Author: Brance

Rhonda Vincent has embarked on the journey of creating a new CD, and she invites you to join her. Here's how it will work. As Rhonda goes through each phase of recording the CD, from listening to and writing songs, to

With Alan Munde's recent retirement from his teaching position at South Plains College, one might expect him to slow down and relax. It seems slowing down is not in Alan's plan. I'm told Alan is interested in playing more dates, and

With the July 15th deadline for the new internet radio royalty rates come and gone, SoundExchange and the webcasters are still trying to reach some kind of settlement. At least the webcasters are trying. Broadcasters report that their June 6 offer

John recently posted about this CD by the Steep Canyon Rangers. The street date for Lovin' Pretty Women is set for August 14, 2007. The CD is being premiered for the next couple weeks on XM Radio (for details see John's

Pinecastle Records has just announced the re-release of both of Terry Eldredge's solo projects. Terry currently tours with The Grascals, but back in the early '90s he was a member of The Osborne Brothers and released two solo projects featuring members

Rhonda Vincent is the All American Bluegrass Girl and this last weekend she helped bring bluegrass music to the all American sport, NASCAR racing. Saturday, July 28, 2007, at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis, IN, Rhonda treated the NASCAR fans

Some of you may have caught Don Rigsby's appearance last night on the ABC-TV reality series Six Degrees of Separation. The concept behind the series is that anyone is only six steps away from contacting anyone else on the planet.

After 7 years of offering 3 day multi-instrument bluegrass seminars, Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend is calling it quits. Jointly hosted since November of 2002 by mandolin legend Herschel Sizemore and our own John Lawless, RBW has fallen prey to the many

Joe Booher is the newest member of Ohio based NewFound Road. Joe, who plays mandolin, will be filling the vacancy left by the departure of founding member Rob Baker. Baker made the decision to leave the band, after nearly six

Now in it's 11th year, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine has just released a series of CD-ROM compilations containing articles and tablatures from the Best of the First Ten Years of the magazine. The series consists of 4 discs, each pulling articles on