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Ronnie Milsap's Final Nashville Show Displays His Broad Musical ImpactThe career of singer-songwriter Ronnie Milsap has been remarkably inclusive from an idiomatic standpoint, even if it's also accurate to say his greatest acclaim has come within country circles. But over the course of five plus decades in the performing and recording arena, Milsap has also toured with James Brown…
PHOTOS: See Pictures from the First Annual Los Angeles Folk FestivalLast weekend, on October 7 and 8, at the Ford in LA – the natural amphitheater nestled between Hollywood and the Valley, just across the 101 from the Hollywood Bowl – echoed the sounds of guitars and vocal harmonies, the acoustic reverberations of the First Annual Los Angeles Folk Festival.…
PHOTOS: Remembering Bluegrass Hall of Famer Bobby OsborneThe bluegrass community is collectively grieving two major losses as both Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne – two revered and iconic Bluegrass Hall of Fame-inducted mandolinists and Grand Ole Opry members who helmed first-generation bluegrass bands with their brothers – have passed on. McReynolds, who was 94, died on Friday,…
Telluride, the Most Beautiful Bluegrass Festival, Turns 50(Editor's Notes: Headline image of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones. Scroll to see a photo gallery. To mark Planet Bluegrass's 50th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, we asked author and music journalist David Menconi to reflect on its impact – and the vibrant community that's grown up around this iconic roots…
DispatchesMar 27, 2017
“This is one of the coolest, kindest, coziest, and vibey-ist things here at SXSW,” Langhorne Slim announced with a grin, as he kicked off this year’s Brooklyn Country Cantina, energizing the packed crowd that had come to enjoy the annual day-long party. The Cantina has been described by fans and musicians, alike, as a pilgrimage,…
DispatchesFeb 28, 2017
Of the three big roots music conferences -- World of Bluegrass, AmericanaFest, and Folk Alliance International -- Folk Alliance demands the most mental musical bandwidth. More than 1,000 musicians were on hand in Kansas City, Missouri, between February 15 and 19, organizing themselves into more than 3,000 individual showcases, designated either “official” (jury-selected for the…
DispatchesNov 3, 2016
The election may currently loom large over America like a toupée-shaped storm cloud, but yesterday, there was one rumor floating around that managed to cut through the noise: Beyoncé might perform at the CMA Awards. Speculation swirled around Nashville and online before it was officially announced late Wednesday afternoon that Queen Bey would, in fact,…
DispatchesJul 15, 2016
Last week, the Bluegrass Situation hopped a flight north to Winnipeg, settling in for a weekend of new sights and good tunes with our kind neighbors up in Canada. The festival, which has been going since its inaugural year in 1974, was kind enough to let us take over a stage and be a part…
DispatchesJun 14, 2016
Anyone turning to music for solace likely found a welcoming home in That Tent, where John Moreland was getting the BGS Stage started with his gut-wrenching Oklahoma Americana. “Well the older I get, truth gets harder to find. And famous false prophets get by off of robbing good men blind,” he sang on “Blacklist,” one of…
