Sam Bush stood alone on Navy Pier’s Skyline Stage Wednesday, chording and chopping on his mandolin. The evening’s mystery man, guitarist Bryan Sutton–replacing the ailing Tony Rice for this leg of the ...

While living in Lexington in the 1970s, Jerry Douglas started to expand beyond bluegrass. Courtesy of Jerry Douglas It was a Friday afternoon in June 1986. Jerry Douglas took the stage at the Festival ...

Miranda Lambert’s new solo album, Four the Record, begins with a backwoods dobro solo over a marching-band drum pattern, a collision of sounds that sets up the song’s title, “All Kinds of Kinds.” It’s ...