• Bill Monroe and Ibanez mandolins

    We've been in contact this past weekend with the administrators of a new web site devoted to the Ibanez mandolins made in Japan during the 1970s. IbanezMandolin.com publishes exclusive editorial content that explores the history of the mandolins and is compiling

  • Jerry Douglas – Glide

    Jerry Douglas, certified master of the resonator guitar, has a new CD due out August 19 on Koch Records. This will be his 12th solo project in a career that spans more than 30 years, and stints with a who's

  • Punch Brothers strike out

    Well... the vote is in and Punch Brothers were defeated in the ESPN Baseball Tonight band competition by country singer Gretchen Wilson. The contest was in honor of the 100th anniversary of the venerable Take Me Out To The Ballgame,

  • Yates Banjo shop video

    Banjo builder Warren Yates has created a video that takes you into his shop for a bird's eye view of the skills and techniques he employs in creating a Yates Banjo - with a tantalizing peek at the much-heralded secret

  • Drew Emmitt – Long Road

    Long Road, the new CD from former Leftover Salmonite Drew Emmitt, is due out next Tuesday (7/15) on Compass Records. The bulk of the songs are Emmitt originals and the core group of musicians include Chris Pandolfi on banjo, Tyler Grant

  • Two new mandolin books from Homespun

    Homespun has released mandolin transcription books to match two recent CDs from Butch Baldassari, Mandolin Hyms and Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer. Each book contains complete mandolin transcriptions in both tablature and standard notation, plus a copy of the original CD. Mandolin

  • Dan Tyminski music video on CMT

    The first music video from Dan Tyminski's Wheels CD has been released. It's for the title track, and can be viewed now at CMT.com. The video shows Dan and his band traveling the country by train, and rather than telling the

  • The banjo’s African roots

    This afternoon's (7/10) Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU will include a segment at 1:30 p.m. (EDT) on the African roots of our beloved banjo. Kojo will welcome Malian musician Cheick Hamala Diabate and American banjoist Bob Carlin for a discussion, and

  • Dixie Bee-Liners on XM

    The Dixie Bee-Liners will be the guest on this next coming week's edition of Studio Special on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. They'll perform songs from their latest Pinecastle CD, RIPE, featuring their currently popular single, Down On The Crooked

  • New C-Sky track online

    Bryan Simpson of Cadillac Sky just shot us a note with news about one of the songs on their upcoming CD, Gravity's Our Enemy, set for an August 19 Skaggs Family release. It's not really a single release, but one of