Just about a year ago, Dale Pyatt recorded a song he wrote with Charlie Hall, celebrating the illustrious career of Secretariat, perhaps the most celebrated race horse in the 20th century. It was initially available only through The Secretariat Foundation,
Mark Newton and Steve Thomas are the latest artists to be signed by Pinecastle Records, it has been announced today. A new duo project, Reborn, is scheduled for an April 9 release. Both of these fine musicians have enjoyed a long
Today (1/8/13) marks the season premiere of Justified, one of the few television dramas I follow week to week. I discovered the show two years ago quite by chance, when an episode began after something else I had on. In
We posted last summer about plans by Ken Scoggins & Millers Creek to finish a new Gospel album they expect to release on Old Homestead Records this year. Ken shared with us recently that after getting started at Tom T. Hall's studio
I had a lovely chat recently with Pete Goble, one of the most prolific songwriters we have in bluegrass music, and a man who has "been there, done that" as far as most any aspect of bluegrass in the latter
We have just learned that Larry McDaniel, longtime Detroit bluegrass radio personality, passed away this morning (1/4/13) at his home in Grosse Pointe, MI. He was 72 years old. His show, The Arkansas Traveller, ran on WDET 101.9 FM from 1977 to 2009,
Talented multi-instrumentalist Jayd Raines will be starting the new year back with Marty Raybon & Full Circle. Jayd worked almost 2 full years with Marty between 2007-2009, playing bass and singing harmony vocals. I caught them at IBMA during his stead,
Big Country Bluegrass has announced veteran multi-instrumentalist Tim Laughlin as their newest member. Tim will play both fiddle and mandolin, and share in harmony vocals. The band had been using fill-ins since fiddler Jeff Michael departed in February of 2012 -
Since taking his leave from Lou Reid & Carolina in July of 2012, Shannon Slaughter has been hard at work on a new project with his wife, Heather. They are settled now in Alabama, and have been working with their
Roby Huffman, popular singer and bandleader in eastern North Carolina, passed away on December 29, 2012. He was 74 years old, and had been ill since being diagnosed with lung cancer a few months back. Huffman toured internationally with his band,
