Bluegrass print media news

New Leaf Publishing Group in Green Forest, AR has announced a May 15, 2014 release for You Don't Cry Out Loud - the Lily Isaacs Story, an autobiography. Lily is the matriarch of the enormously popular bluegrass gospel family, The Isaacs,

Fiddler magazine has come up with a unique way to celebrate their 20th year of publishing. They have released a retrospective CD/book package called Fiddlers 20 which includes transcriptions and recordings by 20 artists featured in the magazine over that same

Mike Munford, reigning IBMA Banjo Player of the Year, was profiled in today's edition of his hometown paper, The Baltimore Sun. The piece by features writer Wesley Case follows Mike from his first exposure to the 5 string at 15 years

Christmas time is coming … and this new book, Inventing The American Guitar, may well be an ideal present for those interested in the history of the American flat-top guitar. Sub-titled The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C.F. Martin and His Contemporaries

Today is a big day for the venerable Banjo NewsLetter. With their November 2013 issue, their 481st, the monthly magazine celebrates 40 years of continuous publication. The cover depicts BNL's publishers, Spencer and Donald Nitchie, who continue to manage the only print

For a limited period only the University of Illinois Press (UIP) is making available in an E-book format three top quality bluegrass titles. Beginning on September 24, the date on which the International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass event in

Bill Amatneek has had quite a career playing bass and banjo in and around bluegrass and acoustic music. He was visible in the 1970s with Vern and Ray, and left a permanent mark as bassist on the seminal debut album

Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, the autobiography of Josh Graves (edited by Fred Bartenstein) has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Since 1991, the ARSC has sought to preserve and study historical sound recordings

Ricky Skaggs is on tour again this month; nothing new there. But this time around, he's on the book circuit, doing interviews and signings at major booksellers around the country for his newly-released autobiography, Kentucky Traveler - My Life In

Go ahead... insert your favorite banjo jokes here. Those of us blessed with an affinity for the five string understand banjo envy when we see it, and that the mind of a banjo picker is one that masters detail and