Bluegrass print media news

Garden & Gun magazine's newest edition, February/March 2011, is titled Bluegrass Nation: 25 Bands Giving Old-Time Music a Whole New Sound. The issue features Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers as the lead story. Other artists included in the issue

Janet Davis has released a new mandolin instructional package, The Ultimate Mandolin Songbook. Like its companion book, The Ultimate Banjo Songbook, this new volume contains 26 popular bluegrass songs and tunes in tab and standard notation, along with a pair

Bluegrass Music Profiles magazine burst upon the scene in the Spring of 2003, at a time when conventional wisdom insisted that print media was on its way out. They started as a black and white journal, on newsprint, which by

First Quality Music was profiled in yesterday's Small Business section of the New York Times online edition. But it wasn't really the sort of story that every businessman wants to see splashed across the pages (screens?) of such a major publication.

Sunday's New York Times had a piece about a major acquisition by The Library Of Congress: a huge number of master recordings from Universal Music Group which have been sitting idle for as much as 85 years. These lacquer and glass

Alan John Britton’s biography, Uncle Art, information about which we shared with you in September, is now available after some production delays. It tells of the life and work of English A&R man/record producer Art Satherley, who was responsible for

“Bean Blossom, Indiana — near Brown County State Park and the artist-colony town of Nashville, Indiana — is home to the annual Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, founded in 1967 by Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. Widely recognized as the

Kansan Mark A. Johnson has done a great service for the bluegrass profession with his new digital publication, Stage Performance Guide For Your Bluegrass Band. Throughout this 60 page e-book, Johnson discusses the art of performance, as opposed to simply playing

Mel Bay has published a book of transcriptions and arrangements based on the playing of influential old time banjo picker Kyle Creed. It was compiled by two of today's clawhammer masters, Bob Carlin and Dan Levenson, who take a complementary,

The latest addition in a rich vein of new books about southern vernacular music is Gone to the Country - The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival, just published by the University of Illinois Press. Gone to the