Author: Brance

Here's a great photo that was sent to us via email. Though details are sketchy, it has long been rumored that the Beatles had initially wavered between bluegrass and rhythm and blues as the vehicle for their musical energies.

Mandolin Master Chris Thile has been a Star Wars fan as long as I've known him. In fact the first time I met Chris was in line to buy tickets for Episode I. I was living in Nashville at the

Collings Mandolins and Guitars of Austin, Texas, and the Mandolin Cafe will be giving away a Collings MT2 to some lucky individual in the near future. Starting October 1, 2005, visitors to the Mandolin Cafe web site will have an opportunity

We just received word that David Lee Roth (the original frontman for the legendary rock band Van Halen and multi-million selling solo artist) will be in the studio this week recording a bluegrass album! Who knew? Musical master John Jorgenson

Only 17 days left to vote! The poll will remain open until Thursday Oct. 27 at noon. Please be sure to vote before then. Our weekly poll updates have been moved to Monday mornings now. In this week's poll update we

Matt Glaser, Chair of Beklee College of Music's String Department, has written a very nice article for Strings Magazine that remembers fiddle legend Vassar Clements. Read it here.

Bluegrass Today Awards Poll 2005 remains open to registered users until Thursday Oct. 27 at noon. Please be sure to vote before then. We have been publishing updated analysis of the poll each week on Friday or Saturday but have now

I just heard from Chris Burton, who we wrote about here. He gave me an update on his CD that also relates to the viewpoint piece I did early this week. In that post I mentioned that Chris had alerted

The New Jersey based group Straight Drive has released its first band CD on Cabinwood Music. The CD has been receiving airplay throughout the US and abroad. Straight Drive has been performing for four years and has played many Bluegrass festivals,

The Ryman Auditorium has announced a Christmas show featuring Ricky Skaggs. The show is called Skaggs Family Christmas and features Ricky along with his family and The Whites. Skaggs Family Christmas featuring Ricky Skaggs, The Whites, Molly & Luke Skaggs, and Rachel White Wednesday,