Sugar Hill Records has launched the latest video from Kathy Mattea’s current album Calling Me Home (Sugar Hill SUG-CD-4085). Songwriters Larry Cordle and Jenee Fleenor composed the song, Builder Levy, James Minchin and David McClister provided the iconic photographs, and filmmaker
Rounder has released a debut music video from this week's new album from The Steeldrivers, Hammer Down. The song is I'll Be There, written by featured vocalist Gary Nichols, along with John Paul White. Befitting the tone and lyrics of the
Last week we ran across a fascinating video online, from a musician who assumes the nom de web of Stoney Lonesome. In real life, he is Andy Cartoun, a bluegrass banjo player and accidental filmmaker from the Northeast, who has
We found a video of 2013 SPBGMA International Bluegrass Band Championship, The Meyer Bluegrass Band, performing one of the songs that led to them taking the trophy on Sunday afternoon. The Missouri band consists of siblings John Meyer on banjo, David
Over the weekend at SPBGMA, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage hosted an open jam in the lobby of the Sheraton Music City Hotel, where the convention was held. All were invited to pick with Rhonda and the boys, and quite
Things were hopping in the lobby of the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville last night here at SPBGMA. We caught Dave Adkins & Republik Steele in a lobby alcove performing their current single, The Way I Roll.
Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line have released a live video, shot last week in Nashville. It was actually their first live show as a band, after spending time in the studio last year recording their first album together,
The Boston area’s prime bluegrass event, The Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, is coming up in a few weeks and a lot of folks in the northeast are making preparations to attend. We'll have a correspondent/photographer there for the first time
When we posted last Monday about Monroeville's alter ego, the cleverly-named Tex-Mex, Platorapido, we mentioned that they were scheduled to sing the National Anthem this weekend at an SEC basketball game in Knoxville. Unfortunately, network coverage rarely includes the singing of
A few years ago we reported regularly on a young sibling trio from Georgia, who performed as The Lovell Sisters. Jessica, Rebecca and Megan Lovell were teen pickers and singers who turned quite a few heads with their lovely voices
