The Rick Dollar Show Podcast!

On this episode, Rick cracks on three of our most entertaining interviews from on the road! First, Rick and the guys visit Grammy winning artist Ricky Skaggs from the Barter Theater in Abingdon Virginia. After some sleep, they trek down to Bristol Virginia to interview Carl Jackson, Larry Cordle and jerry Salley at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum! Lastly Nashville, here we come to make an a...

Florida's Americana ensemble Remedy Tree has achieved notable success, securing second place at the prestigious SPBGMA National Band Championship. They've sold out most of their summer tour and have hit ticket sales milestones. Following their signing with Mountain Fever Records in 2024, the band has performed internationally, showcasing their talents at Ireland's Westport Folk and Blu...

On the heels of two Grammy-winning albums in succession, with her band Golden Highway—2022’s Crooked Tree and 2023’s City of Gold —plus a nomination for Best New Artist, Molly Tuttle returns with a solo album that’s her most dazzling to date: So Long Little Miss Sunshine .  Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson, Eric Church, Cage the Elephant),...

Josh Williams  is a highly skilled and accomplished musician. Over the years, Josh has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest musicians of his generation. He has shared the stage with many renowned artists, including Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Special Consensus, and Tony Rice. Josh has released a total of five solo albums, all of which have been critically acclaimed. He has als...

History and heritage naturally go hand in hand, and the desire to preserve the former is generally maintained by preserving the latter. Singer, songwriter and musician Marty Falle knows that all too well. His connection to the traditional music of Appalachia was spawned from spending much of his time after graduating from college living in Kentucky, the place where bluegrass was born. Now living o...

GRAMMY nominated fiddler and vocalist Laura Orshaw has toured throughout North America and Europe with Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. With her first solo recording receiving significant attention and airplay, Orshaw’s highly anticipated sophomore album with Dark Shadow Recording is expected to be release in early 2026.  In 2020 Laura w...

Few bands have made as lasting an impact on bluegrass music as The Grascals. From the very beginning, their blend of modern traditional bluegrass, gospel, and country influences, matched with world-class musicianship and an unshakable love for the genre, has earned them a spot among the most respected and enduring groups in acoustic music. Formed in 2004 in Nashville, Tennessee, The Grascals are a...

“I started singing before I could talk,” says Roberts. “Singing was just something I always did.” As a child of Music City, Jaelee Roberts was raised on bluegrass. She spent her formative years alternating between watching her dad make music on stage and watching her mom make music happen behind-the-scenes. By her teenage years, Roberts was pursuing her goals with single-minded focus. She switched...

Referred to by Billboard Magazine as “One of Music Row’s greatest veteran tunesmiths,” Jerry Salley has had an exceptionally successful, multi award-winning songwriting career.  Nominated in 2019 for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Salley is the 2018 & 2019 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Songwriter of the Year and was named the 2003 SESAC Country Music Songwriter of t...

Jeremy Garrett has been playing music since he first picked up the fiddle at the age of three, encouraged by his father, a guitarist steeped in Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys and its guitar/banjo duo of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs. The two formed a band together, the Grasshoppers, and that helped launch Jeremy’s 45-year – and counting — career as a musician. Born in California, Garrett grew up i...

Rick Faris is a Kansas Music Hall of Fame Member who was recently awarded the “Songwriter of the Year” at the 2024  International Bluegrass Music Association  Awards making him an 8-time IBMA Award winner. In addition, Rick won the coveted “New Artist of the Year” in 2022. Faris also spent 11 years with  Special Consensus  while the band earned two GRAMMY nominations before embarking on his chart-...

There’s something of Missy Raines in every song she records or performs. Whether she wrote it herself or selected it from another songwriter, she’s lived inside the story and the sound. And she wants you to experience it alongside her.  Love & Trouble , Raines’ latest album with her band Allegheny, offers views from the highest peaks of her native West Virginia and from the deepest hollers of...

Celebrating nine seasons on Discovery Channel’s hit series, “Moonshiners”, comedian Killer Beaz is touring the nation, when not filming.  With decades of comedy clubs and theatres, television and radio, Killer Beaz is legendary in the comedy industry.  Beaz continues to make regular stops with his outrageously, funny and clean comedy show to The Grand Ole Opry stage.  Tickets and information for h...

Great music just keeps on coming for Joe Caverlee! Not only has Joe been the band leader for Tracey Lawrence for a great while, but every country artist I know needs a bluegrass record! I'm sure hanging out with Hank Williams Junior and Kid Rock does not hurt! It's all in a day's work for Rick Dollar from The Rick dollar Show!

On this week's episode, Rick chats with Ray Cardwell! Ray talks about working with music legend Dave Mason, his friend and mentor John Cowan, his new record deal with Americana Vibes, and his great experience working with Jeremy Garrett from The Infamous Stringdusters!

Michael Cleveland Rocks! Do not miss this show! Please take my word for it!

Rick's guest this week is award-winning musician Tim Rabon!

RICK CAUGHT UP WITH MOUNTAIN FEVER ARTIST AMANDA COOK AT RANDY WOODS GUITAR SHOP IN SAVANNAH GEORGIA!

Rick Dollar sits down to interview the guys from Mountain Grass Unit! In this rare interview, the guys discuss their new music, playing the Renewal Festival in Colorado and the unexpected year, they have had!

Rick has an incredible opportunity to speak with Graham Sharp, the talented founding member and virtuoso banjo player of the legendary bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers. Known for their captivating melodies and heartfelt lyrics, this group has made a significant mark on the music scene, and hearing from Graham is sure to be an enlightening experience!

Rick has a heart to heart with Heather Berry Mabe from Red Camel Collective! Heather chats about their hit song, "Daughter of the Stars", the not so complex meaning of the song and how music can heal us all!

There's nothing like having a conversation about music! Cory Walker from East Nash Grass is just the guy! Don't miss this episode of The Rick Dollar Show Podcast!

On this week's episode, Rick chats with the guys from FULL CORD! The conversation goes from their new project to the Michigan Bluegrass scene, the magic that happens at Dark Shadow Recording and looking forward to the future!

Rick revisits an old friend, Country music star Zach Top! Even Country-music Stars like to go back to their roots sometimes!

On this week's Episode, Rick chats with Laura Orshaw about her new project, and how her world has turned upside down for the better!