Hank Smith and Lindsey Tims

Published: Oct. 6, 2014, 4 p.m.

b'When you\\u2019ve got an area as firmly entrenched in tradition as North Carolina is, you\\u2019re guaranteed to have a slew of bluegrass aficionados. Folks like Hank Smith and Lindsey Tims are proof of this, two musicians who are doing their damndest to expand the horizons of a genre that many may pigeonhole as a niche, or static genre. Throughout our hour long conversation, we covered a wide array of topics ranging from the recent IBMA Festival in Raleigh, the evolution of the bluegrass genre and where their traditional roots have taken them as musicians.'