For musicians, jam sessions can be a moment of clarity, when the pressures of the world are drowned out and they can commune with other people through music. That's part of the idea behind a new ...

Bluegrass has always been a music by and for the masses. One of the pioneers of the feel-good fast-pickin’ genre in the 1940s, Bill Monroe, is credited with saying “Bluegrass has brought more people ...

"There's something about bluegrass people -- you've got to do it like Scruggs did it, or it ain't right," he said. "And I come from that school, so originally that's how I wanted to do everything." It ...

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Any musician who’s ever jammed with a group knows the deep connection that can form between players. Jam sessions can be a moment of clarity, when all the pressures of the world are drowned out and ...