Author: Brance

There have been a couple new additions to The Kati Penn Band over the last couple of months. We missed them, but Kati wrote in to let us know about them. Back in December, James Kee joined the band on mandolin.

The GrooveGrass Boyz have tapped media marketing wizard, Wichita Rutherford, to direct the video for their new single "Crank That (Farmer Boy)". When I asked Wichita about it here's what he had to say: The folks at GrooveGrass

Blue Highway is soon (Feb 12, 2008) to release their new CD, Through The Window Of A Train. We posted a link to the audio samples from the CD when they became available, but now we've got one better than

How many steel string acoustic guitars do you think are sold each year? I don't know either, but it must surely be in the millions. With a large bulk of them being sold - or given - to folks without much

Most of us can remember, and will tell the story with enthusiasm, how we became interested in bluegrass music. Many of those stories would be similar, "I heard it on the radio and had to pull my car over" or

Last year a raging battle ensued over the performance royalty rates for internet radio. That battle continues even now. The entity that established those rates is the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB). The CRB is now preparing to adjust and establish mechanical

We've posted several times previously about the release of the music video Born Lonesome by Skaggs Family Records artist Cadillac Sky. The video aired on both CMT and GAC. The good folks at Skaggs Family were kind enough to send us

On Saturday, February 16, 2008, Girl Scouts will have the opportunity to earn a unique patch. The History of Bluegrass patch is only available by attending one of the two group tours being offered that Saturday at the International Bluegrass

Our friend Craig Havighurst from String Theory Media just wrote to let us know that he has uploaded a new video to his YouTube page. The video is a five minute walk along with Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent as

Yesterday morning a new peer-to-peer music downloading application was launched called Qtrax. The service was launched with the announcement that the company had negotiated licenses with all the major labels and would have over 25 million songs available for download,