10 years

Here's another performance music video from Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road. This one's for Living With The Shades Pulled Down, which Merle Haggard included on his It's All In The Movies album in 1976. The original was cut during Hag's modified

On This Day …. On 16 April, circa 1938, Delia Bell (nee Delia Nowell) was born in Bonham, Texas. As a child Bell relocated to Hugo, Oklahoma, and, inspired by the bluegrass music of the Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe, she began

Fans of Sierra Hull and Alison Krauss who have been waiting impatiently for new albums from their favorite ethereal-voiced songstresses may be able to find a fix in the new album from Ashley Lewis. Lewis, a mandolin player and singer

I mentioned over the weekend in the just how much I was enjoying Detour's latest album, Going Nowhere Fast. We'll have a review of the record soon, but in the meantime, here are a couple of videos shot earlier this month when

If there was ever a match made in heaven, this is it. Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show have signed an endorsement deal with Pointer Brand clothing of Bristol, TN, makers of denim outerwear of every kind. This is a bunch

Born in Valdese, North Carolina, on April 11, 1925, George Saunders Shuffler was a very significant creative force in the bluegrass music world. Shuffler is best known for his association with the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys, and later

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." That's the type of approach Tom Feller and Chris Hill took on their sophomore album, Here Comes Feller & Hill... Again! Following the success of their self-titled debut, Feller & Hill are back, with more

George Shuffler, Tom Gray, and James Alan Shelton perform during Shuffler's induction to the IBMA Bluegrass Hall of Fame - photo by Roy Swan This reminiscence comes courtesy of Tom Gray, among the most prominent bass players in the history of

Another leading light of the first generation of bluegrass artists has passed. George Shuffler, long time member of both The Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, passed away earlier today (4/7/14), just short of his 89th

Over the years it's been known as Fueding Banjos or Fussing Banjos, but more commonly Dueling Banjos, especially since the release of the film, Deliverance, in 1972 in which it was featured under that name. Arthur Smith, who wrote the tune