Online resources and features

Here's an interesting story that I missed while I was out of town last week. CMT.com put up a nice feature last Wednesday on Nashville's long-time bluegrass headquarters, The Station Inn. Since the club first began promoting bluegrass shows in the

We have posted a number of times in the past few months about the new royalty rates for Internet radio established by the US Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates represent a dramatic increase in the royalties owed to both

Rebel Records has reissued two more bluegrass classics as download only releases, available only from eMusic and iTunes. Both were originally released on LP in the early-to-mid 1970s. Folks these days know Ricky Skaggs as a successful band leader, vocalist and

The video is now up of the recent appearance by Special Consensus on Michael Jonathan's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. Special C shared the bill with folk/country singer Elizabeth Cook, and performed songs from their upcoming Pinecastle CD, The Trail

Canadian banjo player Jayme Stone shared a series of banjo travelogues with our readers during his recent musical journey through West Africa. Jayme was traveling on a Chalmers Arts Fellowship grant to research the music of African musicians who perform

There is a new video from The Infamous Stringdusters up on YouTube. It was shot by Craig Havighurst while the band was touring in Colorado in April, and shows them doing an in-studio performance of Can't Get You Out Of My

We see two great bluegrass offerings available via streaming online audio for Friday, May 4. First up at noon (EDT) is a live performance by James Reams & The Barnstormers on WDVX's Blue Plate Special. The show airs in Knoxville, TN

We posted in late March about a CD from John Prine and Mac Wiseman, Standard Songs for Average People. It was released last week (4/24) on Prine's Oh Boy Records, and there is an excerpt on YouTube of an interview

As we could have predicted, a video capture of the recent triple banjo performance on The Late Show with David Letterman has made its way to YouTube. The clip is taken from Wednesday's program (4/26) and features Steve Martin, Tony

Speaking of Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby... Yesterday's edition of The New York Times carried a review of their concert this Tuesday night in the Big Apple. Mr. Hornsby, who is fluent in piano idioms from gospel to modern jazz, aligned his