Once again, we have a list off the most played bluegrass songs of the previous year, based on reporting to our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart during the 52 weeks of 2023. Congratulations to everyone who made the cut! ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Blue Highway Lonesome State
The Kitchen Dwellers are an interesting band to consider, from a bluegrass perspective. They exist within the typical four-piece bluegrass format - guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass - but use the instruments to record and perform music that would never be welcomed
Another new music video is available this week, this time from Tennessee's mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis, with a tune from his upcoming album, Happy Valley. In fact, it's the title track, one Wyatt wrote at 12 years old, like all of
Sweden's New Valley String Band got together in much the same manner as musicians do anywhere in the world. It's three members, Adam Bülow on fiddle, Michael Nyberg on guitar, and Lukas Lindberg on banjo, met and started playing together
It's almost New Year's Eve, everyone. Got your champagne, and your black eyed peas? Here's a New Year's contribution from our friends in Bangkok, Bluegrass Underground Thailand, with an internationally-created video arrangement of Auld Lang Syne. The group hosts a weekly
British Columbia grassers Under The Rocks also have their next album set for release early in the new year, with a single for the title track this month to introduce people to the sound. Their subtle, low key delivery brings
The Bicentennial Bluegrass Band, aka, The Keith Unit, Paris, France 1977 (Tony Rice, Bill Amatneek,Bill Keith, David Grisman, Darol Anger) - photo © Patrick Ciocca Noted west coast bass player and bluegrass chronicler Bill Amatneek has made one of the vignettes
Britain's Urban Folk Quartet has spent the past 14 years refining their unique and eclectic sound, which draws equally from English, Celtic, and Appalachian resources. It's not odd to also find traces of other European traditional music in their repertoire,
Among the 2024 inductees into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame is Tulsa fiddler Shelby Eicher, who had dedicated his professional career to country, bluegrass, and swing music. Like so many top traditional musicians, Shelby grew up in a musical family,
Mountain Home Music recording artist Carley Arrowood had a sweet idea for a video to accompany her single from this past summer, Chasin' Indigo. The song is one she wrote with her husband, Daniel Thrailkill, about the beauty of sunsets, and
