Adkins & Loudermilk hit with a bang when they announced their partnership back in November of 2013, with reverberations sounding across bluegrass music. Edgar Loudermilk left his position on bass and harmony vocals with IIIrd Tyme Out, and Dave Adkins
Rebel Records has released a second single from Another Day From Life, their current project for Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers. One might say it's actually the third single, since The Last Parade came out as a single even
Thanks to Stu Vincent, a newly-assigned member of the Board of Directors for the European Bluegrass Music Association, for sending along these photos from the presentation of awards at last weekend's European Bluegrass Gathering during the Munich Bluegrass Festival in
We had posted back in January about Bud Bennett, the Appalachian Music Specialist at Radford University's McConnell Library, and his series of videos with banjo legend Butch Robins, who lives near Radford. Butch spoke at length about his life and music, and his
Congratulations to Rachel and Brian Burge who welcomed their first child earlier this afternoon. Rachel is a bluegrass singer, songwriter, mandolinist and bandleader in West Virginia. Brooks Lee Burge was born at 3:35 p.m. (EDT). He came in at 9 lbs,
Frank Solivan's good year continued on Sunday when he took home 8 trophies at the Washington Area Music Association Awards ceremony at the State Theater in Falls Church, VA. Not only did Frank, and his trusty touring band, Dirty Kitchen,
Those of us who live in the bluegrass-rich areas of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky can easily lose track of the fact that a great many fans - and pickers - aren't always so lucky. In today's world, fans can
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced that event and hotel registration for the 2015 World of Bluegrass and Wide Open Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC will begin at the end of this month. Members of the IBMA can register for the
Twice before we have raved about recordings from Shannon and Heather Slaughter. The first was actually for Shannon's solo album, The Sideman Steps Out, on which she was prominently featured, and the second, One More Road, their first duet album
WAMU's Bluegrass Country has been in the news quite a bit of late, with programming and personnel changes taking effect in recent weeks. Here's one more change, unrelated to the large-scale ones announced in February. Jessica Stiles, whose Stiles of Bluegrass aired
