• Tire Chains video from Three Tall Pines

    From Boston's Three Tall Pines comes a new music video, shot live in the campground at this summer's Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in New York. Tire Chains is among the songs included on their most recent album, All That's Left, released in 2011,

  • Punch Brothers – your roots are showing

    Punch Brothers are one of those acts that help define the dividing line between what is and isn't bluegrass music. Folks who embrace the oft-denigrated "big tent" philosophy see them as a direct antecedent to what Bill Monroe started nearly

  • The Pistol And The Pen video from Darrell Webb

    Rural Rhythm has released a first video from Breaking Down The Barriers, their recent release from The Darrell Webb Band. It was produced and directed by Sammy Passamano, who also shot the footage with Jeff Tolbert. Written by Skip Ewing, The Pistol And The

  • Earl Scruggs tribute at IBMA

    Our friends at Music City Roots have posted a video from the first part of the Earl Scruggs tribute during last night's IBMA Awards show. Steve Martin introduced the segment, which served as the show's finale, complete with dozens of top

  • Mountain Home Music honors Doyle Lawson

    A few days ago John interviewed Doyle Lawson in connection with Lawson’s induction into the IBMA Hall of Fame. Now Mountain Home Music Co., Lawson’s record company, pays its own tribute to the legendary bluegrass music artist. Mountain Home heralds this

  • More Cumberland River coming on Justified?

    At this past weekend's Pickin' In The Panhandle festival in West Virginia, we had a chance to speak with James Dean, banjo picker and vocalist with Cumberland River. The band has received a major leg up in their burgeoning career from