Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six bluegrass guitarists you need to hear. From the iconic roots planted by Bill Monroe to innovators like Billy Strings and Molly ...

On this day (March 10) in 1938, Norman Blake was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is an enormously talented multi-instrumentalist, but is best known for his guitar work. Early in his career, he ...

Even as a toddler, Billy Strings seemed to understand bluegrass. "When he was in his highchair, and I had a friend over and we were playing one day, I looked over and he's right in rhythm with his ...

You might not think you're a bluegrass fan, but if you ever strum simple chords on an acoustic, Brad Davis's bluegrass tips will add sparkle to your rhythm parts. In this video lesson, Grammy-winning ...

It’s the day before New Year’s Eve in Nashville, and Molly Tuttle is in a dressing room at the Ryman Auditorium, getting ready to open Old Crow Medicine Show’s annual year-end concerts later that ...

Springfield, MO music store The Acoustic Shoppe has shared footage of this year's National Flat-picking Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas – held between 13 and 17 ...

From Molly Tuttle’s clawhammer innovation to Bryan Sutton’s flatpicking mastery, today’s bluegrass guitar blends deep-rooted tradition with fresh approaches. Whether refining tone through rosewood or ...

After two albums of roots pop, the musician returns to her own roots for “Crooked Tree,” an album that takes inspiration from her lifelong journey living with alopecia areata. By Tony Scherman The ...

The nimble king of flatpicking had enormous influence on a host of prominent musicians. And he could sing, too, until he could no longer. By Bill Friskics-Warren Tony Rice, an immensely influential ...

I want to say something about Tony Rice, the master guitar player who died suddenly on Christmas morning, at sixty-nine, and who, by his friend, the musician Ricky Skaggs, was recalled as “the single ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with bluegrass musician Billy Strings and his dad who taught him how to play guitar, Terry Barber, about their new album, "Me/And/Dad." Billy Strings was born into music, like, ...