Dave Higgs

They’re icons, members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Honor, the Prairie Music Hall of Fame, the Mariposa Hall of Fame, the Order of Canada and singers of what the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named the greatest Canadian song of all time. They’ve been a huge influence across three […]

We’ll continue our fond look back at 2019 by highlighting award winners, Hall of Fame inductees and number one songs. Joe Mullins, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, High Fidelity, Jerry Salley, Larry Cordle, Cane Mill Road and Alan Bibey will be purveying peer-approved, trophy scoring, bluegrassical excellence.

We’ll home in on some of the bluegrassical highlights of 2020, of which there are legion. With the contributions of Sideline, the Farm Hands, Missy Raines, Claire Lynch and Dale Ann Bradley, we’ll be checking out number one songs, award winners, notable achievements, milestones and other general ephus.

We’re finishing off what has turned into a seven-part series on the bluegrassical doin’s of 1979 when, among other things in December of that year: Eleven people are trampled to death at a Who concert in Cincinnati; Star Trek — the Motion Picture, the first movie of the franchise starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy […]

They symbolize what the Christmas spirit is all about — heavenly peace, tidings of comfort and joy, being with loved ones, the giving of gifts and the birth of Jesus. No matter how they’re decorated, whether they’re real or not, whatever their size and shape, nothing says “Merry” more than a festively festooned Christmas tree.

It’s a word that can mean morally wrong, slightly bad (but kind of cool) or even – incomprehensibly – excellent. With such a messed up word that can go either way, it’s no wonder it crops up frequently in bluegrass songs. With the musical machinations of Hammertowne, Lester Flatt, Charlie Sizemore, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, […]

We’ll be giving new meaning to the term “deep dive” as we continue our exploration of what’s new in the bluegrass CD bins. And there’s a log — over 60 late breaking releases worthy of your consideration. We got to only 15 of them last week. So we’ve got our work cut out for us. […]