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Birthplace of newgrass music hosts 3-day festival
August 9, 2010
The world’s first International Newgrass Festival returns for year two August 20-22, 2010 at Ballance Farms in Oakland, Kentucky, honoring the . . . recently declared as the official Birthplace of Newgrass music and where the “Father of Newgrass” and festival headliner Sam Bush grew up.
Bush, Yoakam ready to WOW Utah crowd
August 7, 2010
Sam Bush, bluegrass singer and maestro of the mandolin and fiddle, is sometimes called the King of Telluride. Heaven knows, the man has earned the . . . while still a boy, taking first place three times as a teen in the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddler's Contest in Weiser, Idaho.
The Five | Incarnations of Sam Bush
July 23, 2010
It seems like Bowling Green, Ky., native Sam Bush has been around forever, such has been his musical influence. Just since the late-'60s, it turns . . . Tony Rice and Courtney Johnson on banjo. When Rice left to join Lexington's J.D. Crowe and The New South, guitarist Curtis Burch stepped in.
Mandolin Mastermind
June 30, 2010
The label “living legend” gets thrown around too much these days; however, a musician who best embodies such goes by the name “Sam Bush.” . . . came, we had all kind of mandolin pickers out there: Drew Emmitt, Tim O’Brien, Chris Thile, Sarah Jarosz, and I’m probably leaving out a few.
Bluegrass player Sam Bush talks about inspiration, beating cancer
June 30, 2010
If you get three-time Grammy winner Sam Bush's voicemail you might think it's Harry Caray or Will Ferrell doing his impression of the late, great . . . my mother played the guitar. Maybe I'm like Bill Monroe – I got the one that was left over. The sound of the mandolin is still magical to me.
Sam Bush Comes Full Circle
June 29, 2010
Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist Sam Bush doesn’t seem old enough to be a musical legend. And he’s not. But he is. Circles Around Me, . . . moment in my life to go back and revisit some things that I’ve loved all my life, which is bluegrass and, unapologetically, newgrass,” says Bush.
Video – New Grass Revival – Love Someone Like Me
May 15, 2010
New Grass Revival with John Cowan, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, & Pat Flynn, on Love Someone Like Me.
Sam Bush on Facebook
September 11, 2009
Sam Bush on MySpace
September 10, 2009
Sam Bush Website
September 9, 2009