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In the early 70's when country icon Willie Nelson was looking to challenge the Nashville establishment's lock on country music, he organically formed what came to be called his 'Family Band."  It consisted of two drummers, one being Paul English, bassist Bee Spears (who

Jeff Austin's career path was set. He was going to a college conservatory of music, taking acting and dance, and auditioning for shows. Next stop: Broadway. Then, after 100 or so Grateful Dead shows, he decided he'd rather play in a band. Trouble was, he barely

Barry McGuire's film career was, thankfully, a short one. With titles like Werewolves on Wheels, there wasn't much to brag about. But, his one close-up extended role in 1967's The President's Analyst offers an opportunity to see through a time capsule

“Play it like it was wrote, boys,” Bill Monroe said. “We never verbalized about an arrangement and the only requirement for a song to be in the band repertoire was that one person could perform it all the way through.” John Hartford said. John who?The Father of Newgrass. The

There is a valley deep in the Cumberland mountains of Eastern Kentucky where, during the early part of the 20th century, no radio signal could reach. In the 1920's the people had no other resource than to sing the songs taught to them by their ancestors who had

If Amanda Shires is the perfect example of writing what you know, there just might be a box set equivalent of James Joyce’s greatest hits waiting just around the corner. Now the transplanted Texan fiddler who’s writing up a storm these days in Nashville might admit that’s