It’s early evening in Asheville, North Carolina, and Sierra Hull, the singer, songwriter, and mandolin virtuoso, is standing in Studio A on the third floor of the Citizen Vinyl record-pressing plant ...
The Bluegrass Hall of Fame member played fast without sacrificing the genre's melodic core, and improvised with a sense of humor. By Steve Knopper In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill ...
It’s been a busy year for Sierra Hull who has spent much of it criss-crossing the country on tour. Now, with 2025 drawing to a close, she’s finally been able to catch her breath and look back at some ...
Fender introduced its Paramount Series for discriminating acoustic players at Winter NAMM 2016, and the company has been busy updating and augmenting it in 2022. Fender started off the year with three ...
Frank Wakefield, an innovative bluegrass mandolinist who expanded the instrument’s range, died Friday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at the age of 89. Watch "Blues Stay Away from Me - Frank ...
A bluegrass innovator, he recorded numerous albums as a leader, and his list of collaborators included both Leonard Bernstein and Jerry Garcia. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren reports on ...
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. When large numbers of students from Spain arrived in New York in 1880, they introduced the American public to a new instrument the ...
Bluegrass musician John Reischman has mastered the art of the mandolin, a small stringed instrument with a round back and a unique quality, which he says evolves the more it's played. Plucking away as ...