• Last Day of Galax

    Johnny Williams released his most recent CD, Last Day of Galax, in August but we didn't get a copy until this week. It clearly shows why Johnny has earned his reputation as among the most expressive singers of traditional bluegrass

  • Dailey & Vincent interview on XM

    Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent will stop by the Nashville studios of XM Satellite Radio this afternoon for a chat with Kyle Cantrell, host of XM's Bluegrass Junction. No doubt, their chat will focus primarily on Dailey & Vincent's big night

  • IBMA: Red Carpet video – episode 2

    Here is the second installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1). Katy Daley, of BluegrassCountry.org, continues as our hostess and interviews an all-star line up here in episode two. You'll see Del McCoury, Dan Tyminski, Nicky Sanders (Steep

  • IBMA: Red Carpet video – episode 1

    We know a lot of our readers didn't have the opportunity to attend this year's IBMA Awards Show in Nashville. We blogged it live, it was broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, but there was no television coverage of the event.

  • Banjos on All Things Considered

    Yesterday's (10/12) edition on Weekend All Things Considered on NPR included a segment on Africa To Appalachia, the recording that was born of banjoist Jayme Stone's musical journey of discovery in Western Africa. Stone partnered with Mansa Sissoko, a

  • Playing the banjo is polite

    According to USA Today, playing the banjo is polite. At least that's what I take away from a story they are currently running concerning a new biography of Emily Post. Emily Post is the author of the book Etiquette, first published

  • Melonie Cannon video trailer online

    The trailer for Melonie Cannon's video with Willie Nelson (which we told you about during IBMA) has been posted online. It's for the song Back To Earth from her current CD, And The Wheels Turn out last week on Rural

  • Randy Kohrs featured in EQ Magazine

    Earlier this year Randy Kohrs was a guest on the Rachael Ray Show as she considered the kitchen at his recording studio to be one of The Coolest Kitchens in America. The kitchen is styled as a 1950's diner. Kohrs' Slack

  • Jerry Douglas in Wall Street Journal

    Barry Mazor just wrote in to let us know that he has published an article about Jerry Douglas in today's Wall Street Journal. Titled Jerry Douglas, Irreplaceable Instrumentalist, the article spends time focusing on Douglas' accomplishments, but also on how his

  • IBMA: Alan Munde

    While walking around the trade show floor at IBMA last week, I ran across Alan Munde and stopped to chat for a moment. Here's the video. This one is short, runtime is 48 seconds. http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/munde.flv