John Lupton has co-hosted “Rural Free Delivery” on WVUD-FM at the University of Delaware since 1989, and has been a regular contributor to Sing Out! since 1996. For more than 25 years he has been a board member of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, promoters of the annual Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, and since 1998 has been on the board of the Green Willow Folk Club, a Delaware venue dedicated to Celtic and British Isles music. John retired in 2014 after more than 35 years in the computer support business, including two decades at the University of Pennsylvania. He believes that facing adversity builds character, and while anyone can be a Yankees fan, it takes true fortitude and guts to be a Phillies fan for 60 years, as he has proudly been. John’s wife is the noted folk music photographer Jayne Toohey.
BRYAN SUTTON Into My Own Sugar Hill www.sugarhillrecords.com Since coming to the attention of the acoustic music scene, particularly the bluegrass crowd in the late 1990s as a member of Ricky Skaggs’ band Kentucky … Continue reading →
Kathy Kallick Cut to the Chase Live Oak 590 www.kathykallick.com More than a decade before the arrival on the scene in the late 1980s of the teenaged wunderkind Alison Krauss, a band called The Good … Continue reading →
SUTTON, HOLT & COLEMAN Ready For the Times High Windy Audio 1264 www.davidholt.com Billed as a tribute to the late Doc Watson, this trio does indeed have a cumulative total of several decades of … Continue reading →
ADAM STEFFEY New Primitive Organic 14692 www.Organic-Records.com Adam Steffey spent much of the 1990s holding down the mandolin slot in Alison Krauss’ band, Union Station. Since leaving Krauss he has been involved in a … Continue reading →
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS Lonely Comes Easy Rebel 1847 www.rebelrecords.com There is a healthy and longstanding tradition of country and bluegrass musicians doubling as radio DJs and becoming as widely known for their … Continue reading →
RON BLOCK Walking Song Rounder 9167 www.rounder.com Ron Block is familiar to bluegrass and mainstream country music fans by virtue of his long tenure as banjo player and guitarist in Alison Krauss’ band Union … Continue reading →
THE DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE Good Man Down David Mayfield 002 www.thedavidmayfieldparade.com Given that David Mayfield has been involved in a wide variety of musical endeavors ranging from the family bluegrass band he grew up playing … Continue reading →
DON RIGSBY Doctor’s Orders: A Tribute To Ralph Stanley Rebel 1841 www.rebelrecords.com Even if Don Rigsby had not become captivated by the music of Ralph Stanley at the age of five (and met him … Continue reading →
STONE BLIND VALENTINE Burn Like A Field Stone Blind Valentine www.stoneblindvalentine.com It takes more than a bit of musical confidence and know-how to meld a proudly contemporary sense of songwriting and lyricism with an … Continue reading →
SLOCAN RAMBLERS Shaking Down the Acorns Slocan Ramblers www.slocanramblers.com A lot of good bluegrass has come out of Canada over the decades, and Toronto has surprisingly become something of a hotbed for the music … Continue reading →
