• Flor de canciones from The Cubero Brothers

    Our Spanish bluegrass buddies, The Cubero Brothers (Los Hermanos Cubero), have released their latest album, Flor de canciones. Like their previous projects, it features brothers Roberto and Enrique Cubero performing their mix of traditional Iberian folk music with the mandolin and guitar techniques

  • Alison Krauss in Boston

    This brief report and gallery come from David Moultrup. Alison Krauss filled Copley Square in Boston with an enthusiastic audience to close out the Summer Arts Festival on Sunday (7/28). The music was held in the park that recently was

  • Bluegrass in the Mad Scientist Journal

    Here's something you don't see every day... The Spring 2013 edition of the Mad Scientist Journal, an ezine of sci-fi, horror, and humorous stories, contains an entry that combines the themes of bluegrass and alien visitation. Chuck the Alien, written by

  • Jeff Clair to Lonesome Day

    Lonesome Day Records has announced the signing of Jeff Clair to the label, with a new project scheduled for next year. Clair's debut album, They Called Him Jesus, was released in late 2012. It was warmly greeted by fans of traditional

  • Bittersweet – Alice Gerrard

    This review is a contribution from Louisa Branscomb, one of bluegrass music's most prolific and celebrated songwriters. Do the math: a legendary singer-songwriter singing her own, plus a producer who understands the impressive scope of the material and how to render

  • Loretta Lynn in Charlottesville

    OK... we know she's not bluegrass. But we thought readers would enjoy seeing this gallery of images Milo Farineau shot last night when Loretta Lynn brought her show to the nTelos Pavilion in Charlottesville, VA. Charlottesville resident Sissy Spacek, who

  • Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers Take Opry Bow

    “There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too Bill Monroe singin' out them ol' Kentucky Blues Ernest Tubb's number Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right At the Grand Ole Opry ev'ry Saturday night” Grand Ole Opry Song, Jimmy Martin It’s an appearance