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Austin Scelzo sent us a one hour lesson teaching a step-by-step method for how to learn to hear chord changes. We’ve divided this lesson up into several sections and are posting them over the course of several weeks. This is the fourth installment in the lesson series and works with three chord songs.

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 1991, Volume 25, Number 12 “If only all those country (or pop or rock) fans who say they don’t like bluegrass would just give it a listen, they’d love it.” “If only the mass media would give bluegrass some positive exposure…” Those of us who care about bluegrass are…

This week we feature bass player, singer and songwriter Reed Jones.  Reed played in Audie Blaylock’s band, Redline, prior to Audie’s untimely passing.  He recently teamed up with a special group of musicians who were friends and…

Country Music Foundation Press, 2024 Geoffrey Himes has written about music for the Washington Post, Smithsonian magazine, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Jazz Times, and Sing Out since the late 1970s, as well as a book about Bruce Springsteen. He was a contributing editor at No Depression from the late 1990s  through the early 2000s, and his articles have…

Mason Via’s arrival on the scene as a solo artist has caused quite a stir, and deservedly so. He has an expressive and engaging tenor voice and a penchant for poignant original love songs with adroit lyrics and nearly irresistible hooks. The North Carolina native is an alumnus of Old Crow Medicine Show and his…

Strengeplukk  (“string plucking”) is the newest release from this talented band based in Stavanger, Norway. They consist of Andreas Barnes Onarhiem (mandolin, vocals), Jakob Folke Ossum (guitar, vocals), Mikael Jonassen (banjo, vocals), Nikolai Storevik (fiddle, vocals), and Vidar Starheimsaeter (bass, vocals). Formed in 2015, the group has become one of Norway’s top bluegrass bands combining…