Another music festival will be settling in Franklin (near Nashville) this June. The Cross County Lines Music Festival will take place at The Factory at Franklin, put on by the Americana Music Association. The concert will help raise funds for the program and help test the waters for a potentially expanding annual event. The initial [...]

For three weeks the city of Savannah, Georgia plays host to a wonderfully unique music festival that features classical, jazz, folk and bluegrass artists.  American Songwriter Magazine headed south to check out some of the best shows the Savannah Music Festival had to offer. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell  Neither Harris nor Crowell play sidekick to [...]

If you want to legitimize your band in the pantheon of rock and roll, you can do a whole lot worse than a duet with Emmylou Harris. The silver-haired songwriter’s discography includes collaborations with Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson and Neil Young, and her contributions to albums by Bob Dylan and Gram Parsons are legendary. She’s [...]

He’s played on more than 1600 albums and won a baker’s dozen worth of Grammy Awards, but master Dobro player Jerry Douglas is still capable of moving outside his comfort zone — and that’s exactly what he did during the sessions for his latest album, Traveler, which finds him playing alongside an eyebrow-raising array of [...]

Mandolin wunderkind gets a little help from her friends.

Our tech guru Matt Reasor sat down with Jerry Douglas after Election Night to talk about his life, dreams and his new Fishman Solo Amp.