• Mountain Home teases new LRB project

    Lonesome River Band is hard at work on their first album for Mountain Home at the Crossroads Studio in North Carolina. While they were there, Crossroads put a little teaser together to whet your appetite for some new LRB music.   Look for

  • Late night jam from DelFest 2014

    As they have for the past few years, DelFest has posted video from the last night/late night jam with the Travelin' McCourys at the 2014 iteration of DelFest. Each year the festival closes out with the McCourys jamming on stage with

  • Getting Lost video from East-West

    East-West is a young bluegrass band from Slovakia and Czech Republic, made up of prominent eastern European musicians. With several members performing with more than one band, East-West had been sort of a special project group since their founding in

  • Moon Over Memphis video from Balsam Range

    Balsam Range has offered this clever video to introduce the opening track of their upcoming album, Five. It shows the band's work on the song Moon Over Memphis, starting with them working up an arrangement in the studio, through to them tracking

  • Country Current salutes the troops

    Kudos to Ted Lehmann, bluegrass blogger extraordinaire, for shooting and posting this video from the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival a week ago. He captured US Navy Band Country Current performing their popular service anthems medley, which is a high point of all their

  • All For One video from Gangstagrass

    Gangstagrass, a hip-hop/bluegrass hybrid outfit from Brooklyn, has a new music video for their latest release, All For One. While not likely to please hard-core traditionalists (I'm talking to you, Dennis Jones), bluegrass lovers with an ear for different sounds

  • Never Does video from Head For The Hills

    Here's an interesting video from Head For The Hills, one of the several acoustic string bands using the ensemble format common to bluegrass or old time music to perform original material more inclined to pop or indie rock. The song is Never

  • Wanderlust in June from the Davidson Brothers

    Australia's Davidson Brothers, Hamish and Lachlan, have completed work on a new album, Wanderlust, which is due to hit on June 20. The brothers are the continent's most celebrated bluegrass act, and are also quite popular in the thriving Aussie country

  • Dolly Parton talks Blue Smoke

    Dolly Parton's new release, Blue Smoke, isn't really a bluegrass album, though she does include a number of songs with a grassy feel. Among them are the all-time favorite, Banks Of The Ohio, Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice, which has