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Bryan Sutton & Billy Strings
Two Masters of Flatpicking Join Forces Photos by Joshua Black Wilkins Years ago I wrote an article about Norman Blake and stated that if there were a Mt. Rushmore for flatpicking guitar, the players whose faces would be carved in that mountain would be Doc Watson, Clarence White, Dan Crary, Norman Blake and Tony Rice….
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Driving Down the Road of Her Dreams
Photo by Laci Mack Ashleigh Graham is a new source of inspiration in the bluegrass music world that has been a lifetime in the making. Originally, her desire was to follow her heart in music, but life took a detour, sending her on the practical journey of marriage and motherhood. Along the way, she battled…
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Marty Falle’s Blueprint for Bluegrass Success
When Marty Falle writes, he thinks in records, not singles. “That’s what I believe the original singer-songwriter artist is all about,” he says. His formula, which works for him, is “to write the record: write what’s in your heart, in your experience.” To judge by the radio play and the number of tracks charting off…
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Jake Howard
Mandolin Ambassador While I was browsing YouTube a while back, I ran across a video titled “Mandolin (small…but MIGHTY).” At the opening of the video, Jake Howard of Henhouse Prowlers was blazing through a mandolin solo. Rob Scallon, the video’s host and interviewer, was sitting next to Jake and playing the guitar. Two members of…
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from the archives
Who In The World Are The Bluegrass Cardinals?
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1976, Volume 10, Number 11 As I sat in my car across the street from the Fifth String on North High Street in Columbus, Ohio, it occurred to me that bluegrass had come a long way there in the years since I’d left town. In the early sixties you…
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