• What I’m For from Dave Adkins

    Billy Blue Records is starting out the new year with a powerful single from Dave Adkins, an anthemic statement song called What I'm For. Coming from songwriting veterans Marc Beeson and Allen Shamblin, it shares a series of things and people

  • New faces with Route 3

    The next time you catch Missouri grassers Route 3, you'll see a different look. Bass man Doug Clifton tells us that he and guitarist Jason Jordan have brought two new members into the group. Janice Martin Houk has joined the band

  • Gibson All American 5 string for sale

    Here it is... A one of a kind, unique and rare instrument; a banjo unicorn. Bernunzio Uptown Music in Rochester, NY has listed for sale the only prewar five string All American banjo Gibson ever made, with a flathead tone ring

  • Todd Taylor Old Rugged Cross video

    South Carolina banjo picker Todd Taylor is having a very busy and productive winter. Last month he released a new single and video for his song, Taylor's Ride, and already in the new year he has an instrumental take on

  • Rylan Rissler to Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band

    West Virginia's Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band has decided to go five piece, moving long time banjo picker Troy Stangle to reso-guitar, and bringing 17 year old Rylan Rissler aboard on the five string. Rylan lives in south central Pennsylvania, and has

  • Ghost of a Love from Missy Raines

    Compass Records has a new single for Missy Raines, the third from her upcoming full length project, Highlander. In something of a "Back To The Future" move, the record finds Missy returning to her earliest days in the music business,

  • The Top Bluegrass Tracks of 2023

    Once again, we have a list off the most played bluegrass songs of the previous year, based on reporting to our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart during the 52 weeks of 2023. Congratulations to everyone who made the cut!   ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Blue Highway Lonesome State

  • Happy Birthday Earl Scruggs!

    As most serious banjo fans, tomorrow, January 6, is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Earl Scruggs, born in 1924 in Cleveland County, NC. He lived another 88 years, along the way turning the five string banjo into a