Search Results for Earls of Leicester

Interviews and Profiles

Guitarist Shawn Camp of the Earls of Leicester Gets to Wear a Colonel Sanders String Tie & Emulate Lester Flatt—Life is Good

Covering a range of standards and rarities, these 17 new tracks with guitarist Shawn Camp find the Earls of Leicester at the top of their game.

Kenny Berkowitz
February 16, 2017

News

Earls of Leicester Take Top Prize at Bluegrass Awards, Watch Them Perform ‘Black Eyed Susie’

Earls of Leicester took home the top prize—Entertainer of the Year—at the 27th Annual International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, held in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 29. It was the second consecutive Entertainer of the Year win for the bluegrass…

Whitney Phaneuf
October 10, 2016

Album Reviews

The Earls of Leicester Combine Standards and Rarities on ‘Rattle & Roar’

They’re not trying to recapture these Flatt and Scruggs songs, they’re trying to keep them alive

Kenny Berkowitz
September 8, 2016

Country & Americana

Jerry Douglas Performs “Foggy Mountain Rock” on His Blackbeard Resonator | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place

jerry douglass acoustic guitar sessions in place

For this AG Sessions in Place Jerry Douglas performs "Foggy Mountain Rock," a rocking bluegrass tune made famous by Josh Graves with Flatt and Scruggs.

Joey Lusterman
October 11, 2020

Instrumentalists

Dobro Master Jerry Douglas on Building Musical Conversations

Jerry Douglas seems to be everywhere. Apart from fronting his eponymous Jerry Douglas Band, he boasts a 20-year tenure with Alison Krauss and Union Station, as well as a crucial role in a supergroup of sorts, the Earls of Leicester,…

Lee Zimmerman
November 5, 2018