• Chad Darou to Mountain Fever

    Mountain Fever Records has announced the signing of multi-instrumentalist Chad Darou to the label. A new album is expected in 2019. Darou has worked in bluegrass for many years as a sideman, starting out as a youngster. Playing bass, banjo, guitar,

  • Greg Allen Signature fingerpicks

    Greg Allen has bluegrass music in his veins. As a young man he played banjo behind his famous father, Red Allen, and later with his brothers, Ronnie, Neal, and Harley, as The Allen Brothers. The boys were at the forefront of

  • What will they write on your headstone?

    Perhaps it was the recent passing of Halloween, or perhaps the post-music-camp mental fatigue (I just returned from the wonderful Walker Creek Music Camp in California), but my mind has suddenly turned to the macabre.  More specifically I’ve begun thinking about

  • Rocket Man goes bluegrass, x 2

    Bluegrass covers of pop, rock, and country songs have long been a part of our music. Flatt & Scruggs were doing them in the 1960s near the end of their tenure, just as The Country Gentlemen were starting to do