Online resources and features

We received a note recently from Jim Peterson, who hosts a one hour, twice weekly bluegrass radio show on KMXT in Kodiak, Alaska. His show, The Acoustic Music Hour, has been running for 14 years, and airs on Tuesdays at

As one would have expected, someone has posted the video from Tony Trischka and Steve Martin's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show last Thursday up on YouTube. They were on to promote Tony's Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular CD, and played one

California photographer Tom Tworek has recently posted a gallery of images he shot at SuperGrass, the California Bluegrass Association's annual indoor winter festival, which ran February 1-4. These were taken from the stage, and are mostly close up, portrait shots of

Bluegrass Music Profiles has been publishing a bi-monthly print magazine since 2003, focusing on the personal side of bluegrass artists and personalities. They have just announced the debut of their bluegrass music charts, based on radio airplay from their list

Jason Skinner is a devoted student of the banjo style of Don Reno. At age 29, he's spent 15 years studying the Reno style, and has set out on a crusade to bring more banjo players to embrace Don's music

If you scour the web for general music industry news, you may have noticed that the most recent successful recording artist from another genre to embrace bluegrass is Tommy Ramone, from The Ramones, the notorious alternative rock band of the

When we posted last week that audio samples from the upcoming Uncle Earl CD, Waterloo, Tennessee, were up on the Rounder site, we also mentioned that the new project had been produced by John Paul Jones, former bass player and

CMT.com has a lengthy interview posted on their site with Jim Lauderdale. The interview is about Jim's new CD, Bluegrass, about which Brance spoke so highly last month. Jim talks about his discovery of bluegrass music while still a young teen. When

Tim O'Brien is offering a free download of The Ballad of Christopher Daniel Gay, a song he recently wrote and recorded, on his web site. Gay's tale was taken from the news headlines. He escaped from a South Carolina prison transport

There has been much discussion this past few weeks about Josh Shilling, the newest member of Mountain Heart who joined the band when founding member Steve Gulley departed in late 2006. Whenever a major band makes such a prominent change