• Eight days of Bearfoot #1

    Compass Records has put together a clever video promotion to countdown the imminent release of American Story from Bearfoot on September 27. Each episode is a brief video vignette focusing on some aspect of the recording. This first has newest member

  • Sarah Jarosz on Acoustic Guitar

    Richard Thompson posted over the weekend about Sarah Jarosz being featured on the cover of the October issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine. I caught up with Sarah this afternoon in between her classes at the New England Conservatory to get her

  • WAMU moves to Bethesda

    WAMU's Bluegrass Country, perhaps the largest Internet broadcaster of bluegrass music, has moved the transmitter for their broadcast signal into Maryland, giving them a decidedly wider footprint in and around the Washington, DC market. Their transmission antenna is now located in

  • Sarah Jarosz fronts Acoustic Guitar

    Sarah Jarosz is on the cover of the October edition of Acoustic Guitar magazine, now on newsstands and shelves in stores. The multi-page cover feature written by Kenny Berkowitz discusses guitars, octave mandolins, and her expansive and adventurous sophomore album, Follow

  • Mustered Courage from Down Under

    I have thought a lot (and written a bit) about the "bluegrass" music being created by young string players whose impressions of its boundaries are shaped by the growing jamgrass scene, and the popularity of such groups as Punch Brothers,

  • Pandolfi talks The Festy, Turntable.fm

    Part Two of Milo Farineau's interview with Chris Pandolfi about The Infamous Stringdusters' upcoming festival The Festy, to take place in Nelson County, Virginia, October 6-9 Milo: So, what’s new with the Stringdusters? Chris: You can expect the release of our

  • New Stages for Snyder Family Band

    Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee, recently released information about the forthcoming album – Stages – by the Snyder Family Band. The release is scheduled for October 18. Stages is the group’s third CD and, like the others, it features the

  • A Light in the Window Again

    Rural Rhythm has released a debut single from Back To My Roots, the upcoming Carolina Road project. The song is A Light in the Window Again, a contribution from Tom T. and Dixie Hall, which tells of the restoration of the

  • Bill Monroe audio-visual tribute

    As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Bill Monroe, here is a fabulous tribute put together by Steve Ide. Steve paired photos taken by noted bluegrass archivist Fred Robbins at the 1979 Berkshire Mountains Bluegrass Festival with Robbin's recordings from those

  • Other Woman’s Blues video release

    Nu-Blu has just released the music video for the first single from their latest Pinecastle CD, The Blu-Disc. The song, Other Woman's Blues, is one we featured here several months back, an interesting "response" to the Dolly Parton mega-hit, Jolene, also