Bluegrass has come a far way from it’s roots. It’s joined forces with rock, jazz, and world music – and created a new generation of amazing musicians playing this exciting new mashup: Newgrass. AKA “New Acoustic”, or “Modern bluegrass”. Odds are you’ve heard it and loved it, even if you didn’t know what it was called ; ) What is Newgrass? …

I recently ran into this video by Ian Ethan Case and was blown away.  His amazing talent is to rock a double-necked acoustic guitar with two-handed tapping, strumming, and harmonics. Believe me, it falls squarely in the “face-melting” category of guitar playing. Coinciding with my own personal discovery of him, he happened to be releasing a new album the same …