Bluegrass Unlimited's Podcast
189 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn 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.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Mark Schatz
April 25, 2024 04:12 - 1 hour - 103 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with BB Bowness
April 17, 2024 16:18 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with David Benedict
April 10, 2024 16:22 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
April 02, 2024 14:19 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Larry McNeely
March 25, 2024 13:45 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Travis Book
March 19, 2024 17:22 - 1 hour - 72 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Eric Thompson
March 13, 2024 15:44 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Chris Joslin
March 07, 2024 13:46 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jimmy Haley
February 29, 2024 04:48 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Wes Golding
February 21, 2024 17:26 - 58 minutes - 67.7 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Mike Hartgrove
February 14, 2024 23:56 - 52 minutes - 61.7 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Bill Amatneek
February 06, 2024 15:26 - 58 minutes - 67.6 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Dudley Connell
January 30, 2024 03:39 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with C.J. Lewandowski
January 23, 2024 16:24 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Laura Orshaw
January 16, 2024 17:05 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Danny Roberts
January 09, 2024 14:58 - 55 minutes - 64.1 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jody Stecher
January 02, 2024 03:12 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jim Lauderdale
December 29, 2023 10:02 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Corrina Rose Logston Stephens
December 19, 2023 00:14 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBThis 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.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Buddy Griffin
December 12, 2023 15:13 - 1 hour - 76 MB. 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 a...
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Noah Wall
December 05, 2023 15:09 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBThis week we feature Noah Wall, the singer and fiddle player with The Barefoot Movement. We talk with Noah about her career in music thus far, including her time at ETSU and the origin of The Barefoot Movement, all the way through the band's current Christmas tour and the series of new singles they are releasing every month this winter. You will also hear some new music from the band.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Gary Hultman
November 27, 2023 15:33 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBThis week we feature the Blue Highway’s Dobro player Gary Hultman. Gary grew up performing with his family's band and is a graduate of the bluegrass program at ETSU. He performed with the Boxcars before joining Blue Highway in 2019.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jeff Partin
November 20, 2023 15:39 - 52 minutes - 60.9 MBThis week we feature the talented Dobro and bass player Jeff Partin, who is currently performing with Rhonda Vincent and the Rage. We talk with Jeff about getting his start with his family’s band as a young kid, the various groups he has performed and recorded with over the years, his work as a recording engineer and his upcoming new album.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Justin Moses
November 14, 2023 15:37 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBThis week we feature the extremely talented multi-instrumentalist, and the IBMA's five-time Dobro Player of the Year, Justin Moses. We talk with Justin about how he got started playing music in his family’s band, the various bands that he has performed with since that time and his touring with Bela Fleck over the past couple of years.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Gaven Largent
November 07, 2023 15:20 - 55 minutes - 64.8 MBThis week we feature multi-instrumentalist and singer Gaven Largent who plays the Dobro with East Nash Grass and the Dan Tyminski Band. Jerry Douglas is on the cover of our November 2023 issue and so our podcasts this month highlight Dobro Players and first up is Gaven Largent.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Cory Walker
October 30, 2023 14:25 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBThis week we feature banjo player Cory Walker. Cory is currently performing and recording with the band East Nash Grass, as well as others, like The Dillards, Tim O'Brien and Jason Carter. He has also recently come out with a solo album titled School Project. We will talk with Corey about his bluegrass banjo journey to date and the new recording.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Ben Garnett
October 23, 2023 14:23 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBThis week we feature guitarist Ben Garnett. Missy Raines is on the cover of our October 2023 issue and Ben is the current guitar player in Missy’s band Allegeheny. We’ll talk with Ben about his move from rock and jazz guitar to bluegrass music while he was in college, about being a member of Missy’s band, and his newest solo recording.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Steve Smith
October 16, 2023 13:55 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBThis week we feature mandolinist Steve Smith. Our cover story artist for October 2023 issue is Missy Raines. Steve and Missy performed and recorded in the mid-1980s in a band called Cloud Valley. We’ll talk with Steve about his work with Missy and trace his career up through the present day, highlighting bands he has performed with, recordings he has been involved in and his work teaching music lessons and running music instructional events.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jim Hurst
October 11, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBThis week we feature guitar master Jim Hurst. Our October 2023 cover story artist is Missy Raines. Jim and Missy have worked together as members of Claire Lynch’s band and also as a duo. We talk with Jim about guitar pickin’, various aspects of his career and his work with Missy Raines.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Claire Lynch
October 04, 2023 15:54 - 50 minutes - 58.4 MBThis week we feature singer, songwriter and band leader Claire Lynch. Our October 2023 cover story artist is Missy Raines. Claire and Missy have a history of working together in Claire's band. We talk with Claire about her career in bluegrass music and about having Missy in the band. She also tells us what she has been up to lately in her relatively new home country of Canada.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Dean Osborne
September 26, 2023 16:24 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBThis week we feature Dean Osborne. As the Director of Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music at the Hazard Community and Technical College, he worked closely with our September 2023 cover story artist Bobby Osborne at that school, as well as other projects, including the Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival. We talk with Dean about his career in bluegrass music and his relationship with Bobby and Sonny Osborne.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Terry Smith
September 21, 2023 03:55 - 54 minutes - 63.3 MBThis week we feature the Grascals bass player Terry Smith. Terry has had a long and interesting career in bluegrass music and part of time—13 years—he performed with the Osborne Brothers. Since we have Bobby Osborne on the cover of this month’s issue and are remembering Bobby, we will talk with Terry about his time with the Osbornes and other aspects of his bluegrass career.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Lauren Price Napier
September 11, 2023 12:57 - 57 minutes - 67.6 MBThis week week we feature Lauren Price Napier of the Price Sisters. Our September issue honors bluegrass legend Bobby Osborne. Lauren studied mandolin with Bobby and spent a lot of time creating over one hundred YouTube videos with Bobby and her husband Scott Napier under the title "Tremolo Tuesday." We talk with Lauren about her career in bluegrass and her time spent with Bobby Osborne.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Darrell Scott
September 05, 2023 16:04 - 1 hour - 80.9 MBThis week week we feature singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott. Darrell’s career has seen him as a prominent part of the musical worlds of Americana, country, folk and bluegrass. Recently he has put a new band together called the Darrell Scott String Band and recorded a new album called Old Cane Back Rocker. We talk with Darrell about various aspects of his career, the new band and the new album.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Mark Stoffel
August 28, 2023 15:57 - 1 hour - 80 MBThis week we feature mandolin player Mark Stoffel. Being from Germany, Mark has an interesting bluegrass story. He is probably best known in his role as the long-time mandolin player for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers. We talk with Mark about his bluegrass journey, his work with Chris Jones, his 2020 solo album Coffee and Cake and his new soon-to-be released album True Tones.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with David Stewart
August 22, 2023 16:17 - 1 hour - 83 MBThis week week we feature songwriter David Stewart. A highly successful songwriter, David has written several number one bluegrass songs for our August 2023 cover story artist Lorraine Jordan and her band Carolina Road. I talk with David about those songs and other highlights of his long career, including walking all the way from Wyoming to Nashville to play on the Grand Ole Opry!
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Molly Tuttle
August 14, 2023 14:16 - 1 hour - 73 MBThis week week we feature Grammy award winning bluegrass singer, guitar player and songwriter Molly Tuttle. We talk with Molly about her background in bluegrass, her Grammy winning album Crooked Tree and her newest album City of Gold. We’ll also listen to a few tracks from the new recording.
Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine Podcast with Raymond McLain
August 08, 2023 19:28 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBThis week we feature bluegrass veteran Raymond McLain. Raymond has had a long and distinguished career as a bluegrass performer, recording artist, educator, and world-wide ambassador of bluegrass. He talks about his family's history, his interactions with first generation bluegrass legends, and his work at various college level bluegrass programs.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Josh Richards
August 01, 2023 16:18 - 58 minutes - 67.5 MBThis week we feature singer and guitar player Josh Richards, a long-time member of Michael Cleveland’s band Flamekeeper. We talk with Josh about his early years in bluegrass and his long relationship with Michael Cleveland. We also discuss Michael's newest recording and talk about singing, songwriting, and guitar picking.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jeff White
July 25, 2023 16:42 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBThis week I’m talking with singer and guitar and mandolin player Jeff White. Michael Cleveland is on the cover of our July 2023 issue and Jeff was a co-producer on Michael’s newest album. I’ll talk with Jeff about his work with Michael on that recording and also his current work with the Earls of Leicester, his long relationship with Vince Gill, his work with Alison Krauss and his current touring with Lyle Lovett.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Mike Mitchell
July 17, 2023 14:39 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBThis week we feature fiddler, singer and songwriter Mike Mitchell. Mike has a fairly new album out titled Fathers and Sons and a few cuts from that album have been rising up the bluegrass charts. We talk to Mike about his recording, his band, his songwriting and his work at the Floyd Music School in Floyd, Virginia.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Cody Kilby
July 11, 2023 16:09 - 54 minutes - 64 MBThis week we feature a master of the flatpicked guitar, and the current IBMA “Guitar Player of the Year,” Cody Kilby. Our July 2023 cover story is about Michael Cleveland and Cody performed on Michael’s newest album. We’ll talk with Cody about his background in bluegrass, his work with Michael Cleveland, a solo album that he will be releasing soon, and his work recording and performing with the Traveling McCoury’s.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Dale Ann Bradley
July 04, 2023 15:50 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBThis week we feature the six time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Dale Ann Bradley. We talk with Dale Ann about her background in music, singing, and songwriting, her work with the various bands she has performed with over the years and her new solo album Kentucky For Me.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Casey Penn
June 27, 2023 15:25 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBThis week we feature singer and songwriter Casey Penn. Casey, who also plays guitar and fiddle, is a regular columnist for Bluegrass Unlimited writing a column called "The Story Behind the Song." She has recently released a new CD on the Mountain Fever label titled One Step Away and we talk with Casey about that recording.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jason Barie
June 19, 2023 15:33 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBThis week we feature Jason Barie, the fiddle player for our June 2023 cover story band Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers. We talk with Jason about his work with the various bands he has performed with over the years and about his new solo recording titled Radioactive.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Robbie Fulks
June 13, 2023 14:12 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBThis week we feature guitar player, singer, and songwriter Robbie Fulks and talk about his new Compass Records release titled Bluegrass Vacation. We will first talk about Robbie’s early days in music and his long and distinguished career to date. That will lead up to talking about the new recording and the all star bluegrass cast of musicians that Robbie called in to help him record the album.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Tara Nevins
June 07, 2023 17:48 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBThis week we feature Tara Nevins of Donna the Buffalo and talk with her about her career in music, her work with Donna the Buffalo, her Grass Roots festivals and the associated Culture Camp, a music and dance instruction camp that provides a wide variety of music and dance classes in July each year. We hope you enjoy the Tara Nevins podcast.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer
May 31, 2023 16:59 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBThis week we feature Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer. After battling breast cancer Marcy, along with her partner Cathy, have produced a released a new film titled All Wigged Out. The film takes the viewer through a musical journey of the trials and tribulations of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Tom Paxton says of the film, “All Wigged Out is heartwarming, touching, hilarious and so relatable.” We talk with Cathy and Marcy about their careers in music and about the making of the new film.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Leon Morris
May 23, 2023 16:32 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBThis week we feature guitar player and singer Leon Morris. Leon has been well-known in the Washington, DC area bluegrass scene for decades and Putuxent Music recently released an album titled The Best of Leon Morris. We talk with Leon about his long career in bluegrass music and the new album.
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Greg Cahill
May 16, 2023 16:27 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis week we feature banjo player Greg Cahill who has had a very long and distinguished career with the Chicago-based bluegrass band The Special Consensus. We talk with Greg about his nearly 50 years with that band and about the band’s newest album.