On tour
Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, United States (March 20); Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, United States (March 20); Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, United States (March 20); Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro, United States (April 24)
Artist Info
Genre
folk
Origin
Bowling Green, United States (4/13/1952)
Bio
Sam Bush (born: 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is a virtuoso American bluegrass musician. Bush plays mandolin, fiddle and guitar as well as being an accomplished bluegrass vocalist.
Has Performed With
Sam Bush Band, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck
Artist Website

Critic Concert Reviews
Glide Magazine (USA)
October 21, 2025
Sam Bush Embraces Portland, OR’s Defiant Spirit with Feisty Newgrass Tunes Set Feat. Randy Newman, Muddy Waters, Peter Rowan, Tom Petty Covers

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Grateful Web (USA)
March 10, 2022
Closing out February, Fort Collins’ premier venue Washington’s brought back yet another living legend to the front range of Northern Colorado. Innovators of bluegrass and beyond, Sam Bush and his incredible band, consisting of Steve Mougin on guitar, Wes Corbett on banjo, Todd Parks on bass, and Chris Brown on drums, p

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Local Spins (USA)
October 7, 2021
Wednesday's kickoff to the Grand Rapids venue's Acoustic Café Folk Series boasted a celebratory, rootsy, communal vibe courtesy of the Sam Bush Band. The Local Spins review and photos.

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Glide Magazine (USA)
July 19, 2021
Sam Bush wrapped up a brief four-day Northeast/Mid-Atlantic run of shows on Sunday, July 18, at Stages in Cockeysville, MD, with a rousing two-hour set filled with Bush originals and bluegrass standards.

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Grateful Web (USA)
March 16, 2020
The month of March marks the end of winter and the onset of spring. Last March Tuesday followed suit, with the conclusion of the winter tour of the legendary Colonel of Bluegrass Sam Bush.

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Country Standard Time (USA)
April 4, 2018
Sam Bush is typically considered part of the bluegrass crowd. Now, you wouldn't necessarily have thought so the way he attacked that electric mandolin of his during a stirringly, lengthy, hair raising encore of the Allmans' "Midnight Rider" and Grand Funk Railroad's "I'm Your Captain" along with a snippet of

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Grateful Web (USA)
November 12, 2017
The original bluegrass players such as Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were indeed innovators.

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Past critic reviews published in
Grateful Web (USA), Country Standard Time (USA), Grateful Web (USA), Glide Magazine (USA), Parklife DC (USA) and more
Image Credit
Chris Rice [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons