Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Andrew Collins

This week we feature guitar player, singer and songwriter Paige Anderson.  We'll talk about her early work with her family band and subsequent work with her siblings in a band called The Fearless Kin.  We then talk with Paige about her most recent work with the band Two Runner and you will get to hear several of Paige's original songs that she recorded with Two Runner.     

This week we feature multi-instrumentalist Robert Bowlin.  Robert has performed with many bluegrass and country artists over the years and has the distinction of being Bill Monroe's last fiddle player.  We talk with Robert about his career in bluegrass, his newest projects and his schedule for the summer of 2026.

This week we feature Canadian mandolin player Andrew Collins.  We talk with Andrew about his background in music leading up to a discussion about the Andrew Collins Trio's newest project titled Retro.  You'll also hear a couple of tracks from that album.

This week we feature guitar player and singer David Parmley.  We talk with David about his induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame last fall, along with his Bluegrass Cardinals bandmates.  He will also tell us about the history of that band and we will follow his career up through the release of his newest music. 

This week we feature guitar player Jordan Tice and talk with him about his career in bluegrass starting with the release of his first solo album when he was still a teenager.  We'll talk about his other solo album releases over the years, his work with Hawktail and we will discuss some of the other collaborations that he has had with artists like Andrew Marlin.

This week we feature fiddle player Samantha Snyder Berry and talk with her about her life in bluegrass starting out as a young fiddler with her family's band and then moving on to play with folks like Darin and Brooke Aldridge.  We'll also talk about her teaching fiddle, teaching mathematics and writing and self-publishing a novel. 

This week we feature guitar player Jeff Autry.  Jeff has a fairly new single out and will have a new album out in the near future.  We talk with Jeff about that project as well as dive back into his long bluegrass career.

This week we feature singer, songwriter, and banjo and guitar player Tabitha Agnew Benedict of The Foreign Landers and talk with her about her unique bluegrass story and the band's newest project Made To Wonder. You will also hear a couple of tracks from that album.

This week we feature singer, songwriter and guitar player Shannon Slaughter and talk with him about his career in bluegrass music, including the various bands who he has performed with, his work as a school teacher, his newest recording, his songwriting and recently making the move to Mountain Fever Records.

This week we feature California-based mandolin player Jesse Appelman.  We will talk about how he got interested in playing bluegrass mandolin, the many prominent California musicians who he has performed with, his ideas about teaching students how to play the mandolin and we'll also talk about his new CD.