All Episodes
Bluegrass Jam Along Interviews — 292 episodes
Lindsay Lou - Bluegrass Women
Bluegrass Briefing - August 2026
Repost: Brittany Haas on joining Punch Brothers
Jerry Douglas - Celebrating Boone Creek
Scott Billington - Reissuing Classic Bluegrass Albums for Craft Recordings
Bluegrass Briefing - July 2026
Bitesize - Tristan Scroggins on Authenticity and Identity in Bluegrass
Missy Raines on The Seldom Scene Act Two
Bluegrass Briefing - June 2026
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck - The Fiddle and the Drum
The Tim O'Brien Songbook
Sierra Hull - The Movements
John Reischman on The Salish Sea and Playing in The Tony Rice Unit
Andy Leftwich - Aced
Bluegrass Briefing - May 2026
Sore Fingers 2026 Special
Tony Trischka - Earl Jam 2
Michael Daves - Celebrating Jim & Jesse with Jacob Jolliff
Bryan Sutton - From Roots to Branches
Tony Rice's Best Loved Albums
Thomm Jutz - Ring-a-Bellin and Musical Alchemy
Alex Graf - Tony Rice's Manzanita Changed My Life
Bluegrass Briefing - April 2026
Bill Nowlin - 50 Years of Rounder Records, the 'Hobby That Got Out of Control'
Brad Kolodner on Community, Connection and Clawhammer Banjo
Celebrating 30 Years of Sore Fingers Music Camps with John Wirtz
Bluegrass Briefing - March 2026
Celebrating the Legacy of Rich-R-Tone/Folk Star with Ted Olson
Bitesize - Sara Watkins on I'm With Her's Grammy Winning 'Wild and Clear and Blue'
Bluegrass Briefing February 2026
Dave Sinko on How 'The David Grisman Quintet' Changed His Life
Tony Trischka on New York in the 1970s and the Roots of New Acoustic Music
Kristina R. Gaddy - Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle an
Bluegrass Briefing - January 2026
Highlights from the First 500 Episodes - Alison Krauss, Wyatt Rice, Bryan Sutton, Gabe Witcher, Brittany Haas, Chris Eldridge, Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Mike Marshall
Trey Hensley Celebrates Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall
Bitesize - Happy 80th Birthday Bluegrass!
Bluegrass Briefing - December 2025
David Grier on The White Brothers Live in Sweden and Artistry in Music
Musicality For Modern Humans with Craig Havighurst
Eddie Barbash - The Art of Fiddle Tunes on Saxophone
Bluegrass Briefing - November 2025
Bitesize - Chris Eldridge on Tony Rice's Church Street Blues
A Celebration of Connection - Darol Anger's 'Diary of a Fiddler 2'
IBMA Dark Shadow Special - Becky Buller, Ben Wright (Henhouse Prowlers), Rick Faris & Jana Mougin
Bluegrass Briefing - October 2025
Maddie Denton (East Nash Grass) on Collaboration and Community
Ben Garnett - Building Worlds in Sound on his New Record 'Kite's Keep'
Alison Brown - Celebrating 30 Years of Compass Records
Ethan Setiawan's Encyclopedia Mandolinnica
A quick update on the podcast
Bluegrass Briefing August 18th 2025
Bitesize - Gabe Witcher on first meeting Chris Thile and how Punch Brothers came together
Bitesize - Jarrod Walker on playing with Billy Strings, plugging in and pedals
Bluegrass Briefing August 4th 2025
Joe Brent - Adhyâropa Records : Reimagining What a Record Label Is
Bluegrass Briefing July 28th 2025
Bitesize - Caitlin Canty on Songwriting and Slow Processing
Bluegrass Briefing July 24th 2025 - IBMA Music Awards nominations special
Sara Watkins - Connection and Collaboration on I'm With Her's 'Wild and Clear and Blue'
Bluegrass Briefing July 14th 2025
Shelby Means on her new solo record and 4 years with Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway
Joe K Walsh - Less is More, Conversation and Space in Music
Bluegrass Briefing June 30th 2025
Celebrating IBMA World of Bluegrass as it Prepares to Move to Chattanooga in 2025
Celebrating 50 years of the David Grisman Quintet - part 3 David Grisman
Bluegrass Briefing June 16th 2025
Celebrating 50 years of the David Grisman Quintet - part 2 Todd Phillips
Celebrating 50 years of the David Grisman Quintet - part 1 Darol Anger & Mike Marshall
Bluegrass Briefing June 2nd 2025
Celebrating Norman Blake's 'Whiskey Before Breakfast' with Bob Minner
Bluegrass Briefing May 26th 2025
Wayne Erbsen on 50 Years of Writing About Southern Mountain Music
Bluegrass Briefing May 14th 2025
Jason Carter on his 33 Years With the Del McCoury Band
Bitesize - Wyatt Rice on recording Church Street Blues with Tony Rice
Bluegrass Briefing - April 21st 2025
Katie Harford Hogue - Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2
Bluegrass Briefing - April 14th 2025
Bitesize - Rachel Baiman on Connection, Conversation and Community in Music
Bluegrass Briefing - April 7th 2025
Bluegrass Briefing - March 31st 2025
Sierra Hull - A Tiptoe High Wire
David Grisman - Celebrating 35 Years of Acoustic Disc
Bluegrass Briefing - March 10th 2025
Bitesize - Bluegrass Jam Along guests on the Mandolins and Beer podcast
Bluegrass Briefing - March 3rd 2025
Celebrating 'JD Crowe & The New South' at 50 with Tim Stafford (Rounder 0044)
Bluegrass Briefing - February 24th 2025
Jake Workman on 9 years with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Bluegrass Briefing - February 17th 2025
Bitesize - Jack Lawrence on the D18 Doc Watson Gave Him
Bluegrass Briefing - February 10th 2025
Tom Nechville - Nechville Banjos
Bluegrass Briefing - February 3rd 2025
Celebrating 'Phillips, Grier & Flinner' with Eric Skye
Bluegrass Briefing - January 27th 2025
Daniel Kimbro - Story Songs, Murder Ballads and a New Solo Record
Bluegrass Briefing - January 20th 2025
Bluegrass Briefing - January 13th 2025
Dan Gutstein - 'Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane'
Bluegrass Briefing - December 9th 2024
Darol Anger - Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington's Nutcracker
Charlotte Carrivick - Sensible or Otherwise
Olli Chanoff - FreshGrass Foundation
Bluegrass Briefing - November 18th 2024
Sarah Jarosz - Blue Heron Suite Reissue Special
Bluegrass Briefing - November 11th 2024 (Grammy Nominations Special)
Sierra Hull Returns
Bluegrass Briefing - November 4th 2024
Bryan Sutton - Hurricane Helene Fundraiser
Bluegrass Briefing - October 28th 2024
Daniel Patrick - Mandolins and Beer Podcast
Bluegrass Briefing - October 21st 2024
Announcing the Bryan Sutton & IBMA Hurricane Helene Fundraiser
Bluegrass Briefing - October 14th 2024
Roots Revival - A Black Stringband Symposium, with Lillian Werbin & Kristina Gaddy
Bluegrass Briefing - October 7th 2024
IBMA 2024 Special - featuring ArtistWorks, Brenna MacMillan, Collings Guitars and more
Inspiration for Musicians - featuring Bryan Sutton, Sierra Hull, Stephen Mougin and more
Bluegrass Briefing - September 23rd 2024
Bluegrass Briefing - September 16th 2024
Jerry Douglas on his new record 'The Set'
Jason Verlinde (Fretboard Journal) interview
Bluegrass Briefing - August 19th 2024
Rebecca Frazier Interview
Becky Buller Interview
Bluegrass Briefing - August 5th 2024
Food For Thought - Dolly Parton and Being Yourself on Purpose
Bluegrass Briefing - July 29th 2024
Alister Atkin (Atkin Guitars) - Building new guitars with old souls
Happy Traum (Homespun Tapes) repost
Bluegrass Briefing - July 22nd 2024
Roger Siminoff - Celebrating Lloyd Loar and the Gibson F5 Mandolin
Bluegrass Briefing - July 15th 2024
Celebrating Bela Fleck's 'Drive' with Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers/Mighty Poplar)
Bluegrass Briefing - July 8th 2024
Brittany Haas on joining Punch Brothers
Bluegrass Briefing - July 1st 2024
Ruth Oxenberg and Rob Schumer's Bluegrass Journey
Tony Trischka on Earl Jam
Bluegrass Briefing - June 10th 2024
Alison Krauss Remembers Tony Rice
Jacob Jolliff Interview
Bluegrass Briefing - May 29th 2024
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes on her new record 'I Built a World' and winning a Grammy with Molly Tuttle
Bluegrass Briefing - May 20th 2024
Oliver Burkeman on Why Now is the Time To Do the Things You Love
Bluegrass Briefing - May 13th 2024
Dave Sinko - Capturing Sound for Punch Brothers and Edgar Meyer
Bluegrass Briefing - May 6th 2024
Bluegrass Briefing - April 22nd 2024
How to Coach a Band with Stephen Mougin (Sam Bush Band/Dark Shadow Recording)
Bluegrass Briefing - April 22nd 2024
Kristina R Gaddy on the Banjo’s Hidden History (part 2 - new interview)
Kristina R Gaddy on the Banjo’s Hidden History (part 1 - original interview re-post)
Bluegrass Briefing - April 15th 2024 (Church Street Blues re-issue, John McEuen, Jake Eddy)
Matt Glaser - Celebrating 15 Years of Berklee's American Roots Music Program
Bluegrass Briefing - April 8th 2024 (Fretboard Summit, Rhiannon Giddens, Hillary Klug)
Bluegrass Briefing - April 1st 2024 (Blue Highway, Laurie Lewis, IBMA WOB)
Lindsay Lou - Knowing Where You Come From to Know Where You Want to Go
Bluegrass Briefing - March 25th 2024 (inc Lindsay Lou, Aoife O'Donovan & Sierra Ferrell)
Bluegrass Briefing - March 18th 2024 (inc. Tony Trischka w/Molly Tuttle & Sam Bush; Earl Scruggs Fest; Steve Martin w/Alison Brown)
Michael Johnathon - Woodsongs, Songfarmers and the Timeless Tradition of the Front Porch
Bluegrass Briefing - March 11th 2024 (inc. news from Chris Thile, North Carolina Guitar Celebration & Volume Five)
Ethan Sherman interview
Bluegrass Briefing - March 4th 2024
Missy Raines - Standing Gently on the Shoulders of Tradition
Bluegrass Briefing - February 26th 2024
George Jackson on Recording 100 Fiddle Tunes in a Day
Bluegrass Briefing - February 19th 2024
Kyle Tuttle (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)
Bluegrass Briefing - February 12th 2024
Jim Mills on Earl Scruggs and pre-War Gibson banjos
Bluegrass Briefing - February 5th 2024
Earl Scruggs 100th Birthday Tribute part 3 - Trey Hensley, Kyle Tuttle (Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway) & Willow Osborne
Bluegrass Briefing - January 29th 2024
Earl Scruggs 100th Birthday Tribute part 2 - Jerry Douglas, Alison Brown and Tim O'Brien
Bluegrass Briefing - January 22nd 2024
Earl Scruggs 100th Birthday Tribute part 1 - Tony Trischka, Kristin Scott Benson and Alan Munde
Bluegrass Briefing - January 15th 2024
Josh Turknett (Brainjo) Interview - Re-post
Bluegrass Briefing - January 8th 2024
Jerry Douglas celebrates Earl Scruggs' 100th Birthday
2023 Retrospective with Sierra Hull, Alison Krauss, Wyatt Rice and more
Bluegrass Briefing - December 11th 2023
The Bristol Sessions and Beyond, with Ted Olson
Bluegrass Briefing - December 4th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - November 27th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - November 20th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - November 13th 2023
Mike Marshall & Chris Thile's Into the Cauldron 20th Anniversary Celebration - part 2
Bluegrass Briefing - November 6th 2023
Mike Marshall & Chris Thile's Into the Cauldron 20th Anniversary Celebration - part 1 with Mike Marshall
Bluegrass Briefing - October 30th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - October 23rd 2023
Clarence White Tribute part 2 - featuring Russ Barenberg, Diane Bouska, Michael Daves & Tim Stafford
Bluegrass Briefing - October 16th 2023
Clarence White Tribute part 1 - featuring David Grier and Alan Munde
Bluegrass Briefing - October 9th 2023
IBMA World of Bluegrass 2023 special
Bluegrass Briefing - October 2nd 2023
Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz interview
Bluegrass Briefing - September 25th 2023
James Kee (East Nash Grass) interview
Bluegrass Briefing - September 18th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - September 11th 2023
A quick August update
Bluegrass Briefing - August 7th 2023
Caitlin Canty interview
Bluegrass Briefing - July 17th 2023
Food for Thought - Some Days You Just Suck (and that’s OK)
Bluegrass Briefing - July 10th 2023
Tim Stafford (Guitar Melodies) interview
Bluegrass Briefing - July 3rd 2023
Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers) interview
Bluegrass Briefing - June 26th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - June 19th 2023
Tim O'Brien interview (Cup of Sugar)
Bluegrass Briefing - June 12th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - June 5th 2023
Natalie and Brittany Haas interview
Bluegrass Briefing - May 29th 2023
Food for Thought - What You Should Be Scared of as a Musician
Bluegrass Briefing - May 22nd 2023
Wyatt Rice extended interview - Church Street Blues 40th anniversary
Bluegrass Briefing - May 15th 2023
Tony Rice - Church Street Blues 40th anniversary part 2 (Bob Minner, Jake Eddy, Justin Moses, Marcel Ardans, Scott Nygaard, Jason Keiser & tony_units)
Bluegrass Briefing - May 8th 2023
Tony Rice - Church Street Blues 40th anniversary part 1 (Tim Stafford, Wyatt Rice, Mike Marshall, Alison Krauss, Br
Bluegrass Briefing - May 1st 2023
Rachel Baiman interview
Bluegrass Briefing - April 24th 2023
Tim O'Brien interview - Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration
T. Michael Coleman interview - Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration
Bluegrass Briefing - April 17th 2023
Jack Lawrence interview - Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration
Bluegrass Briefing - April 10th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - April 3rd 2023
Noam Pikelny (Mighty Poplar/Punch Brothers) interview
Bluegrass Briefing - March 27th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - March 20th 2023
John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) interview
Bluegrass Briefing - March 13th 2023
Bluegrass Briefing - March 6th 2023
Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration - part 2
Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration - part 1
Bluegrass Briefing - February 27th 2023
Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley interview
Tony Trischka has dinner with Bill Monroe
Sierra Hull interview
Jack Hinshelwood (Doc at 100) interview
Eric Skye interview
Paul Kowert mini interview - commissioning Nick Lloyd to make a copy of Edgar Meyer's bass
Nick Lloyd interview - copying Edgar Meyer's bass for Paul Kowert
Tonewoods Special with Nully from Collings Guitars
Food for Thought - Tuning Your Ear (Tim Stafford on electronic tuners and Tony Rice's tuning)
Harry Clark (East Nash Grass/Dan Tyminski) interview
Food For Thought - Tim Stafford on Why David Grier Doesn't Put Rhinestones in his Hammers (!)
Tim Stafford interview
Kristina R Gaddy - "Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History"
Trey Hensley interview
Paul Kowert (Hawktail/Punch Brothers) interview
Food for Thought - The Art of Reaction
Dan Tyminski interview
Chris Pandolfi (Infamous Stringdusters) interview
Scott Nygaard (Peghead Nation) interview
Cameron Knowler interview
Food for Thought #9 - Letting go of Perfect
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Steve Nall (Nully) from Collings guitars
Marcel Ardans (Lessons With Marcel) on Billy Strings, Trey Hensley, Molly Tuttle and Tony Rice
Emma John (Wayfaring Stranger book) Interview
Happy Traum (Homespun Tapes) Interview
Tony Rice Birthday Tribute (Chris Eldridge, Mike Marshall, Happy Traum & Marcel Ardans)
Food For Thought #8 - 'Yes, but is it bluegrass?'
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway) interview
Jake Eddy returns
Tony Trischka interview
Wes Corbett interview
Bob Minner Interview (Norman Blake tribute record)
Jarrod Walker (Billy Strings) Interview
Tim Brookes Interview
Josh Turknett Interview
Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) interview
Charlotte Carrivick Interview
Justin Moses interview
Mike Marshall interview
Tristan Scroggins interview
Bryan Sutton interview
Marcel Ardans (lessons with Marcel) interview
Jake Eddy Interview