Bluegrass Unlimited's Podcast

This week we are featuring Heather Berry Mabe and Tony Mabe.  We'll talk with them about how they got started in bluegrass, the various bands they have worked with, their work with Junior Sisk and their recent recording and performing with Red Camel Collective.  You will also get to hear a few cuts from their upcoming album.

This week we feature guitar and mandolin player Mickey Abraham.  Mickey has recently released a wonderful new album with Kathryn Belle Long titled  Voices: A Folk Opera .  We talk with Mickey about his career in music and the making and release of this new album, plus his work as a guitar and mandolin instructor.  

This week we feature banjo player Frank Evans.  We talk with Frank about his new album titled Fit For A Dog .   Frank toured for years with the Slocan Ramblers and is now out on the road as a member of Bronwyn Keith-Hynes' band. 

This week we feature Michael Daves and talk with him about his growing up in bluegrass music, performing with Chris Thile, working with Tony Trischka and his new album with Jacob Jollif that plays tribute to Jim and Jesse.  We also talk to Michael about his ArtistWorks vocals course.   

This week we feature Billy Cardine and Mary Lucey and talk with them about their new band Tanasi and the album that they recently released.  We will explore both Mary and Billy's backgrounds in music and then talk about the new album and play a couple of cuts from the record.

This week we feature bluegrass banjo legend Tony Trischka and talk with him about his two Earl Jam projects and tour.  Tony tells us the story about how the two Earl Jam projects came together and we will talk about his love and respect for Earl's banjo playing and his relationship with Earl Scruggs over the years.  We'll also talk about his teaching banjo on ArtistWorks. 

This week we feature multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Chris Stuart.  Chris has written many songs that were recorded by various well-known bluegrass artists, then he stepped away from writing bluegrass songs for a while, but has now come back to it.  We talk with Chris about his bluegrass journey and his song writing.  

This week we feature guitar player Jack Lawrence and talk with him about his early years in bluegrass, the many years he spent performing with Doc Watson and what he will be teaching to flatpicking guitar players in August 2026 at the Monroe Mandolin Camp.

This week we feature fiddle player, songwriter and singer Sara Watkins, famously of Nickel Creek and now performing with I'm With Her.  We talk with Sara about the Nickel Creek days and what I'm With Her has going on this year, including the recent release or their live album. 

This week we are featuring Ralph Stanley II.  We talk with Ralph about his life growing up in bluegrass as the son of a bluegrass legend and we will talk about this year's upcoming Dr. Ralph Stanley Hills of Home Bluegrass Festival held at the Stanley homeplace over Memorial Day Weekend.  We'll also talk about the Stanley Brothers recent induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

This week we feature bass and guitar player Randy Barnes and talk with him about the many bluegrass bands that he has performed with over the years and his new solo recording on Mountain Fever Records.

This week we feature guitar player, singer and songwriter Paige Anderson.  We'll talk about her early work with her family band and subsequent work with her siblings in a band called The Fearless Kin.  We then talk with Paige about her most recent work with the band Two Runner and you will get to hear several of Paige's original songs that she recorded with Two Runner.     

This week we feature multi-instrumentalist Robert Bowlin.  Robert has performed with many bluegrass and country artists over the years and has the distinction of being Bill Monroe's last fiddle player.  We talk with Robert about his career in bluegrass, his newest projects and his schedule for the summer of 2026.

This week we feature Canadian mandolin player Andrew Collins.  We talk with Andrew about his background in music leading up to a discussion about the Andrew Collins Trio's newest project titled Retro .  You'll also hear a couple of tracks from that album.

This week we feature guitar player and singer David Parmley.  We talk with David about his induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame last fall, along with his Bluegrass Cardinals bandmates.  He will also tell us about the history of that band and we will follow his career up through the release of his newest music. 

This week we feature guitar player Jordan Tice and talk with him about his career in bluegrass starting with the release of his first solo album when he was still a teenager.  We'll talk about his other solo album releases over the years, his work with Hawktail and we will discuss some of the other collaborations that he has had with artists like Andrew Marlin.

This week we feature fiddle player Samantha Snyder Berry and talk with her about her life in bluegrass starting out as a young fiddler with her family's band and then moving on to play with folks like Darin and Brooke Aldridge.  We'll also talk about her teaching fiddle, teaching mathematics and writing and self-publishing a novel. 

This week we feature guitar player Jeff Autry.  Jeff has a fairly new single out and will have a new album out in the near future.  We talk with Jeff about that project as well as dive back into his long bluegrass career.

This week we feature singer, songwriter, and banjo and guitar player Tabitha Agnew Benedict of The Foreign Landers and talk with her about her unique bluegrass story and the band's newest project  Made To Wonder . You will also hear a couple of tracks from that album.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and guitar player Shannon Slaughter and talk with him about his career in bluegrass music, including the various bands who he has performed with, his work as a school teacher, his newest recording, his songwriting and recently making the move to Mountain Fever Records.

This week we feature California-based mandolin player Jesse Appelman.  We will talk about how he got interested in playing bluegrass mandolin, the many prominent California musicians who he has performed with, his ideas about teaching students how to play the mandolin and we'll also talk about his new CD.

This week we feature fiddler, singer and songwriter Tammy Rogers of The SteelDrivers.  We will talk about her career in bluegrass, her songwriting, The SteelDrivers recent Grammy nomination and the band celebrating their 20 year anniversary last year. 

This week we feature banjo player Barry Abernathy of the Appalachian Road Show.  We'll talk with Barry about his early days in bluegrass performing with Doyle Lawson and Mountain Heart and then we will talk about Appalachian Road Show's newest recording and you will hear a cut from that album.

This week we feature Rebekah Speer and talk with her about her life in bluegrass, her work as an audio engineer, graphic designer, songwriter and recording artist.  We'll also talk about her newest single and you will get to listen to that single towards the end of the podcast.

This week we feature mandolin player Wayne Benson and talk with him about his long career in bluegrass music, the recent recorded collaborations with his wife Kristin Scott Benson and his YouTube channel for mandolin players.   You'll also hear a some music from Wayne and Kristin.