This week we feature guitar player and singer Clay Hess.  Clay first came to national prominence in bluegrass playing guitar with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder.  He later toured with Mark Newton, Sierra Hull, Mountain Heart and his own Clay Hess Band, among others.  He is now the newest member of the Seldom Scene and has released a few singles from an upcoming solo album.  This week we talk about Clay’s entire bluegrass journey, including his first few months with the Seldom Scene.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and guitar player Mason Via.  We’ll talk about his growing up learning bluegrass music and songwriting from his father, songwriter and bluegrass musician David Via.  We will also talk about his time with the Old Crow Medicine Show and his new self-titled album.  You’ll also hear a few cuts from that album.

This week we feature guitar player Lucas White.  Lucas has had a very interesting career in bluegrass starting from the time he was a teenager in Texas.  We’ll talk about his relationship with Tony Rice, working with the Zac Brown band while he was still a teenager, his work in Washington, D.C. advocating for musicians and recording engineers and his current band, Off The Rails.

This week we feature banjo player Chris Pandolfi of the Infamous Stringdusters and talk with him about his career in bluegrass and various other aspects of bluegrass music, practicing, performing and banjo playing.

This week we feature bass player, singer and songwriter Reed Jones.  Reed played in Audie Blaylock’s band, Redline, prior to Audie’s untimely passing.  He recently teamed up with a special group of musicians who were friends and bandmates of Audie’s to record a tribute single titled “Ran Out of Road.”  We talk with Reed about the song and his work with Audie Blaylock.

This week we feature fiddler Michael Cleveland.  Michael and Jason Carter have a new album out.  We talk with Michael about how he got his start in bluegrass music, the various bands that he has performed with, forming his own band, and the new recording.

This week we feature guitar player and singer Ginger Boatwright.  Ginger performed with Red, White and Bluegrass starting in the late 1960s and then worked with Doug Dillard from 1981 until Doug’s passing 33 years later.

This week we feature mandolin player Jeremy Chapman.  Jeremy played with his family band for years and now he and his brothers run one of the most successful acoustic music stores in the country.  He also has a new mandolin instructional book out that is really well done and is reviewed in the April 2025 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine.

This week we feature mandolin player Dick Staber.  Dick has recently written a very interesting memoir about his life in bluegrass music and after reading it, we got in touch with Dick and asked about conducting a podcast interview.  Dick notably play with Del McCoury from 1968 to 1975 and also performed with Don Stover, Bob Paisley, Leon Morris, Bill Clifton and many others.

This week we feature multi-instrumentalist Greg Luck.  Greg has performed with many of the top bands in bluegrass, including Lost & Found, the Lynn Morris Band, Bluegrass Cardinals, J.D. Crowe and the New South, IIIrd Time Out and Sideline.  He also is a recording engineer who has worked with a number of the well-known bands in bluegrass.