The new single ticks all the boxes for a bluegrass favorite, including a flashy twin banjo solo from Brown and Martin, lyrics that reflect Martin's wry sense of humor and top-flight performances from ...

The Grammy Award-winning bluegrass pioneer died yesterday. He was 89. Stanley spoke to Fresh Air in 2002 about his career and his work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. This is FRESH AIR.

For the best musicians, each playing experience is a foundation for something new. From the earliest lessons to the latest gig, the work informs what is to come. Banjo man Noam Pikelny, who with ...

When Yonder Mountain String Band took the stage in the A&R Music Bar last night, it was constructed like a traditional five-piece bluegrass band with banjo, bass, mandolin, guitar, and fiddle. It was ...

Today, bluegrass has a reputation as one of the most conservative genres of American roots music. A lily-white scene with few people of color, the surface of bluegrass today sometimes shows little ...

Since forming 20 years ago, John Reischman & The Jaybirds have honed their own style of bluegrass, wedding the genre’s characteristic rapid-fire solos and vocal harmonies with an old-time, almost ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A revitalized and rejuvenated Yonder Mountain String Band turned in two triumphant performances at the 2014 Kinfolk Celebration at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, ...