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Mountain Fever Records has released a first single from the upcoming Volume Five CD, Children Of The Mountain. The entire album is given over to songs that reflect the lives and values of  hardworking coal-miners of Appalachia. The single, Anywhere Is Home

Everybody in bluegrass and old time music loves a good killing song, right? Throw in a good courthouse shootout, and it's a sure thing. Just such an incident took place in 1912 at the Carroll County, VA courthouse, where the locally-celebrated

The Holy Coming Of The Storm is the title of the new CD from Seattle's Cahalen Morrison & Eli West on Hearth Music. It's an interesting mix of bluegrass and old time influences with Morrison primarily on clawhammer banjo and West

Today's (5/23) press conference to announce the 2011 Honors & Awards nominees from the Americana Music Association will be streamed live online. The announcements will be made from the Gibson Showroom in New York city starting at 2:30 p.m. (EDT). Roseanne

I spoke last week with Tim Carter, who filled me in on a new project he recently completed with his brother Danny as The Carter Brothers. You might think of Tim and Danny as the black sheep cousins of The Carter

Rounder has released a full length video for Dimming Of The Day, another stellar track from Alison Krauss & Union Station's Paper Airplane CD. The song comes from Richard Thompson, one of England's most prolific contemporary songwriters, also noted as an

The good folks at The Music Link are offering mandolinists a chance to grab an LM-500 from The Loar for $0.00. All you have to do to enter is visit The Loar on Facebook, and click the Like button. The contest

When we spoke with Rob Ickes earlier this week, he had some exciting news to share. First off, he had just found out that he will be featured on the cover of Guitar Player magazine in August. The editorial staff told

We've all heard about how tough the job market is these days, and some of us have had personal experience that bears it out. But if you are a radio pro in, or willing to relocate to DC, WAMU's Bluegrass

Hal Leonard has released a new fake book for bluegrass musicians  - and for anyone who might want to add a few bluegrass standards to their repertoire. The Real Bluegrass Book includes more than 300 songs across 432 pages, presented in