• Don’t sing it, Noam

    Noam Pikelny's new banjo album, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail, drops tomorrow (10/25), and we will run an interview with Noam at that time. But it turns out there's more to this project than meets the eye. Thanks to

  • Town Mountain videos online

    Town Mountain recorded a trio of live, in-studio videos during the Knoxville Rhythm N Blooms festival this past Spring. These videos, showcasing songs from their Steady Operator CD, are now available in HD at Live and Breathing. Here's a look at one of

  • A Song A Day from Heather Berry

    Bluegrass songstress Heather Berry has embarked on an ambitious project: to record and upload a song each day on video for an entire year. She is now up to day 9, all of which showcase her lovely singing voice, strong rhythm

  • Sarah Jarosz Secret Garden video

    A new live performance video is available from Sarah Jarosz's visit to the UK this summer to perform at the 2011 Americana Festival in Newcastle. It was shot by the folks at Amber, a Newcastle film and photographic archive and

  • Pert Near Sandstone – Solid Gone

    Pert Near Sandstone is a string band from Minnesota's Twin Cities who play a raucous blend of bluegrass and old time music. Their fourth CD, Paradise Hop, is due November 15 as an independent release. The band consists of Nate Sipe on mandolin

  • Chris, Aoife and a Goat Rodeo

    A third sneak peek video is out in advance of the October 24 release of The Goat Rodeo Sessions. This superstar project features four renowned instrumentalists, each widely-acknowledged as among the finest to ever play their instruments. Chris Thile is on mandolin,

  • Polk County from Della Mae

    Another band that made some waves at IBMA 2011 is Della Mae, who not only played some solid music at several late night showcases, but helped smash a number of stereotypes along the way. They perform without a banjo, in complete

  • Whiskey Shivers – Gimme All Your Lovin’

    Gimme All Your Lovin' is the title of a new music video from Austin's Whiskey Shivers, a track from their current CD, Batholith. The band consists of Bobby Fitzgerald on fiddle and lead vocals, Andrew VanVoorhees on bass, Horti Martín on guitar, and Joe

  • Jens Kruger tackles JS Bach

    Jens Kruger has released a video which captures his arrangement of the first Bach Cello Suite, played on the banjo. It was recorded in late September at Double Time Studio near Kruger's home in North Wilkesboro, NC, produced  by Philip Zanon. Jens

  • 7 down, 1 to go for Bearfoot

    With just one day lacking before the release of their American Story CD on Compass, Bearfoot has dropped the 7th video in their 8 Days of Bearfoot promotion. This time we are treated to Billy, a live a cappella number in which