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Features

Tuesday, December 25 2012

The Best Bluegrass of 2012

Any genre as historic as bluegrass will experience undulations in style and popularity, but we’re certainly at an unprecedented peak of interest, if not in traditional bluegrass music, at least in bluegrass-oriented sounds.


Thursday, December 10 2009

The Best Bluegrass of 2009

For bluegrass fans, 2009 was a great year for music, a bad year for frugality. Though we're only listing the Top Ten, there were many excellent artists and albums worthy of a mention.


Reviews

Friday, August 12 2011

Ricky Skaggs: Country Hits Bluegrass Style

It’s almost as if Skaggs is afraid to sound too good, as if the songs are somehow more authentic if played and sung unexceptionally.


Monday, September 14 2009

Ricky Skaggs: Ricky Skaggs Solo: Songs My Dad Loved

You probably couldn’t find an album more heartfelt or more homespun than this one.


Tuesday, September 2 2008

Ricky Skaggs: Best of the Sugar Hill Years

Culled from three decades of albums, the songs on Best of the Sugar Hill Years are simply masterful.


News

Wednesday, January 10 2007

Ricky Skaggs has faith in the pure power of bluegrass

Ricky Skaggs speaks about bluegrass music with an almost evangelical fervor. He plays it that way, too. "The reason God loves bluegrass so much is…


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