Alecia Nugent's next CD, Hillbilly Goddess, isn't due for release until May 12, but it has already generated something of a buzz in the music world. Early reviews and response from radio have been solidly positive, and both Rounder Records
Author: John Lawless
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Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa debut hits
The debut, self-titled CD from Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa is now available. Taylor is familiar to bluegrass lovers from his 24 years with Country Current, the US Navy Bluegrass Band, headquartered in Washington, DC. Many of those years of service were
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Vintage LRB on YouTube
Lonesome River Band founder and former member Tim Austin has posted a number of video clips on YouTube from a 1993 concert in Ferrum, VA. This is shortly after the group starting making a big noise in bluegrass - just
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NewFound Road – Same Old Place
Same Old Place, the second Rounder release from NewFound Road, is due to hit a week from today, on April 28. We had commented a number of times about this album as it was progressing from concept to reality, and have
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Caroline video from OCMS
Old Crow Medicine Show has released a music video for the song Caroline, from their 2008 CD, Tennessee Pusher. Give it a look and a listen below, courtesy of CMT.com, where several other OCMS videos can be found.
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Lost & Found on Sirius-XM
Lost & Found will be this week's feature on Track-By-Track, the new music program that runs on Bluegrass Junction, Sirius-XM's all-bluegrass channel. Host Kyle Cantrell will interview the members of the group about their new CD, Love, Lost and Found, in
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Infamous Stringdusters on News8.net
The Infamous Stringdusters will be a guest on tomorrow's (4/21) edition of Let's Talk Live, broadcast in the Washington, DC metro television market on NewsChannel 8 at noon (EDT). They'll perform a couple of tunes and chat with show hosts Doug
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Jerry Springer – a man of his word
We devoted a lot of space here on Bluegrass Today last summer when The Wright Kids, a bluegrass trio of pre teen siblings from Rocky Mount, VA, made it to the televised finals of America's Got Talent. Though they were voted
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Banjo position open again at South Plains College
We received a note from Joe Carr, Associate Professor of Music at South Plains College in Levelland, TX, with notification that they are again looking for an instructor to serve as five string banjo instructor, the position held for many
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Dennis Jones at WNCW
Our friend Ted Lehmann has put together a terrific profile of our other friend Dennis Jones, and posted it on his blog, Ted Lehmann's Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms. Ted visited the WNCW radio studio in Spindale, NC where Dennis serves as