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Bluegrass Briefing - November 2026

Here's your Bluegrass Briefing for November, our monthly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff

Bitesize - Marcel Ardans on Billy Strings' Guitar Style

This week's episode features a segment of a conversation I had a while back with Marcel Ardans of the Lessons With Marcel YouTube channel. Marcel has spent hundreds

Chris Thile - The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers

My guest this week is Chris Thile and he joins me to chat about The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers.  We talk about how the album came together and why, after 20 yea

Matt Combs - Fifty Years of Clown School

My guest this week is fiddler, string arranger, composer and session musician Matt Combs. After decades working in the service of other people's music, including a

Kristy Cox - Turning Heartbreak into Hope Through Songwriting

My guest this week is singer-songwriter Kristy Cox and we're chatting about her brand new album 'Winds of Change', due out on October 9th. Kristy explains

Bertolf - From The Netherlands to Nashville (and Back Again)

My guest this week is Bertolf Lentink, better know as simply Bertolf. Bertolf grew up listening to bluegrass at home in the Netherlands with his parents and learned to p

Julian Lage on World's Fair, Playing Solo and the Art of Interpretation

My guest this week is Julian Lage and we're talking about his extraordinary solo guitar album 'World's Fair'. Julian will be known to many of you as

Bluegrass Briefing - September 2026

Welcome to this month’s Bluegrass Briefing, a monthly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentione

Sean Sullivan - Capturing More Than Just Music

My guest this week is 5 time Grammy award winning engineer, mixer and producer Sean Sullivan. Sean has worked with dozens of artists, including Sturgill Simpson, Tyler C

Lindsay Lou - Bluegrass Women

My guest this week is Lindsay Lou. I chatted with Lindsay a while back, about her record Queen of Time. This time we're talking about her brand new record Bluegrass

Bluegrass Briefing - August 2026

Welcome to this month’s Bluegrass Briefing, a monthly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentione

Repost: Brittany Haas on joining Punch Brothers

To celebrate Punch Brothers' new record, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, I'm reposting a fascinating conversation I had with Brittany Haas after she jo

Jerry Douglas - Celebrating Boone Creek

My guest this week is Jerry Douglas and we're celebrating the reissue of Boone Creek's first album. Boone Creek has a fascinating story behind it, which we cov

Scott Billington - Reissuing Classic Bluegrass Albums for Craft Recordings

My guest this week is Scott Billington. Scott is a Grammy winning record producer, an author, a record company exec and a musician. But what we're chatting about in

Bluegrass Briefing - July 2026

Welcome to the Bluegrass Briefing for July 2026, your monthly look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass and beyond. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this

Bitesize - Tristan Scroggins on Authenticity and Identity in Bluegrass

This week's Bitesize episode comes from a fascinating conversation I had with Tristan Scroggins in 2021. In this section Tristan reflects on what it means to come t

Missy Raines on The Seldom Scene Act Two

My guest this week is Missy Raines and we're talking about one of her all time favourite records - The Seldom Scene's Act Two We talk about how Missy grew up l

Bluegrass Briefing - June 2026

Welcome to the June 2026 Bluegrass Briefing, a monthly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mention

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck - The Fiddle and the Drum

My guests on the podcast this week have an astonishing 24 Grammy awards between them and they represent two musical world I love - the first is bluegrass and string band

The Tim O'Brien Songbook

My guest this week is Tim O'Brien and he joins me to chat about 'The Tim O'Brien Songbook', a handpicked selection of 40 of his songs, complete with n