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On his new eponymous effort, Jonny Estep comes across as a veritable one man music machine. Aside from the fact that he wrote every song, he also sings them all and plays all the instruments, including guitar, mandolin, banjo and

It is extremely rare for a record company to release two albums by the same artist simultaneously, but that is precisely what Billy Blue Records has done with Authentic Unlimited's two new projects, and for the second time! Today we

The newest offering from Junior Sisk on Mountain Fever Records is the masterfully recorded and produced, If There's a Will, There’s a Way. Junior shared, "We played and sang our hearts out, and strived to come up with the best

DownRiver Collective began as a trio in 2018, but has since expanded into a five piece ensemble which includes Ali Vance on lead vocals, Bailey Warren on fiddle and harmony vocals, John Gray on banjo, guitar, and harmony vocals, Jonny

Cascade Highway marks an auspicious debut for singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Bo Randall, a 33 year old musician raised in Southern California, formerly based in Seattle, and now living in Milwaukee for, he says, "a change of pace, the thriving

Thirty five years ago, tenor singer and mandolinist Larry Stephenson struck out on his own and formed a group that's maintained strong vocal harmonies and first rate musicianship for several decades. Stephenson's latest release, Cast a Lonesome Shadow combines new, original material

Maxton Byrd, recipient of the 2024 Alan Perdue Award at the Seagrove Fiddlers'Convention with the Perdue family - photo © G. Nicholas Hancock The 69th Annual Seagrove Fiddlers’ Convention returned Saturday night to the small pottery town in central North Carolina.

Marty Falle finds a natural fit when it comes to his love of bluegrass. That's been the case since early on, when he was inadvertently introduced to the form by a fictitious bluegrass group called the Darlings, the band that

This article is a contributions from Bluegrass Canada, the bluegrass music association of Canada, and their quarterly magazine by the same name. Editor Mike Higgins has promised to send us regular updates from the scene up north, and assures us

Though Brooklyn native Alex Graf began his musical journey as a jazz guitarist, he's more recently moved into the bluegrass and acoustic realm. Graf's debut release, Sagebrush Continuum, is a collection of tunes centered around Alex's flatpicking and improvisational sensibilities.  The opening track, Rock