The influential bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker, a mainstay of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys for 23 years, died July 8 in Gallatin, Tenn., after suffering a stroke. He was 85. No musician enjoyed a ...

Jazz has John Coltrane. Bluegrass has Kenny Baker. Playing alongside the legendary Bill Monroe for 25 years, Baker’s smooth “long-bow” style of fiddling would come to define the genre. Today, we’re ...

Bluegrass By The River from 2008 / River City Bluegrass Festival from 1998. Step back in time with WLJT for a toe-tapping tribute to bluegrass, featuring The Smokehouse Band from the 2008 'Bluegrass ...

Like it or not, Durango has an active bluegrass-music scene. Live with it. While its popularity may bum some of the genre’s naysayers out, it’s arguably not any more fertile than the towns punk or EDM ...