Charlie Daniels has worn a good many hats over his 50 years in the music business. His first big hit came in 1973 with Uneasy Rider, a countryfied talking blues, years before the rap craze began. The hilarious song, following on
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Darrell Webb Band on Wheeling Jamboree
Darrell Webb was unable to debut his new band at IBMA this year, though he was on hand performing with Mashville Brigade and filling in with Audie Blaylock & Redline. You'll have a chance to hear them this weekend though, live
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Claire Lynch on Lonesome Pine RFD
Claire Lynch will be featured in an interview Friday morning (10/16) with Carol Beaugard on her Lonesome Pine RFD program on WFDU, broadcasting in the New York City metro market. Carol spoke with Claire about her latest Rounder CD, Whatcha Gonna
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Backstage at the IBMA Awards show
Cindy Baucom, co-producer of the 2009 International Bluegrass Music Awards show, has posted some terrific behind-the-scenes photos on her Knee Deep In Bluegrass blog. Cindy managed the show along with Chris Stuart. She has shots from the rehearsals and sound checks
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Ralph Stanley on WAMU
Ralph Stanley will be a guest today (10/14) on the Diane Rehm Show, broadcast on WAMU 88.5 FM in the Washington, DC metro market. He will join her live in the studio to discuss his autobiography, Man of Constant Sorrow:
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Rounder Records Celebrates 40 Years
Monday night fans and musicians filled the Grand Ole Opry house in Nashville to help Rounder Records celebrate forty years in the record business. I really feel like we did help them, because the show was not only a concert,
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Mountain Heart to sing at Martinsville
Mountain Heart has been selected to perform the National Anthem before the NASCAR TUMS Fast Relief 500 race at Martinsville Speedway on October 25. This is a major event is southwestern VA and throughout the racing world, which will be
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ChapTV – behind the scenes video
The Chapmans have released a behind-the-scenes, "making of" video chronicling the location shoot for their new music video, Bubble Gum Baby. The song will be included on their upcoming CD, Grown Up - A Revisionist History. In keeping with the Chapmans'
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Eric Gibson on WFDU
Eric Gibson, the banjo-playing half of the notorious Gibson Brothers, will be interviewed Friday morning (10/9) on WFDU. He will join Carol Beaugard on her Lonesome Pine RFD program at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) to talk about their latest CD, Ring
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Rounder celebrates the big 4-0
It seems like only yesterday that we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of bluegrass music, marked by the first Grand Ole Opry performance in 1946 by the "Original Blue Grass Band:" Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Chubby