Jerry Salley, Dave Adkins, and Ed Leonard at Billy Blue Records Billy Blue Records has announced the signing of powerhouse Kentucky singer and songwriter Dave Adkins to the label. Adkins has also signed on with Billy Blue Publishing as a songwriter. Dave
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IBMA Foundation announces 2023 scholarship/award winners
Lucy Howe Becker and Cade Botts, recipients of IBMA Foundation awards The IBMA Foundation, engaged in philanthropic and educational wok within the bluegrass world, has announced the 2023 winners of their five college scholarships for the academic year beginning this fall,
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Fall In Tennessee video from Authentic Unlimited
Billy Blue Records has produced a music video for Fall In Tennessee, their current single for Authentic Unlimited. The song is a showcase for guitarist John Meador, who composed it with Bob Minner, sings it in his pointedly clear tenor voice,
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Daniel Martin to Big Country Bluegrass
Virginia traditional bluegrass perennials Big Country Bluegrass have announced the addition of Daniel Martin to the band on banjo. Daniel has been picking the banjo since he was a young teen, sitting with his Earl Scruggs and Don Reno records, figuring
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I Go – new single from The Grascals
Mountain Home Music has a new single for The Grascals, in which we get our first recorded taste of the recently revitalized group. The band has welcomed founding member Jamie Johnson back following a period of several years while Johnson
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Colby Laney signs with Sound Biscuit Records
Sound Biscuit Records has announced the signing of veteran bluegrass performer Colby Laney to the label. Involved in bluegrass performance since his teens, most folks know him best for his time on guitar and vocals for the Larry Stephenson Band
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White Freightliner Blues drops for Boyd Hulin & Southern Revival
Boyd Hulin & Southern Revue has just released a new single, White Freightliner Blues. Mandolinist Hulin is no stranger to the North Carolina bluegrass community. The singer, songwriter, musician, and instrument instructor has performed with a number of Tar Heel
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Oban Bay from Scots mandolinist Callum Morton
Scottish mandolinist Callum Morton, known throughout the UK for his work with Glasgow's The Fountaineers, has embarked on a solo project of his own music. Its first single drops today, Oban Bay, where the Scots make some of the finest
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Long Hard Road from Junior Sisk
Mountain Fever Records has a new single for lonesome mountain bluegrass specialist Junior Sisk, a Rodney Crowell song called Long Hard Road (The Share Cropper's Dream). Fans of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band may recall their 1984 recording of this song,
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Nick Chandler & Delivered in Norway
Earlier this month, Nick Chandler & Delivered were the American bluegrass artist at this year's Norsk Countrytreff Music Festival in Breim, Norway. Trudy Chandler, Nick's wife and the band's tour manager, shared this brief report, along with photos from their