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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 2010, Volume 44, Number 12 The Travelin’ McCourys have a couple things they’d like you to know. First, despite rumors, Del is alive and well and not planning to retire for a long, long time. Second, they’re getting tired of those “Del-less” McCoury Band jokes. It all started a…

In part 1 of this lesson, Dan Miller demonstrated playing the melody to the tune “Bully of the Town” on guitar. Here, in Part 2, he takes that melody and demonstrates how you might use techniques such as chord strums, tremolo, neighboring notes, double stops, toggle notes and cross picking to enhance the melody of…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine January 1985, Volume 19, Number 7 In terms of superior musicianship, highly skilled vocal arrangements and broad audience appeal, the Virginia Squires are absolutely unsurpassed as a contemporary bluegrass show band and a tough act to follow in any musical environment. Members of the Virginia Squires describe their music as…

In this video Dan Miller demonstrates a melody oriented arrangement of “Bully of the Town” on the guitar. Tablature is available at the Bluegrass Unlimited website lessons page.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Phil Rosenthal.  Phil is best known in bluegrass for his time spent as a member of the Seldom Scene in the 1980s.  He has continued to perform and record music since that time…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine December 1994, Volume 29, Number 6 The Seldom Scene got together with the avowed purpose of “playing for fun,” the band’s bio reads. “Yet, with this band’s tremendous aggregation of talent, it’s hardly surprising that what started as their ‘weekly card game’ soon became a sustaining career.” Twenty-three years later,…