• West Virginia Style coming back in June

    West Virginia banjo man, Darrell Sanders, recently announced plans to release an instrumental recording titled West Virginia Style. Originally recorded in 1983 and pressed in vinyl, the project was released on Webco Records, and has been out of print for

  • New Larry Stephenson CD in May

    Compass Records has announced May 29 as the release date for What Really Matters, a new CD from Larry Stephenson, his first for the Nashville-based label. There are no audio samples available yet for public consumption, but the tracks I've heard

  • Bill Monroe Appreciation Night at the Station Inn

    Tomorrow (12/3) marks the 15th Annual Bill Monroe Appreciation Night at Nashville's Station Inn. Each year during the holiday season, Music City's bluegrass royalty get together to honor the man who started it all. Saturday night's show will be hosted by Roland

  • Larry Stephenson in the studio

    We just got an update from the Larry Stephenson Band, who have been hard at work this week at the Compass Records studio tracking for their next project, coincidentally set for release on Compass in 2012. With Larry was his current

  • Larry Stephenson to Compass

    Compass Records has announced that Larry Stephenson has signed a multi-album deal with the label, and will begin work in October on a new project for a 2012 release. He will be working at Compass' studio in Nashville, with Ben

  • Digital re-releases from Pinecastle

    New Pinecastle owner Lonnie Lassiter is doing much more than just resurrecting the label after health issues forced founder Tom Riggs to retire in February 2010. They are in the process of creating digital re-issues from the deep catalog of

  • Sterling Belcher RIP

    We are sorry to report that festival promoter Sterling Belcher passed away on Saturday (1/30). Sterling managed the Festival In The Pines in Rocky Mt, VA for the past 30 years, and was father-in-law to bluegrass entertainer Larry Stephenson, who

  • Larry Stephenson annouces Whysper Dream Music

    Larry Stephenson's 20th Anniversary CD, with the delightfully appropriate title 20th Anniversary, was released earlier this week on his brand new label, Whysper Dream Music. The label takes its name from he and Dreama's baby girl, Falon Whysper, whose birth