Bluegrass Unlimited's Podcast

This week we feature Rick Faris. In addition to being a great singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Rick is also a talented guitar builder and has recently moved to Owensboro, Kentucky to build guitars at the Kentucky Guitar Works. We talk with Rick about growing up in a family bluegrass band, his years with Special Consensus, going out with is own band and building guitars.

This week we feature bass player March Schatz. For anyone who has been around bluegrass music for a while, Mark is no stranger. Throughout his career he has played with many of the top bluegrass artists. He started with bands like Tasty Licks and Spectrum and also spent time with Tony Rice, Tim O'Brien, Nickel Creek and Claire Lynch. Most recently he has been out on the road with Bela Fleck as part of the My Bluegrass Heart tour.

This week we feature banjo player BB Bowness. Originally from New Zealand, BB is a founding member of the band Mile 12. Among other things, we'll talk with BB about how she became interested in the banjo, how she learned how to play and her approach to teaching students.

This week we feature mandolin player David Benedict. David is known for his work with the band Mile 12 and is currently recording and performing with his wife Tabitha in The Foreign Landers. He is also known in the mandolin world for his long running weekly YouTube series Mandolin Mondays.

This week we feature fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes. Currently Bronwyn plays the fiddle for Molly Tuttle's band Golden Highway. We talk with Bronwyn about the band's great success over the past few years, their 2024 Grammy win and Bronwyn's new solo album.

This week's podcast features banjo legend Larry McNeely. McNeely famously played with Roy Acuff for many years on the Grand Ole Opry and is also well known for performing with Glen Campbell. Larry shares the details of his long career as a bluegrass banjo player in this week's podcast.

This week we feature Travis Book, the bass player for the Infamous Stringdusters. Jerry Garcia is on the cover of our March 2024 issue and many of today's bluegrass musicians have been influenced by the music of The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia. Travis Book is one of them. We talk about Travis' bluegrass journey and the Garcia influence.

This week we are talking with guitar player Eric Thompson. Jerry Garcia is on the cover of the March 2024 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited and Eric performed in a band with Jerry prior to Garcia forming The Grateful Dead. We talk with Eric about his long career in music and his days performing with Garcia.

This week we are talking with Chris Joslin, the Executive Director of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum about some exciting events and projects that are coming up this year at the museum and at other locations in and around Owensboro, Kentucky. This includes a special Jerry Garcia exhibit at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the ROMP festival, The Kentucky Guitar Works and more.

This week we feature guitar player and singer Jimmy Haley. This month Terry Baucom is on the cover of Bluegrass Unlimited and Jimmy, along with Terry Baucom, was famously an original member of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. He later also performed with Terry in the band Baucom Bibey Graham & Haley. We talk with Jimmy about his career in bluegrass and his relationship with Terry Baucom.

This week we feature guitar player, singer and songwriter Wes Golding. Since Terry Baucom is on the cover of our February 2024 issue, we are talking with musicians this month who have performed with Terry over the years and Wes is someone who has known Terry since they were teenagers and Wes was in the band Boone Creek with Terry. We talk with Wes about his career in bluegrass and his work with Terry in Boone Creek.

This week we feature fiddler Mike Hartgrove. Terry Baucom is on the cover of our February 2024 issue and Mike spent time in a few bands with Terry over the years. We'll talk to Mike about his career in bluegrass, his time spent with Terry Baucom and his fiddle set-up and repair business. I hope you enjoy the Mike Hartgrove podcast.

This week we feature Bill Amatneek, the author of the new book Discovering Tony Rice. Bluegrass Unlimited ran excerpts from Bill's book in our December 2023 and January 2024 issues. We talk with Bill about his time spent with Tony Rice in the David Grisman Quintet and the writing of his new book.

This week we feature Dudley Connell. A founding member of the Johnson Mountain Boys and a long-time member of the Seldom Scene, Dudley talks about his career in bluegrass music and updates us on what the Seldom Scene is up to in 2024.

This week we feature C.J. Lewandowski, the mandolin player with the Po' Ramblin' Boys. C.J. was working on a recording project with Bobby Osborne at the time of Bobby's passing. We talk about that project and about C.J.'s friendship with Bobby Osborne. We also discuss the latest from the Po' Ramblin' Boys and C.J.'s acquisition of his Lloyd Loar mandolin.

This week we feature fiddler, singer and songwriter Laura Orshaw. We talk with Laura about her early life in bluegrass, her work with the Po' Ramblin' Boys and her latest solo projects.

This week we feature Danny Roberts, the Grascals' mandolin player. Danny has been working on a new solo album, the Grascals are also working on a new album for their 20th anniversary year in 2024, and Danny keeps busy when he is off ther road reparing and setting up mandolins. We'll talk about all of that and more on this edition of the Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine podcast.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jody Stecher. Jody has a new album out with the band Mile 12. The album is titled Mile 77. We talk with Jody about his long career in music and about the new album. You'll also hear a couple of cuts from the record.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and guitar player Jim Lauderdale. Jim has recently put out an album with the Po' Ramblin' Boys. We talk with Jim about his long career in music which includes recording with bluegrass legends like Ralph Stanley and winning two Grammy awards. We will also discuss his success as a songwriter in country and bluegrass music, his recording with the Po' Ramblin' Boys, and much more.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and fiddler Corrina Rose Logston Stephens. Corrina and her husband, Jeremy Stephens, are in the band High Fidelity and they both also spent time performing with Jesse McReynolds. Since Jim & Jesse are on our cover this month (December 2023), we thought it would be nice to talk with Corrina about her time performing with Jesse and find out what High Fidelity has been up to lately. You will also hear some music from High Fidelity.