on building a Scruggs style banjo vocabulary.

This week we featured guitar player, singer and vocal instructor Dede Wyland.  Dede spent years performing with our July 2024 cover story artist in the band Skyline, but she has had a full career in bluegrass both before and after performing in…