• Doyle on Blue Plate Special 9/6

    Here's a reminder that Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver will be performing live for a full hour tomorrow (9/6) on Blue Plate Special, streamed live at WDVX.com. The show runs from noon to 1:00 p.m. (ET). If you will be near

  • Czech bluegrass in Pittsburgh

    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story last week about Czech bluegrass band Druha Trava, who are touring in the US and Canada through the rest of September. The Gazette's Nate Guidry interviewed Robert Krestan, who founded the group in 1991 about

  • 2 more great bluegrass downloads from Rebel

    Rebel Records continues to make notable recordings from their back catalog available as download-only releases via iTunes. Two new titles have been added to their digital catalog this month. Blue Sparks is a 1983 release from Larry Sparks with Jim Heffernan

  • BluegrassRadio.org on the road

    Subscribers to Bluegrass Unlimited magazine may already have read the feature in the September issue on BluegrassRadio.org's Clyde Scott. The article sums up the history of Clyde's involvement in radio, and how he came to launch his 24/7 bluegrass streaming

  • The Baucoms on WWB

    Award-winning bluegrass power couple, Terry and Cindy Baucom, will both be interviewed over the next week on WorldWideBluegrass.com. Later today, Cindy will join WWB station manager Gracie Muldoon at 1:30 p.m. to talk about her own bluegrass radio show, Knee Deep

  • New Found Road on WDVX

    Blue Plate Special on WDVX in Knoxville will offer a live set from New Found Road today (8/31) at noon. It will be a fine chance to catch them with their newest member, Joe Bohoor, on mandolin. New Found Road is

  • New Musician Tip: Bill Emerson

    This week's Musicians Tip from BluegrassCountry.org comes from banjo man Bill Emerson. Bill earned his reputation as a solid picker with Jimmy Martin and The Country Gentlemen, and then served as a musician in the US Navy Band, Country Current

  • CDBaby Joins MP3 Revolution

    CDBaby has long been the entry point for independent artists longing for digital distribution. Creating a CDBaby account would give you the channel for getting your music in iTunes and other online digital download services. Now CDBaby has launched a new

  • Alison on Nightline

    Look for Alison Krauss as a guest on the Friday, August 31 edition of Nightline, the long-running ABC nightly news program. She'll be on for a regular Nightline feature called Playlist, where prominent pop artists discuss their favorite songs -

  • Krauss-Plant samples at Rounder.com

    Rounder has posted audio samples online from their upcoming Robert Plant/Alison Krauss release, due October 23. Bluegrass purists may argue that information about this CD has no place on Bluegrass Today, as there is little - if any - bluegrass