Mountain Home Music has a new single this week from Benson, the husband-and-wife duo of Wayne and Kristin Scott Benson. She is the five-time IBMA Banjo Player of the Year who picks with The Grascals, and he is the award-winning
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Naperville Bluegrass festival returns to Chicagoland
We wrote last month about Kim and Joyce Kraemer and their plan to restart the Naperville Bluegrass Festival, after it having been run successfully by Terry and Jan Lease from 1986 to 2014. Kim has shared a few words about
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New Josh Graves dobro course from Rob Ickes
Reso guitar master Rob Ickes has announced a second video course where he teaches classic Josh Graves solos from the days of Flatt & Scruggs at the Big Music Tent site. Unlike sites where you pay subscriptions to obtain their instructional
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Track Premiere: Smokestack from Kitchen Dwellers
Kitchen Dwellers, the popular jamgrass outfit from Bozeman, MT has a new single today taken from their upcoming Wise River project, which hits on April 29. This young band of neo-grassers tick most of the boxes that matter most for the urban-oriented fans
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Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus from Jacob Underwood
Plum River Records has a new single for Jacob Underwood from his upcoming all Gospel project, My Hope is in the Lord. It's a timeless hymn, Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, dating back to 1882. Multi-instrumentalist Underwood plays as a
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Peter Rowan talks Calling You From My Mountain, his new bluegrass record
Photo of Peter Rowan by Amanda Rowan This article/interview is a contribution from Mike Fiorito, a free lance music writer, Associate Editor for Mad Swirl Magazine, and a regular contributor to the Red Hook Star Revue. Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Peter Rowan has
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Americana Wandering – Frank Ruck
Frank Ruck of the New Jersey-based Blue Jersey Band has released an album that is solo in every sense of the word. The bulk of the material contained within Americana Wandering was written by Ruck, and all of the vocals and
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Track premiere: Breaker’s Bakedown – debut single from Darol Anger and Mr. Sun
Compass Records has a new single this week for Mr. Sun, featuring award-winning fiddler Darol Anger, his first recording since being awarded an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2020. Darol has been familiar to bluegrass audiences since he emerged on the scene
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From The Side of the Road… perils of the gig economy
If you've ridden an Uber or Lyft lately, or stayed in an AirBnB, you know that the "gig economy" is the big trend in employment, especially in the service industry, and it's likely here to stay. People everywhere are becoming
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Weary Old Highway from Jim Hurst with Darin & Brooke Aldridge
Pinecastle Records has released a second single for their upcoming solo project for Jim Hurst, From The Ground Up. With Jim's well deserved reputation as a skilled guitar man, it is easy to forget what a profoundly talented vocalist he is