The music drifted down from Appalachia, from the front porches of English and Scottish immigrants who plucked and strummed the string instruments of their homelands. Along the way, someone added ...
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I drove through the Virginia towns that created Appalachian music—here’s what I saw and heard
The songs created in southwestern Virginia spawned bluegrass and country, and they still live on in these rolling hills.
If you’ve never seen or heard Billy Strings and his band, you might initially mistake them for a traditional bluegrass unit. The instruments are what you’d expect—banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass and ...
DelFest, the annual event hosted by Del McCoury, is often described as a bluegrass festival, even though only a minority of the acts are traditional bluegrass bands. Many a casual observer assumes ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. An acoustic guitar is usually a staple of a mellow show, but Billy Strings shredded ...
Hopping off the tailgate of his Sprinter touring van, Billy Strings readies himself for a rollicking set at the inaugural Railbird festival in Lexington, Kentucky. The six-string virtuoso grabs his ...
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