• Blistered Fingers report

    This festival report comes from our friend Katy Daley, morning host on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. She also sent along these photos from David Staples. Hurricane warnings were up all over New England but Saturday was beautiful for the 37th Blistered Fingers

  • A friendly Battle of the Bands

    The Boxcars and the Gibson Brothers have been crossing paths a lot lately, and not just on the festival circuit. Their current albums, the self-titled debut by the Boxcars and the Gibsons’ Help My Brother, have spent time at the

  • Gibson Brothers on Bluegrass Country

    This weekend's edition of Bluegrass Master Class on WAMU's Bluegrass Country will feature a lengthy interview with The Gibson Brothers. Eric and Leigh sat down with Katy Daley at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival this Spring to talk about their current CD,

  • A report from Gettysburg

    High gas prices and a chilly misty, rain didn’t seem to put much of a damper on Friday’s festivities at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Here are some tidbits I picked up while wandering around, listening and catching up with some

  • Joe Walsh – Sweet Loam

    Joe Walsh, mandolinist with The Gibson Brothers, has a new solo project, Sweet Loam, on his own Skinny Elephant label. It's the second under his name, which offers him a chance to stretch out a bit stylistically on mandolin, and

  • Random thoughts on a new bluegrass season

    Our roving correspondent David Morris shares a few loosely-related thoughts as we move forward into the 2011 festival season. THE GIBSONS SOAR. Could this be the year of the Gibson Brothers? A year after Ring the Bell won song of the

  • Gibson Brothers – Help My Brother

    Fellow bluegrass blogger Ted Lehmann has published a lengthy and detailed review of Help My Brother, the new CD from The Gibson Brothers, due February 22 from Compass Records. Ted goes song-by-song through the album, and includes more than a dozen

  • Help My Brother due February 22

    Compass Records has been promising the next Gibson Brothers album early this year, and have now announced a release date of February 22. Help My Brother contains 12 new tracks, many written by the singing/songwriting brother duo, and recorded by their

  • Gibson Brothers introduce Help My Brother

    The Gibson Brothers have created a video preview for, Help My Brother, their next Compass Records release which is due early next year. Eric and Leigh talk about the songs, the songwriters, and a number of guests artists - plus we