Author: Brance

You have may have noticed our new look. Early this afternoon John and I took a fancy and decided to redecorate for the holidays. It's just a temporary thing and everything will be back to normal after the 1st of

Earlier this week I posted about the new Bear Family box set of Bill Monroe material. In an effort to clarify which Monroe albums are represented in the set, Richard Thompson did a little independent research. Richard correctly concluded that tracks

Frank Solivan II has announced plans to hold a one day Mandolin clinic in Alexandria, VA on Saturday January 13, 2007. Frank plays mandolin with Country Current, the US Navy's country and bluegrass band. We interviewed Frank recently on The

The Lexington Herald ran a story yesterday about Ernie Thacker and how he has continued to perform despite his auto accident earlier this year. We've spoken about his accident and recovery before here on Bluegrass Today and we're glad to

Listen now: (IE users click to activate) This week on The GrassCast we continue our interview with bluegrass legend Paul Williams. Last week we took a look at Paul's background in the music business, how he got started, and

Bear Family Records recently announced an upcoming CD box set from the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. The set consists of 4 CDs containing material recorded by Monroe between the years of 1981 and 1994. The tracks come from Master of

In our original post about this election it seems we had the wrong Trent Dobbins. We've now been in touch with the Mr. Dobbins who is running for the office of Mayor of Bluegrass and he tells us he is

Yesterday there seemed to be some confusion over the choice of a name for the new band consisting of Alan Bibey, Steve Gulley and Phil Leadbetter. We originally reported the band name as being Grasstowne and then later corrected that to

UPDATE 12/2/2006: It seems the original reporting on this was correct and Grasstowne is the name the new band will be using. Dobro master Phil Leadbetter announced earlier this week that he would be leaving Wildfire to pursue other ventures. At

The Colorado Playboys are planning a December tour in, of all places, Colorado! And just who are the Colorado Playboys? The band is comprised of pickers who have or do play in other bands, and have gotten together just for this