• Flatt Lonesome settles down in Asheville

    Don't get excited... nobody's moving anywhere. It's just the latest live video from Flatt Lonesome, doing their modernized version of the Flatt & Scruggs jewel, I'm Gonna Settle Down, at the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. This marks the third

  • Claire Lynch Band at Herald Tribune

    When The Claire Lynch Band was in Sarasota, Florida on Sunday they made a side trip to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune where they filmed this video performance for the paper's web site. Claire and the boys highlighted a number of songs

  • John Bullard video from Bud Bennett

    As promised, classical banjoist John Bullard is featured in the latest installment of Bud Bennett's Appalachian Music and Culture blog. Bud works in the McConnell Library’s Archives and Special Collections Department at Radford University in Virginia. He is also a banjo player who has blended

  • Confederate Railroad goes bluegrass

    Southern rockers Confederate Railroad have a new album out today, and it retains their well-established image as gruff and gritty bad boys. There's plenty of Waylon and Willie to be found - quite literally, as guests Willie Nelson, John Anderson, and

  • Mary Ann video from Abby Hollander

    New York bluegrass singer/songwriter Abby Hollander has released a live video of she and her band performing at the Rockwood Music Hall in lower Manhattan earlier this week. It's their arrangement of Mary Ann - not the classic Jimmy Martin song, but one

  • Never Let Me Go video from Flatt Lonesome

    Mountain Home Music has released a second live video of Flatt Lonesome from their April 28 performance at the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. The entire show was recorded, both for audio and video, capturing this exciting young group before an

  • Rattle & Roar preview from The Earls

    This Friday's release of Rattle & Roar from The Earls of Leicester is among the most eagerly anticipated albums of 2016 to date in the bluegrass and acoustic music world. Their success since first appearing in 2013 has surprised a

  • Tom Nechville sits for Bud Bennett

    Tom Nechville, banjo builder and the man behind the innovative Nechville Musical Products company, is the latest subject to sit for banjo archivist Bud Bennett and his Appalachian Music and Culture blog. Bud has to date posted lengthy, in-depth interviews with several notable banjo