Imparting enthusiasm and fresh perspectives into a very old genre of music—and in a manner that imparts that invigoration into the audience themselves—Bronwyn puts her signature stamp on bluegrass with new album “Rattlin’ Bones.”
This marked DelFest’s 18th year since its inception in 2008, and founder Del McCoury and his family continue to bring in arguably one of the finest festival line-ups year after year.
Some fans of country revivalist Zach Top were rendered crestfallen earlier this week when Zach’s rhythm guitar player and harmony singer Cheyenne Dalton Meyer revealed that she had been let go from the band.
Get ready to get your Del on. Originally founded in 2008 by bluegrass legend Del McCoury, the festival has emerged in recent years as one of the premier festivals in bluegrass and roots music.
On Thursday evening (9-18), Billy Strings walked away with the coveted Entertainer of the Year at the IBMA Awards. But one of the biggest conversation pieces from the entire event was Billy’s keynote address.
In as titanic of a move as you will ever hear about in the world of bluegrass, fiddle player Jason Carter is leaving the Del McCoury Band to pursue a solo career after 33 years by Del McCoury’s side.
Even Billy Strings himself admits openly that the best way to imbibe in his music is in the live setting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t get into the studio between shows and see what kind of trouble he can get into.
Dierks Bentley took the stage at the 50th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival with his new bluegrass band Long Jon.
How much does the listening public care about a batch of ol’ stuffy bluegrass cover songs? Apparently quite a bit when they’re coming from Billy Strings. His recent collaboration with his dad Terry Barber has brought in career-record numbers for the bluegrass phenom, and put him at or near the top of charts.
If there was an ideal time for Billy Strings to hop off the bluegrass train, it would be right now. So what does he do to codify his dominance of the live music space? He goes off and records the most straightforward album of bluegrass and country standards as possible, and invites his father.
We knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. Though we all have fallen in love with bluegrass phenom Billy Strings as he’s taken the roots music world by storm to the point where his popularity has spilled out into the greater music landscape, you knew that sooner or later he would jump the bluegrass tracks…