• Bryan Sutton Almost Live out today

    Almost Live, the latest CD from flatpicker supreme Bryan Sutton, is out today (7/14) on Sugar Hill Records. It is a set of ten songs and tunes featuring Bryan in the studio with many of the artists with whom he has

  • Childsplay – Waiting For The Dawn

    Bob Childs is a noted violin maker based in Cambridge, MA. His instruments are played by members of Boston's acclaimed symphony orchestra as well as folk, old time and Irish musicians worldwide. Childs is a fiddler himself, having imbibed the fiddle

  • Roland White on WAMU

    Roland White will join Katy Daley this morning (7/14) on WAMU's Bluegrass Country to celebrate the music of his late brother, Clarence White. Tomorrow (July 15) will mark the 36th anniversary of the day when Clarence was killed by a drunk

  • New reso book from Mike Witcher

    Mike Witcher, current reso man with Missy Raines & The New Hip, has published a second instructional book for resonator guitar. Resonator Guitar: 20 Bluegrass Jam Favorites contains precisely what the title suggests. Mike has created intermediate level arrangements for 20

  • Ask Sam Bush Anything…

    What is it with bluegrass mandolin legends taking fan questions and answering them online? Doyle Lawson and Sam Bush are both posting YouTube videos with answers to submitted questions. Here's Sam's latest, where he answers a query about how he approaches

  • Summer BBN on the way

    We hear from editor Richard F. Thompson that the Summer 2009 edition of British Bluegrass News is in the mail. The magazine is published quarterly by the British Bluegrass Music Association, and this issue is the first under the guidance of

  • Road stories

    The conclusion to Ashby Frank's tale of road woe is told on his web site. When we left off, Special C was broken down on the side of the road in Kansas, with barely enough time to make it to their

  • Ask Doyle, part 7

    Here is the latest episode of Ask Doyle, where Doyle Lawson answers questions from fans about his long career in bluegrass music. This week he talks about The Bluegrass Album Band - how this star-studded group came to be and how

  • The Bankester Family – Carolina Rain video

    The Bankester Family has been performing as a bluegrass band since 2004, operating from their home in Carbondale, IL. The show consists of Phil and Dorene Bankester and their four daughters, plus a son-in-law. Melissa (21) plays bass, her husband Kyle

  • Rough start for Special C

    Ashby Frank has a sad story on his blog at ashbyfrank.com... It tells of how the first leg of a midwestern tour with Special Consensus turned into a roadside disaster yesterday (7/9). Their trusty vehicle let them down, and left them