• Mountain Heart backstage at Mountain Stage

    Here's some video shot backstage before Mountain Heart's recent performance on NPR's Mountain Stage, along with some extended clips from their live set on the broadcast. The show, which featured songs from the band's That Just Happened CD, was aired over

  • Rob Ickes on Guitar Player cover

    The August issue of Guitar Player magazine has bluegrass music's own Rob Ickes right there on the cover, where you'll more commonly find a metalhead with a threatening grimace. You can find the magazine on newsstands across the US, and

  • Fired Up banjo tabs available

    Tom Adams has published an ebook of banjo tab transcriptions from Fired Up, the latest album by Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper. The tabs are based on the playing of crackerjack picker Jessie Baker who tracked the record with Michael, but

  • Dailey & Vincent are Going To Georgia

    Dailey & Vincent recently posted this bus rehearsal video of Ralph Stanley's Going To Georgia, which one assumes will soon be making its way into the boys' stage show. The song was initially recorded by Ralph and his Clinch Mountain Boys,

  • AKUS on The View

    This morning's (8/5) edition of The View on ABC will include a live in-studio performance from Alison Krauss & Union Station. The band is on tour promoting their new CD, Paper Airplane, and making a stop in NYC between shows in

  • Zach Gilmer to Highway 111

    Zach Gilmer is now playing banjo and guitar, and providing harmony vocals, as a member of Sierra Hull & Highway 111. He's been with the band for a couple months, and Sierra says that he's committed for the next year

  • More Kenny Baker tribute from Grey Fox

    Here is another video from Grey Fox, again with a Kenny Baker tribute theme. This time, we have Tim O'Brien and Chris Thile offering up a twin mandolin version of Bill Monroe's Jerusalem Ridge, long associated with Baker for his definitive

  • Ryan Cavanaugh in Banjo NewsLetter

    The August edition of the venerable Banjo NewsLetter is out, with adventurous 5-string jazz banjo player Ryan Cavanaugh on the cover. Ryan spent the early aughts impressing judges at banjo competitions like Renofest, Merlefest and RockyGrass, each of which crowned his

  • Another live video from Monroeville

    Monroeville has released a second live video from their recent shoot at the Dumplin Valley Farm RV Park which also produced the Devil's Rope video we posted last week. The tune this time around is Passive Aggressive, included on their self-titled