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Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
In this weekly podcast Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine editor, Dan Miller, interviews bluegrass musicians. Both the new up-and-coming artists and the bluegrass legends are featured.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jen Larson
This week we fearure singer Jen Larson and talk with her work as the manager of the archives at the Grand Ole Opry and her approach to teaching vocal lessons. She will be one of the vocal instructors at Bluegrass Unlimited’s workshop weekend in February 2025, which will be hosted by the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
55:4921/11/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Tim May
This week we feature multi-instrumentalist Tim May. Tim spent fifteen years performing with the band Crucial Smith and has also toured with Patty Loveless, John Cowan, Eddie Rabbit, Rodney Dillard, Kathy Mattea and many others. Tim is also a popular instructor at music workshops and camps and has produced a number of instructional books and videos.
55:1314/11/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Kenny Kosek
This week we feature fiddler Kenny Kosek. Kenny has played for many great bands over the years, including Country Cooking and Breakfast Special back in the early 1970s, and also has produced instructional books and videos that are popular amongst bluegrass fiddlers. He now has a new album out titled Twisted Sage. We’ll talk about the new album and also play a cut off of the record.
01:10:1107/11/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Gena Britt
This week we feature banjo player Gena Britt. We speak with Gena about her many years in bluegrass music. We talk about how she got started, the many bands that she has performed with over the years and her current job with Sister Sadie.
01:01:5931/10/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Steve Thomas
This week we feature fiddler Steve Thomas and talk with him about his years playing bluegrass with legends such as Jim & Jesse, The Osborne Brothers and The Whites, plus his work with a number of country music stars. We will also talk about his current job with the new all-star bluegrass band Southern Legacy and his own band Steve Thomas & The Time Machine.
01:04:4124/10/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Rebecca Frazier
This week we feature singer, songwriter and guitar picker Rebecca Frazier and talk with her about her new album on Compass Records called Boarding Windows in Paradise. First we’ll talk with Rebecca about her bluegrass and flatpicking guitar journey and then we’ll talk about the recording and hear several cuts from the album.
01:25:1317/10/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jerry Douglas
This week we feature legendary Dobro player Jerry Douglas. Jerry not only was recently inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, but his band has a new album out titled The Set. We talk with Jerry about his career in bluegrass, the Hall of Fame induction and the new recording.
01:09:4210/10/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Chris Warner
This week we feature banjo player Chris Warner. We talk with Chris about the two periods of time that he spent with Jimmy Martin and also discuss his performing with Del McCoury, Tom Adams, Audie Blaylock and others. We also talk about Chris’ time as a music store owner and instrument repairman.
56:0803/10/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Bill Clifton
This week we feature 93-year-old bluegrass, folk and country music legend Bill Clifton. Bill has had an amazing career in bluegrass music both in the United States and Europe. We talk with Bill about his career in bluegrass and also about his friendships with such music legends as A.P. Carter and Woody Guthrie. This one runs longer than most of our podcasts, but with Bill having such a long career, we went ahead and let this one run long.
02:05:3125/09/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jerry McCoury
This week we feature Del McCoury’s brother, bass and guitar player Jerry McCoury. In addition to spending time performing and recording with Del, Jerry has played music with a impressive list of other bluegrass greats—including Red Allen and Reno & Smiley. We talk with Jerry about his time performing with those bands and more.
54:2219/09/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Ronnie McCoury
This week we feature mandolin master Ronnie McCoury and talk with him about his many years playing with his father Del and his work with The Travelin’ McCourys. We’ll also talk about his mandolin heroes, his many IBMA awards, and the latest Del McCoury Band project.
01:18:1412/09/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Dan Tyminski
This week we feature Dan Tyminski and talk to him about his new live album and the Dan Tyminski Band. We will also talk to Dan about how he got started in bluegrass and his years with the Lonesome River Band and Alison Krauss and Union Station. You will also hear several cuts from the new record.
01:29:5905/09/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Aaron McDaris
This week we feature Rhonda Vincent’s banjo player Aaron McDaris. We’ll talk about the various bands that Aaron has played in over the years, his purchase of the "Rocky Top" banjo from Sonny Osborne, the time he has spent in Rhonda’s band and his acquisition of the Starvey Creek Bluegrass Festival.
01:02:3629/08/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Randy Lanham
This week we feature fiddle player Randy Lanham. Randy is the Education Director at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum located in Owensboro, Kentucky. I’ll talk with Randy about his career performing music and we will discuss all of the in-person and online opportunities that he makes available through the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
55:4022/08/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Wayne Taylor
This week we feature Blue Highway’s bass player and lead singer Wayne Taylor. We talk about Wayne’s early years in bluegrass, his 30 years performing and recording with Blue Highway, the newest Blue Highway recording and the Blue Highway festival.
01:00:5815/08/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Daniel Grindstaff
This week we feature banjo player Daniel Grindstaff and talk with him about his newest album Heroes and Friends. Early in his career Daniel played with several of the first generation bluegrass legends, such as Jim & Jesse and The Osborne Brothers. He has also been on the road with Marty Raybon and with Marty’s brother Tim. We will talk about his time spent with those bands and will discuss some details about the new album. You’ll also hear some cuts from the album.
01:19:3208/08/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Darin and Brooke Aldridge
This week we feature Darin and Brooke Aldridge. We talk with them about their careers in bluegrass music, how they met, their recordings, performances and songwriting and their latest album titled Talk of the Town. During the podcast you’ll have the chance to hear a few cuts from the album.
01:07:5201/08/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Keith Little
This week we feature multi-instrumentalist and singer Keith Little. We talk with Keith about his long career in bluegrass starting on the west coast playing with Vern and Ray and various other California bands, then working with the Country Gentlemen, going to Nashville to work with Ricky Skaggs and Dolly Parton and then back out west to work with David Grisman and Peter Rowan.
01:25:5625/07/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jim VanCleve
This week we feature fiddle player Jim VanCleve. We talk with Jim about his early days in Florida, his work with bands like Lou Reid and Carolina, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Mountain Heart and the Appalachian Road Show. We also discuss his mentoring of the young band Indigo Roots, who are featured in our July 2024 issue.
01:02:5518/07/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jed Clark
This week we feature guitar and bass player Jed Clark. In our July 2024 issue we include a story about the Indigo Roots Band. The core of the band is comprised of the three Kelley siblings. Jed often plays guitar to make up the fourth member of the band. We talk with Jed about his early days in Arkansas performing with his brother Harry and the many bands he has performed with in Nashville.
58:2310/07/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Dede Wyland
This week we featured guitar player, singer and vocal instructor Dede Wyland. Dede spent years performing with our July 2024 cover story artist in the band Skyline, but she has had a full career in bluegrass both before and after performing in that band. She is also a well-known vocal instructor. We talk with Dede about her career in bluegrass music and her current bands and projects.
57:4304/07/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Alan O'Bryant
This week we feature banjo player, singer and songwriter Alan O'Bryant of the Nashville Bluegrass Band. We talk with Alan about his early days in North Carolina, his move to Nashville and early experiences there working with James Monroe, his years with the Nashville Bluegrass Band and then we move on to talk about his current musical endeavours.
01:23:3926/06/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Terry Eldredge
This week we feature singer, guitar player and bass player Terry Eldredge. Terry has had a long career in bluegrass and has spent time in bands with a number of our first generation bluegrass heroes. He was also a founding member of The Sidemen and The Grascals. He is currently performing with The Farm Hands. We talk with Terry about the many aspects of his very interesting career in bluegrass music.
52:5820/06/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jon Randall
This week we feature singer, songwriter, producer and guitar player Jon Randall. Jon will be best known to bluegrass fans as a member of Emmylou Harris' band and then as a member of the Sam Bush Band. He is also a very successful songwriter and producer in Nashville and back in 2010 he produced a bluegrass album for our June 2024 cover story artist Dierks Bentley.
58:2013/06/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jesse Brock
This week we feature mandolin player Jesse Brock. Jesse is currently a member of Authentic Unlimited and the band has two new albums out. We talk with Jesse about his career leading up to performing with Authentic Unlimited and you'll have a chance to hear a few tracks from the band's new recordings.
01:16:0006/06/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Todd Phillips
This week we feature bass player Todd Phillips. Todd has had a long career in acoustic music performing with many legendary musicians such as David Grisman, Tony Rice and Joan Baez. He was also a member of the Bluegrass Album Band and currently performs with the Appalachian Road Show. We talk with Todd about many aspects of his career in bluegrass in this week's podcast.
01:12:2729/05/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Peter McLaughlin
The week we feature guitar player and songwriter Peter McLaughlin. Peter started his bluegrass career in the Washington, D.C. area and has now lived in Tucson, Arizona for many years. He has been active in the bluegrass music scene in the southwest for decades. We'll talk with Peter about his work with Laurie Lewis, The Perfect Strangers, Chris Brashear, the Sonoran Dogs and more.
57:1923/05/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Alison Brown
This week we are talking with banjo player and record label owner Alison Brown. We talk with Alison about her career in music, starting with how she became interested in the banjo and her early days in southern California up to her recent recordings with Steve Martin. We will also discuss her thirty years as a record label owner and talk about what is new in bluegrass from Compass Records.
01:03:1615/05/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Grace van't Hof
This week we feature banjo player Grace van't Hof. Our May 2024 issue features Chris Jones on the cover and Grace currently plays banjo with Chris Jones and the Night Drivers. We talk with Grace about learning to play the banjo, her professional bluegrass journey, her love of old country music and the other unique instrument that she plays with the band, which is not quite a baritone uke and not quite a tenor guitar.
01:11:5208/05/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Rick Faris
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.
01:07:5401/05/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Mark Schatz
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.
01:29:1325/04/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with BB Bowness
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.
01:00:5917/04/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with David Benedict
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.
01:03:5910/04/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
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.
59:2002/04/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Larry McNeely
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.
01:12:0825/03/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Travis Book
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.
01:02:0819/03/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Eric Thompson
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.
01:11:1013/03/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Chris Joslin
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.
01:07:4207/03/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jimmy Haley
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.
01:08:3729/02/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Wes Golding
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.
58:2521/02/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Mike Hartgrove
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.
52:4414/02/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Bill Amatneek
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.
58:2606/02/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Dudley Connell
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.
01:02:3430/01/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with C.J. Lewandowski
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.
01:18:3723/01/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Laura Orshaw
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.
01:15:2116/01/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Danny Roberts
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.
55:1909/01/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jody Stecher
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.
01:18:5202/01/2024
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jim Lauderdale
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.
01:18:1729/12/2023
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Corrina Rose Logston Stephens
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.
01:09:4119/12/2023
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Buddy Griffin
. This week we feature fiddle and banjo player Buddy Griffin. Jim & Jesse McReynolds are on the cover of our December 2023 issue and as part of his long and distinguished bluegrass career Buddy performed with Jim & Jesse, and continued to perform with Jesse after Jim's passing. At the same time he performed with Jesse, Buddy was also performing with Bobby Osbourne. Since the bluegrass world lost both Jesse & Bobby this year, we felt it was a great time to feature Buddy on the podcast and talk with him about working with both of these bluegrass legends.
01:05:5212/12/2023