Lester Flatt

Fred Vultee is an assistant professor of journalism at Wayne State University who began playing bluegrass music as a student at the University of North Carolina in the 1970s and still has photos from the first time he saw Doc Watson. Read More

Doc Watson, a singer and guitarist who expanded the instrument's role in traditional American music and influenced generations of musicians with his playing skills, died Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 89. Read More

Mr. Lilly had been found to have an aneurysm and probably died of a heart attack, his son Daniel said. Read More

West Virginia bluegrass legend Everett Lilly has died. Read More

MR : Is it fantastic because of what's on this year's New Music Seminar slate? Read More

"I came to Nashville from the land of Jimmie Rodgers, looking for a place, a place to belong inside the world of country music," Marty Stuart writes in this album's liner notes. Read More