Bluegrass is one of many influencing genres behind modern country music, and quite a few country legends got their musical start in the classic American roots genre. These four legends, in particular, ...

The past few years have brought about a resurgence of the Americana, bluegrass, folk and alt-country genres, and 2017 was a year in which fans saw the fruits of that labor. With newcomers such as ...

This six-piece band from the Virginia-North Carolina border country has seen more than its share of tragedy in the past decade. Last May, Alan Mastin, the band’s bass player for 21 years, died in a ...

Ricky Skaggs was seen as a rebel for switching from country music to bluegrass in the mid-'90s. In reality, he's a picker at heart, and country fans were lucky to have him on the radio during his run ...

Ricky Skaggs' career has come full circle in recent years as the versatile entertainer returned to the bluegrass music of his roots after a long, successful run in the mainstream country arena. Skaggs ...

Bluestone has been together more than 20 years. Members are Carroll Swam (guitar/lead vocals), Dick Laird (mandolin/tenor), Heath Laird (acoustic bass & bass), Russ Hooper (dobro), Jeff Laird (2nd ...

Colorado is the leading dealer in the sounds of upbeat and stretched-out bluegrass. The past five decades have seen dozens of string bands rear their sounds from the Centennial State, everyone from ...

At 90 years old, It may be hard to believe that Willie Nelson hasn't completely crossed off his musical bucket list, but the country legend is about to check off another career achievement. On Sept.

“Country music and bluegrass music are not the same thing,” said 14-time Grammy Award winner Ricky Skaggs, who plays a free show at Copper Country Sunday afternoon with his band, Kentucky Thunder.

There’s a strange problem plaguing country music these days, and it’s not the perpetual lameness of country radio. The country purists—those twang nostalgists who are fueling the O, Brother phenomenon ...

Tommy Sells was 29 and had never been involved in music when a fellow coon hunter inspired him to learn the mandolin and start a band. That hunting buddy was Jimmy Martin, often called the “King of ...

Buck White, the patriarch of country and bluegrass music group The Whites, died Monday, Jan. 13 at age 94. White’s daughters Sharon, Cheryl, Rosie and Melissa said in a statement: “The Lord answered ...