• Get yer Goon Grease, with BrewGrass scent!

    What do you get for the bluegrass man who has everything? Well, if he's still sporting a full crop of hair on his head, how about a new pomade, specially made for bluegrass lovers? Lockhart's Authentic Grooming Company in Durand, Michigan, has

  • Two new bluegrass Walker babies!

    The bluegrass pickin' Walker girls of Redhead Express have welcomed two new members of their family in the past six weeks. The clan of redheads from Nashville - by way of Alaska - had been carrying two pregnant sisters out

  • Welcome Christ The Lord from Professor Dan

    Dan Boner, Director of the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University, has released a Christmas single of his own, with a different sort of take on holiday bluegrass. Most of the Yuletide grass falls

  • The Vintage Martins to Eastwood Records

    The Vintage Martins, an acoustic/bluegrass duo consisting of Bud Bierhaus and Eric Uglum, have signed with Eastwood Records for a new album, Traveled, due in April of 2018. It's an interesting pairing for both label and artists. Eastwood is a Louisville,

  • Nirvana-grass video from The Grasslers

    The Grasslers - photo by Peggy Porquet We've covered The Grasslers once before, a French bluegrass band with a passion for steampunk imagery, 19th century Americana, and sweeping cinematic vision. Oh, and the music of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. When we last

  • Christmas music before Thanksgiving

    This being the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, you would naturally be expecting a Thanksgiving-y column, perhaps a list of bluegrass things to be thankful for, e.g. “I’m thankful for my Blue Chip TPR 45,” or “I’m thankful for Jimmy Martin’s lead

  • Merry Christmas from Flashback

    Flashback has joined the ranks of bluegrass artists releasing new Christmas music this year. While hard at work this month tracking for a new Pinecastle project in 2018, they cut two others with a Yuletide flavor. One is a stately, acoustic

  • Ramblin’ Man video from Mile Twelve

    Hot on the heels of their new album release, and a whirlwind tour of Australia and New Zealand, Mile Twelve has posted a video of them covering one of the biggest country rock songs of the 1970s. Ramblin' Man was released

  • 2017 Al Ras Bluegrass and Old Time Festival

    This report on the Al Ras festival in Barcelona comes courtesy of Lluis Gomez. The 16th annual Al Ras Bluegrass and Old Time Festival, Spain’s oldest bluegrass festival, occurred this past November 9-11th. This year the festival expanded activities over three