• Black Sunday Blues from Three Tall Pines

    New England alt-grassers Three Tall Pines have released a video for Black Sunday Blues, a band original from their current All That's Left album. The guys describe this as a classic dustbowl song, and the video captures them performing it live

  • Farm Hand Quartet hunting a banjo player

    The Farm Hand Quartet, a bluegrass Gospel group featuring veteran grassers Tim Graves, Daryl Mosley and Kevin Williamson, are on the hunt for a new banjo player. The band is based in Nashville, and tours extensively throughout the central US. According to

  • How To Grow A Band to debut in April

    After a handful of delays lasting several years, Mark Meatto's film, How To Grow A Band, is finally scheduled to open in April. The project is an in-depth look at Chris Thile's ambitious composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind, which he wrote

  • Great news: stolen banjo recovered

    Here's a heartwarming story for a lovely Spring day, sent by our friends at Nechville Musical Products. Trout Fishing In America is the name used by children's entertainers Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood for their duo show, an odd choice for

  • Concert Window shows this weekend

    We've posted previously about Concert Window, the Boston-based live concert streaming service that makes club and theater performances available worldwide via online video. The company was founded by a pair of Beantown musical entrepreneurs, with a passion for alternative entertainment and

  • Ralph Stanley in American Profile

    A nice article on Ralph Stanley serves as the cover feature on this week's edition of American Profile, a print publication distributed in many US markets via newspaper insert. Writer Richard McVey visited with Dr. Ralph at last year's Jerusalem Ridge

  • Loafer’s Glory album on Arhoolie

    We heard the other day from Arhoolie Records, with word of a new band in California. Loafer's Glory features noted west coast pickers Herb Pedersen on guitar, Bill Bryson on bass, Tom Sauber on fiddle, and Patrick Sauber on banjo. A self-titled album

  • Classic from Larry Keel

    Jamgrass guitar hero Larry Keel has released a new CD, Classic, with his touring band, Natural Bridge. Joining Larry is wife Jenny Keel on bass, Mark Schimick on mandolin and Will Lee on banjo. Of the 12 tracks, 9 come from

  • Photos of Pendleton Vandiver surface

    The International Bluegrass Music Museum has acquired a pair of rare photos of Pendleton Vandiver, Bill Monroe's legendary Uncle Pen, whose fiddle playing was famously remembered in the Monroe song by that name. Big Mon was quoted frequently as saying that

  • Pretty Little Girl from Galax video

    IIIrd Tyme Out rolled their big red bus into Galax, VA last week to shoot a music video for Pretty Little Girl From Galax, a song from, Prime Tyme, their current Rural Rhythm release that spent many weeks on our