• Audie Blaylock and Backroad Gold

    Are you a fan of the Travel Channel... or the popular genre of antiquing and restoration on TV these days? If so you are liable to hear some fine bluegrass when you tune in to Travel's newest show, Backroad Gold with

  • No more Cumberland River

    Sad news for fans of the gritty, eastern Kentucky based outfit, Cumberland River, who have just announced the immediate dissolution of the group. They recorded a pair of albums for Rural Rhythm Records, and generated a good bit of buzz through

  • Welcome the Dukes of Drive

    Is there anyone more beloved inside bluegrass music than Terry Baucom? His banjo style is plainly definitive of the link between Earl Scruggs, through J.D. Crowe, and on to modern 1-4-5 drive. On top of that, he is among the kindest,

  • The High 48s ride the train

    The High 48s, a Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, band formed in 2006, is working on an album of train songs with funding for the project coming from a successful Kickstarter campaign. This will be their fifth album project. They are a five-piece

  • Earl Scruggs Center opens in a deluge

    Over one thousand fans of the five-string gathered in Shelby, North Carolina on Saturday, January 11, 2014 to experience the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center. Despite pouring rain that moved several events that had been scheduled to take

  • No more OATS

    The Out Among The Stars festival, more commonly known as OATS, has announced that the previously scheduled 2014 event has been cancelled, and that the festival will no longer be held. This would have been their 15th annual event, held over

  • Rocketman video from Iron Horse

    Starting in the early 1970s, American rock/jazz/pop band Steely Dan introduced a new model in the music business. Though they did tour extensively at the beginning, they soon became a studio band where their two creative founders (Donald Fagen and

  • Rhonda left out in the cold

    I'm sure most of us in the US have their own stories about dealing with the record cold temperatures we've been experiencing this week. For Rhonda Vincent, our reigning Bluegrass Queen, the travails of air travel and extreme cold paired

  • Michael Cleveland, Master Barber

    Back in March of 2013, Nathan Livers, mandolinist with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, made a pledge to get his long locks cut as soon as the band's Facebook page reached 5,000 likes. He further promised to donate his hair to