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The IBMA Award winning podcast for anyone and everyone who loves bluegrass. Every week we feature interviews with musicians, writers, instrument makers and other key figures from the bluegrass and string band world, plus regular news and new releases. Guests include Alison Krauss, Sierra Hull, Tim O'Brien, Wyatt Rice, Jerry Douglas, Sarah Jarosz, Jarrod Walker and David Grisman.
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- 2 days ago14 min
Bluegrass Briefing - November 2026
Here's your Bluegrass Briefing for November, our monthly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Chris Thile interviewNews and announcements - Church Street News Peghead Nation Norman Blake courseCraft Recordings Tony Rice reissues (Including Acoustics)IBMA Award winners Releases - The Grass is New Bela Fleck Live Heart Other bits Full list of interviewsCollings Guitars Happy picking...
- 1 weeks ago19 min
Bitesize - Marcel Ardans on Billy Strings' Guitar Style
This week's episode features a segment of a conversation I had a while back with Marcel Ardans of the Lessons With Marcel YouTube channel. Marcel has spent hundreds of hours transcribing guitar breaks from some of our favourite pickers, so I thought it would be fun to find out what he learned in the process. This particular segment is about Billy Strings. We chat about Billy's lead and rhythm style, including the obvious Doc Watson influence, but also what else Billy brings and how he blends ...
- 2 weeks ago55 min
Chris Thile - The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers
My guest this week is Chris Thile and he joins me to chat about The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers. We talk about how the album came together and why, after 20 years as a band, it's only now they've got round to making a fully instrumental record. Chris also tells me how Brittany Haas joining the band and their first project together, Energy Curfew Music Hour, sowed the seeds for the album and why not having vocals on it left space for instrumental voices to shine. Chris also talks...
- 3 weeks ago48 min
Matt Combs - Fifty Years of Clown School
My guest this week is fiddler, string arranger, composer and session musician Matt Combs. After decades working in the service of other people's music, including a stint in the Opry house band, Matt has just put out his first solo record 'Fifty Years of Clown School.' We chat about why now felt like the time to put out his own record, as well as the reasons why he shelved a previous project he'd already recorded, and what he learned in decades of playing and arranging for other people. We als...
- Sep 30, 202631 min
Kristy Cox - Turning Heartbreak into Hope Through Songwriting
My guest this week is singer-songwriter Kristy Cox and we're chatting about her brand new album 'Winds of Change', due out on October 9th. Kristy explains why this record is her rawest and most personal yet and how, through her long term collaboration with producer Jerry Salley, plus her co-writers on the album, she created a journey that took heartbreak and turned it into hope. We also chat about her background growing up listening to bluegrass and country in Australia, before moving t...
- Sep 23, 202648 min
Bertolf - From The Netherlands to Nashville (and Back Again)
My guest this week is Bertolf Lentink, better know as simply Bertolf. Bertolf grew up listening to bluegrass at home in the Netherlands with his parents and learned to play guitar with his father. Then he discovered other bands, including the Beatles and Radiohead, and began writing songs of his own. After several albums in a pop/rock, singer-songwriter vein, he was drawn back to his initial love of bluegrass and decided he wanted to make a bluegrass record. Bluefinger was recorded in Nashvil...
- Sep 16, 202631 min
Julian Lage on World's Fair, Playing Solo and the Art of Interpretation
My guest this week is Julian Lage and we're talking about his extraordinary solo guitar album 'World's Fair'. Julian will be known to many of you as a jazz player but is also widely known in the bluegrass and string band world through his wonderful duet records with Chris Eldridge of Punch Brothers and Mighty Poplar. In fact, Julian's first recording was an acoustic duet with David Grisman as part of the 'Dawg Duos' album. Julian talks about the challenges and opportunities of playing solo, h...
- Sep 9, 202610 min
Bluegrass Briefing - September 2026
Welcome to this month’s Bluegrass Briefing, a monthly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Sean Sullivan interviewLindsay Lou’s Bluegrass Women interviewJulian Lage Australian tour dates News and announcements - church street news Bela Fleck pre-order Releases (The Grass is New) Billy Strings - So Much For GoodbyesLindsay Lou - Bluegrass WomenBryan Sutton - From Roots to Bra...
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The IBMA Award winning podcast for anyone and everyone who loves bluegrass. Every week we feature interviews with musicians, writers, instrument makers and other key figures from the bluegrass and string band world, plus regular news and new releases. Guests include Alison Krauss, Sierra Hull, Tim O'Brien, Wyatt Rice, Jerry Douglas, Sarah Jarosz, Jarrod Walker and David Grisman.
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