Last week, on either October 9 or 10, two instruments were stolen from the home of Luke Monday in Goodlettsville, TN (near Nashville). Taken were: Huber VRB-3 - flying eagle inlay, antiqued binding, aged metal parts. Banjo has several deep scratches on
Lonesome Day Records has announced that a new recording from guitarist/vocalist Richard Bennett will be forthcoming in 2014. The label had released his Last Train From Poor Valley album during the summer of 2012, a project that had been cut
Rural Rhythm Records has released a music video for the title track of their epic Civil War collection, God Didn't Choose Sides. The song was written by Mark Brinkman and Paula Breedlove, and performed by Marty Raybon. It tells of a
We caught up with Joe Mullins and Junior Sisk in Raleigh last month, where they talked about their new Hall 0f Fame duets project on Rebel Records.
Fretboard Journal has posted this live video of Kenny & Amanda Smith performing a duet version of Catch Me If I Try, the title track from their most recent CD. http://vimeo.com/76357342 Though they do manage a web site, Fretboard Journal's primary publication
The limits of good taste, that is. We've managed to survive the contentious weeks of bicycle chain hysteria, and kept bluegrass largely free of the twerking phenomenon re-ignited by a racy Miley Cyrus. * But no... we can't have nothin' nice. The
Avant-garde mandolinist Andy Statman has announced a new CD, Superstring Theory, set for an October 22 release on Shefa Records. It was recorded with Staman's Trio (Jim Whitney on bass and Larry Eagle on drums), along with fiddler Michael Cleveland and guitarist/vocalist
Towards the end of IBMA week in Raleigh last month, a pair of the lovely Bankester girls stopped by for a chat about their new album, Love Has Wheels, and the first music video from the record for When I'm
It seems that the annual IBMA convention and awards always stir up the familiar argument about whether traditional bluegrass gets its due, or is getting squeezed out by newer, bluegrass-derived music. This has always struck me as a needless and
Legendary bluegrass fiddler Jim Shumate has died at 91 years of age. As a young man, he served as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the early 1940s, just prior to the addition of Flatt & Scruggs to
