• Carter Brothers on Blue Plate Special

    Tim and Danny Carter, The Carter Brothers, are heading to Knoxville for a live appearance at noon today on Blue Plate Special, which airs daily during the week on WDVX. Though the brothers are sometimes known for mixing acoustic and electric

  • Lonesome County on Woodsongs

    Lonesome County made an appearance on The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour in December of last year. They perform primarily on a regional basis near their home in Michigan, and guitarist/vocalist Chad Jeremy said that he sent submissions in to Woodsongs

  • iTunes bluegrass landing page

    Regular iTunes users with a taste for bluegrass have noted the fact that Apple shows no special love for our music. Despite repeated requests from bluegrass labels, Apple has yet to create a "genre" listing for bluegrass, or a separate

  • Gracie Muldoon hospitalized

    Popular online radio host Gracie Muldoon has been hospitalized after suffering a mini-stroke on Thursday morning. Gracie is both a regular host and General Manager of WorldWideBluegrass, a 24/7 bluegrass stream available online. Vicki Abbot, Assistant Station Manager at WWB, tells

  • Everyone Is Talking – Farewell Drifters

    The 5th installment in The Farewell Drifters' video series for their upcoming Yellow Tag Mondays CD release is out. It's an introduction to Zach Bevill's song, Everyone Is Talking, which was featured in a music video earlier this year. Zach explains

  • Dierks on Knee Deep In Bluegrass

    He's everywhere...! As we mentioned yesterday, Dierks Bentley is making quite a promotional splash for his new CD, Up On The Ridge. The music and entertainment press is buzzing about Bentley releasing an acoustic, heavily bluegrass album after several very successful

  • Photos from EWOB 2010

    Jan de Mooy has sent us another fine collection of photos he took during the recent European World of Bluegrass in Voorthuizen, Netherlands. He had sent along a nice gallery from EWOB which we published after the festivals in 2009

  • Gordon Stone banjo tab book

    Vermont banjo picker Gordon Stone has a well-earned reputation for melding the 3 finger banjo style with other idioms, among them jazz and African folk music. He has toured and recorded widely, but has not yet attained the sort of

  • Vote for Swedish Bluegrass

    Talang 2010 is the 2010 version of Sweden's Got Talent. Swedish bluegrass group Cold Mountain Band made it as far as the semi-finals before the show's judges passed over them. But it's not over yet. Only two groups were selected

  • Crooked Still on Woodsongs

    We've written several times of late about Some Strange Country, the fine new CD from Crooked Still. There were a couple of videos, and a lengthy interview with banjoist Greg Liszt published here earlier this month. The band also appeared recently