As promised, classical banjoist John Bullard is featured in the latest installment of Bud Bennett's Appalachian Music and Culture blog. Bud works in the McConnell Library’s Archives and Special Collections Department at Radford University in Virginia. He is also a banjo player who has blended
Southern rockers Confederate Railroad have a new album out today, and it retains their well-established image as gruff and gritty bad boys. There's plenty of Waylon and Willie to be found - quite literally, as guests Willie Nelson, John Anderson, and
New York bluegrass singer/songwriter Abby Hollander has released a live video of she and her band performing at the Rockwood Music Hall in lower Manhattan earlier this week. It's their arrangement of Mary Ann - not the classic Jimmy Martin song, but one
Mountain Home Music has released a second live video of Flatt Lonesome from their April 28 performance at the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. The entire show was recorded, both for audio and video, capturing this exciting young group before an
This Friday's release of Rattle & Roar from The Earls of Leicester is among the most eagerly anticipated albums of 2016 to date in the bluegrass and acoustic music world. Their success since first appearing in 2013 has surprised a
It's often said these days that if you could figure out and bottle what makes videos go viral online, you'd have a pot of gold on your hands. Every so often, something universal in the human condition is captured digitally,
Tom Nechville, banjo builder and the man behind the innovative Nechville Musical Products company, is the latest subject to sit for banjo archivist Bud Bennett and his Appalachian Music and Culture blog. Bud has to date posted lengthy, in-depth interviews with several notable banjo
Rebekah Long has released a music video for Ain't Life Sweet, the opening track on her newly-released Here I Am CD. It's a song she wrote with Donna Ulisse and Rick Stanley about the country life. Donna was her producer for
Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have released a new music video, recorded live during a June 4 performance at Randy Wood's Old Time Pickin' Parlor in Georgia. This time it's a bluegrass cover of a Tom T. Hall song from the
Mountain Home Music has released a live music video for Lonesome River Band. It's of them performing Rocking The Cradle at the Historic Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. The song is included on their current album, Bringing The Tradition, released earlier
