North Carolina's ClayBank celebrated the release of Playing Hard To Forget, their debut album on Rural Rhythm Records, with a concert at the Harvest House Performing Arts Center in Boone on Tuesday night. The house was packed for the show, and
Bluegrass Videos
ETSU Pride Band single release
The ETSU Pride Band, made up of select students in the school's Bluegrass, Country & Old Time Music program, have a new single set for a November 1 release. Written by one of the members, it was recorded and will
Mountain Faith drops new single
When Mountain Faith was named the IBMA's Emerging Artist of the Year for 2016 last Thursday night, we were among the many folks nodding and thinking, "it's about time the organization recognized these groundbreaking young artists." As is so often the case,
The latest thing: POV jam videos
The indubitable Russell Carson, crack banjoist with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and enterprising bluegrass photographer/videographer, has posted the latest thing in music archiving - the POV video! Many types of action photography, from the sublime to the discreditable, now utilize
Samson video from Cricket Tell The Weather
Brooklyn's Cricket Tell The Weather has a new album, Tell The Story Right, and a new performance music video for one of the tracks. It's for their recently grassified version of Sampson, Regina Spektor's piano/vocal telling of the story of Samson and
Johnny Walker video from Carolina Blue
Carolina Blue has released a music video for Johnny Walker, one of the tracks from their current album, Goin' Home Today. It was written by mandolinist Tim Jones, a founding member of the group. The video was shot and edited by Corey
When She Was Mine video from Fireball Mail
Fireball Mail, winners of the Band Contest at the 2016 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, have released a music video for one of the tracks on their debut album, Bending The Rails. Based in Nashville, this bunch has come a great distance
40 Blues video from Rebecca Frazier
Rebecca Frazier has never been one to do as she's told, starting with "girls don't play Tony Rice-style lead guitar." This small but power-packed young woman has shown herself a force to be recognized in the flatpicking world, and her
Molly May video from Claire Lynch
Compass Records has released a music video for Molly May, the second track on their new album for Claire Lynch, North By South. The record has a Northern theme, featuring songs written by Canadian songwriters, this one by J.P. Cormier from
Coming Home video from O’Connor Band
The O'Connor Band has released a new music video for the song Coming Home, the title track from their new Rounder album. It's a fun, summery video featuring fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor with his family back on the streets of Seattle










