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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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- 1 weeks ago31 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...
- 2 weeks ago48 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...
- 3 weeks ago31 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...
- 4 weeks ago10 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...
- Aug 26, 20261h 9m
Sean Sullivan - Capturing More Than Just Music
My guest this week is 5 time Grammy award winning engineer, mixer and producer Sean Sullivan. Sean has worked with dozens of artists, including Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, The Steeldrivers, The Del McCoury Band, Michael Cleveland, Andrew Marlin, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway and Mighty Poplar. We chat about his route into recording and how he only came to love string band music when he started working on it. Sean also talks about what he learned in his time at The Butcher Shoppe Stu...
- Aug 19, 202635 min
Lindsay Lou - Bluegrass Women
My guest this week is Lindsay Lou. I chatted with Lindsay a while back, about her record Queen of Time. This time we're talking about her brand new record Bluegrass Women. Lindsay reveals how the project came about and why she wanted to make a record celebrating the contributions of women to bluegrass. We talk about the musicians on the record - including Sarah Jarosz, Sierra Hull, Molly Tuttle, Laurie Lewis and Alison Brown - and why mentorship and multi-generational music making a...
- Aug 13, 202611 min
Bluegrass Briefing - August 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. News and announcements - church street news Bluegrass Album Band reissueBlue Waters BluegrassDawg at 80 videos Releases (The Grass is New) Lindsay Lou - Bluegrass WomenMike Marshall Sings BluegrassKen and Brad Kolodner - Hand’s CoveNew Acoustic Collective - Double Course Scroll on Buddy Telluride d...
- Jul 29, 202635 min
Repost: Brittany Haas on joining Punch Brothers
To celebrate Punch Brothers' new record, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, I'm reposting a fascinating conversation I had with Brittany Haas after she joined the band. This is the first Punch album with Brittany in the line-up so I thought it would be fun to listen back and hear how she joined the band and what her first shows were like. I'd interviewed Gabe Witcher a few days after he played his final shows with Punch Brothers at Telluride and, almost exactly a year later to the day, ...
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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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