The Lonesome River Band

The Lonesome River Band, under the leadership of banjo picker Sammy Shelor of Meadows of Dan, Virginia, is celebrating 35 years in 2017.  It's been an impressive force on the bluegrass scene since

This week, as the fiddlers' convention season in the south really gets underway, we check out some songs and tunes old and new from the Virginia mountains.  In the southwestern part of Virginia, Ga