• Songwriter Profile – Louisa Branscomb

    This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. Louisa Branscomb is an acclaimed songwriter and pioneer in bluegrass music, having been referred

  • Working Girl Blues: It’s a winner

    Working Girl Blues: The Life And Music Of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named the winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded

  • Songwriter Profile – Chris Stuart

    This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Chris Stuart plays guitar and leads his own band, Backcountry,

  • Live EP from Toy Hearts

    Toy Hearts, surely one of Britain's most aggressive young bluegrass bands, leaves today for a month in the US. The group is based on a family trio, Stewart Johnson and his two daughters, Hannah and Sophia. They will be playing at

  • Light In The Window IV

    Here is another Light In The Window post from Richard F. Thompson. A variation of this piece has been published in British Bluegrass News. Light In The Window - A series of rambles about CDs by bluegrassmercury It has been a long

  • Mike Seeger remembered

    Mike Seeger: August 15, 1933  - August 7, 2009 Musician, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, collector, teacher, advocate, record engineer and producer, field-recordist, archivist, folklorist, historian and cultural scholar. Adjectives abound; individually or collectively they cannot begin to describe the influence Mike Seeger

  • Yet another forthcoming book

    A bit of research has revealed a book about bluegrass music that we missed from our recent bulletin. I Hear a Voice Calling - A Bluegrass Memoir is Gene Lowinger's photo journal that captures Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys

  • Light In The Window III

    Here is another Light In The Window post from Richard F. Thompson. A variation of this piece has been published in British Bluegrass News. A fourth installment will be along in a week or so. Light In The Window - A series

  • Forthcoming books…

    Recently we have commented at length about the forthcoming Ralph Stanley autobiography. We though that you might be interested in some other bluegrass-related reading matter due for publication in the near future. A book about Tony Rice is scheduled to be released