Correction: Thanks to Adam Steffey for pointing out that Ronnie Bowman is responsible for the outstanding vocal on “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends.” We’ve updated the review to reflect that info.

It takes a talented vocalist to tackle the Ronnie Milsap classic, “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends,” written by the great Kris Kristofferson.

Remember that ballad of lost love? It’s the one where Milsap magically makes his falsetto voice appear out of nowhere on the track.

Well, Adam Steffey evidentally wasn’t intimidated by Milsap’s…

Lyons, CO., — Planet Bluegrass announces the addition of Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas to the lineup for the 37th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 17-20 in Telluride, Colorado. This festival performance will be one of a very select number of 2010 shows…

Which one of these Bluegrass Bass Players can hold down the bottom the best and rise to the top this year?

Vote for your favorite Bass player and see if you and the readers of BluegrassJournal.com can pick the winners for the 2009 International Bluegrass Music Awards in our reader’s poll.

I’m not much into hero worship because people are people. And while they may often do heroic things, very few people are “a hero” all the time while alive, if they are human. We are all struggling each in our own way, almost everyone is heroic sometimes, and no one person is really fundamentally better than another person.

That caveat aside, I saw The Dan Tyminski Band at the Carter Family Fold [recently], and were I prone to hero worship I could probably go for those guys as deserving of some serious admiration.

The band is composed of Dan Tyminski, Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Justin Moses, and Barry Bales

I had been a fan of the musicians and music for quite a while, but had never seen them on TV or live….

Nashville, TN – July 16th – He’s one of the most widely admired mandolin players around, and the most influential in a generation or more, but when Adam Steffey finally got around to making his second solo album in eight years, Steffey knew just what he did… and didn’t want. “I wanted to go in and make a record, and have all these people that I work with be on it,” Steffey says, “but I didn’t want…