Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Andy Leftwich
Release Date: 11/13/2025
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jack Lawrence
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This week we feature guitar player Jack Lawrence and talk with him about his early years in bluegrass, the many years he spent performing with Doc Watson and what he will be teaching to flatpicking guitar players in August 2026 at the Monroe Mandolin Camp.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Sara Watkins
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This week we feature fiddle player, songwriter and singer Sara Watkins, famously of Nickel Creek and now performing with I’m With Her. We talk with Sara about the Nickel Creek days and what I’m With Her has going on this year, including the recent release or their live album.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Ralph Stanley II
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This week we are featuring Ralph Stanley II. We talk with Ralph about his life growing up in bluegrass as the son of a bluegrass legend and we will talk about this year’s upcoming Dr. Ralph Stanley Hills of Home Bluegrass Festival held at the Stanley homeplace over Memorial Day Weekend. We’ll also talk about the Stanley Brothers recent induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Randy Barnes
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This week we feature bass and guitar player Randy Barnes and talk with him about the many bluegrass bands that he has performed with over the years and his new solo recording on Mountain Fever Records.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Paige Anderson
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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.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Robert Bowlin
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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.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Andrew Collins
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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.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with David Parmley
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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.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Jordan Tice
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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.
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Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Samantha Snyder Berry
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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.
info_outlineThis week we feature mandolin player and fiddler Andy Leftwich and talk with him about his early days playing fiddle contests, joining Valerie Smith at age 15 and then Ricky Skaggs' band at age 19. He spent about 12 years playing with Skaggs and has since moved on and recently recorded a couple of new albums. His album The American Fiddler came out in 2022 and his new yet to be titled album will come out early in 2026. We talk with Andy about all of that and more.