• Last chance for Song Of The Mountains?

    We have written in the past about the fundraising difficulties experienced by Song Of The Mountains, the popular live performance bluegrass show broadcast on dozens of PBS television affiliates across the US. The show is a hit with fans of

  • Dewel Bullington passes

    Longtime McCormick Brothers fiddler Dewel Bullington passed away on January 9 at the age of 78. He had spent 55 years working with the McCormicks, with whom he had become a dear and cherished friend. This brief tribute was published on the McCormick

  • Bluegrass Sales Up?

    Good news has been in short supply for the recorded music industry since the turn of the century. With retailers closing up shop and digital distribution (legal and illegal) eating into label revenues for more than a decade, crying the

  • Lloyd Loar on Antiques Roadshow

    The Holy Grail of the acoustic stringed instrument world, a 1924 Gibson Lloyd Loar F-5 mandolin, made an appearance on the popular PBS television program, Antiques Road Show this week. Frederick Oster with Vintage Instruments in Philadelphia is right on target

  • Enter Freeman & Williams

    Freeman & Williams... that sounds like a new duet act, or maybe an ad agency, or legal firm. But it's actually a bluegrass/Americana trio with a new CD set to hit February 7 on Mountain Roads Recordings. The group consists of

  • Grascals to Mountain Home

    Mountain Home Music has announced that The Grascals have signed with the label, with a new CD due this Spring. They have released this brief video to commemorate the announcement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K-xEzuiJSI Look for more details shortly.

  • New look for Mountain Heart

    Mountain Heart has released video of newest member Seth Taylor's first shows with the band. The barely-legal guitarist has just joined up after a stint with Monroeville while still in school. The guys captured footage on stage and behind the scenes as

  • First LRB single from Chronology hits

    Lonesome River Band has dropped a debut single from the first volume of their 30th anniversary project, Chronology. The album will be released in three volumes by Rural Rhythm, each in an 8-song EP format covering one decade of the band's

  • New season – and new video – for Justified

    Kentucky's Cumberland River has profited handsomely from their close association with Justified, the FX network's popular television crime drama. The show is a modern-day western, set in notorious Harlan County, the band's hometown, and they had the opportunity to perform

  • BP spills bluegrass along the Gulf Coast

    We all recall the localized devastation of communities along the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig in April 2010, and the resulting discharge of nearly 5 million barrels of