This week we feature guitar player and singer Leon Morris.  Leon has been well-known in the Washington, DC area bluegrass scene for decades and Putuxent Music recently released an album titled The Best of Leon Morris.  We talk with Leon about his long career in bluegrass music and the new album.

This week we feature banjo player Greg Cahill who has had a very long and distinguished career with the Chicago-based bluegrass band The Special Consensus.  We talk with Greg about his nearly 50 years with that band and about the band’s newest album.

This week we feature singer and guitar and mandolin player Mark Newton.  Mark has had a long career in bluegrass music playing with bands like the Heights of Grass, Knoxville Grass, the Virginia Squires and Bill Emerson.  Mark has recently had some medical issues required both liver and kidney transplants.  I will talk to Mark about various aspects of his bluegrass career and the challenges of his medical problems.

This week we feature the Infamous Stringdusters guitar player Andy Falco.  The Stringdusters have recently released a tribute album to Flatt & Scruggs.  We talk with Andy about his early days in bluegrass, his work with the Stringdusters, and the new album.

This week we feature mandolin player and singer Andrew Marlin and his work with the new all-star band Mighty Poplar.  Andrew is best known for his work with the band Mandolin Orange, now known as Watch House.  However, he recently joined up with Noam Pickelny, Chris Eldridge, Greg Garrison, and  Alex Hargreaves to record the self-titled album Mighty Poplar.  We talk with Andrew about his career in music to date and his work with this new band.

This week we feature guitar player and singer Mo Pitney.  Mo is best know as a country music star, but like a number of well known country performers, Mo started out in bluegrass and has come back to it with a recording and great video of the classic “Old Home Place.”  We talk with Mo about his bluegrass days and the new recording.

This week we feature fiddle player Bob Forrester.  Bob is the son of two people who have great importance in bluegrass music as they were both members of Bill Monroe’s early bands.  Bob’s father was fiddler Howdy Forrester and his mother, Billie, was known during her time with Monroe as Sally Ann Forester and played the accordion in Monroe’s band. 

This week we feature banjo player, recording artist, and banjo instructor Ross Nickerson.  We talk with Ross about his career in bluegrass music and the various books, videos, and workshops that he has created for bluegrass banjo players.

This week we feature the phenomenal singer and guitar picker Trey Hensley and his musical partner, Dobro master Rob Ickes.  We talk about how they came to start performing together and their newest recording, Living In A Song.

This week we feature one of the finest singers in bluegrass music, Junior Sisk.  We talk to Junior about the various bands he has performed with and recordings he has made over the years and we will play you some cuts from his newest recording.