Online resources and features

Americanaroots.com posted a Q&A type interview with Russell Moore of IIIrd Tyme Out yesterday. During the course of the interview they discuss the new Rounder release Footprints: A IIIrd Tyme Out Collection, the song selection for that compilation, recent band member

The Bluegrass Guide will launch their 2008 Songwriter Chat season tomorrow night (1/15) with noted songsmith Tim Stafford as their guest. This year's host for Songwriter Chat will be Eric Gibson, half of the bluegrass singing/songwriting duo, The Gibson Brothers. You

Multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky will be the featured guest on this week's edition of Old Time Jam with Hubie King on BluegrassCountry.org. Bruce spends an hour with Hubie talking about his music, and sharing a number of songs on fiddle, banjo and

Rounder Records has published two new interviews with artists whose debut CDs are due in the next few weeks. First is a discussion with Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent whose Dailey & Vincent project will be released on January 29. Darrin

Once again, this weekend's Grand Ole Opry broadcasts have much to offer bluegrass and acoustic music fans. Tonight's Friday Opry (1/11) will feature performances from Old Crow Medicine Show, The Del McCoury Band and Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys. On Saturday,

Newstarget.com published a satire piece last month that is worth the read. The piece builds on a recent lawsuit in which the RIAA maintained that copying a legally purchased CD to your computer's internal hard drive amounts to making

We told you last fall about the new theme song for the IBMA Awards Show, The Road From Rosine, which debuted in October '07 at the show in Nashville. The song was written by Mountain Heart fiddler Jim VanCleve at the

The folks at Acoustic Disc are offering free daily downloads from their web site. A different track will be available each day from one of their many fine audio recordings. Acoustic Disc is the label owned by David Grisman, and tracks

The Tryon Daily Bulletin, out of Tryon, NC, has a story featuring an interview with Tom Riggs of

Our friends at BluegrassCollege.org are ringing in the New Year with the launch of their free Bluegrass College Fakebook. The Fakebook currently consists of tabs (notation for the fiddle) for 10 bluegrass instrumentals. The tabs are available for all the bluegrass