Ted Lehmann

Somewhere last night, a child was born while his dad was at a gig. A wife worried at home, anxious about her husband on the road. A teenage boy looked into the stands to see if his father had managed to get to the big game. A daughter wished she

Dan Tyminski comes from Rutland, VT, where he was born in 1967 and grew up listening to bluegrass music with his dad. Rutland would seem a strange place for the birthplace of one of bluegrass music’s central musicians, but only to people unfamiliar with the paths followed by bluegrass

This is the story of a boy, a banjo, and a career. Carl Jackson, singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, entrepreneur, producer, and musical polymath. It traces its roots to Louisville, Mississippi, where Jackson was born in 1953, through a stint with classic bluegrass greats Jim & Jesse McReynolds beginning when he was

Recently I wrote a review of Holly Gleason’s marvelous new book, Woman Walk the Line, a collection of essays written by 27 highly accomplished women writing about 27 female country artists. These fairly compact essays vividly present the the impact the performers’ music and lives had upon the writer

The Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 will be making a 50th anniversary appearance at the International Bluegrass Music Association's Wide Open Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC, next month. Recently, my wife and I sat down with Akira Otsuka, mandolin player with this groundbreaking international band. In the post-World War

Bluegrass, like any musical genre, has its roots deep in the culture that nurtured and grew it. As it grows, it seeks to maintain those roots while remaining alert to its commercial opportunities. But like the rest of the world, emerging technologies, changing demographic factors, and popular tastes have their