• The Clark Brothers emerge victorious!

    We interrupt our Christmas programming for this final NGAB report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. The family

  • Final round in NGAB tonight

    Tonight (12/21) is the final show in Fox's Next Great American Band competition, and as we have been chronicling this past few weeks, The Clark Brothers are in the running for the big prize. While not strictly a bluegrass act,

  • Toby and Rob on Ellen

    Here's a YouTube clip of Toby Keith singing Please Come Home For Christmas on the Ellen show December 6. Rob Ickes is prominently featured on dobro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1BoXgzC4f0

  • Top Three for the Clarks

    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. The Clark Brothers will definitely be either first, second,

  • Can You Duet?

    With the television writer's strike in its sixth week, speculation has been rife that the 2008 American TV season would lean even heavier on reality shows. Right on time, CMT has announced that they have teamed up with the producers of

  • The Banjo in Beijing

    CBS recently ran a short piece on Abigail Washburn and her banjo. What makes Abigail newsworthy is the fact that she's playing, and singing, American music in China. The video shows footage of her performing at the Beijing Jazz Festival, and

  • Final Four: The Clarks made it!

    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. We're getting down to the final stretch on Next Great

  • Clark Brothers continue to wow

    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. The Clark Brothers delivered another truly outstanding performance on last

  • Plant/Krauss video debuts on CMT

    The first single from the new Robert Plant and Alison Krauss CD, Raising Sand, is for the song, Gone, Gone, Gone. The world premier of the music video for the single will be on November 29 on CMT's Top 20

  • Closeout for Cliff, Clarks continue

    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. Bluegrass got the boot last night when Cliff Wagner and