Some years ago, I briefly toured the Midwest playing harmonica with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. Quite how an English teenager came to be there still mystifies me as much as it surely ...

Column topics wander in and out of my mind like moths at a light in the summertime. They flit through catching the brightness momentarily then disappear into the dark sometimes not to emerge. I’ve got ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

CHILLICOTHE — The snappy plucks of strings and notes with a shaky sound emanate from a screened-in porch off Marietta Road. Without hesitation, more instruments join in, creating a full lively melody, ...