• Randy Kohrs video on CMT.com

    Well... boy, howdy! The Randy Kohrs video for Who's Goin' With Me that made it to #3 two weeks ago in the Pure 12-Pack Countdown on CMT's new digital music channel, CMT Pure, ended up #1 last week in the

  • AKUS on the CMAs tonight

    Alison Krauss & Union Station will perform on tonight's (11/7) Country Music Association Awards show, televised in the US on ABC at 8:00 p.m. (EST). For AKUS fans, this may be the last chance you'll have to see them for some

  • Flatpick Jam Vol. 4 DVD

    The latest DVD release from Flatpicking Guitar is Volume 4 in Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam series. Like the three that preceded it, this DVD is a play-along video where Brad demonstrates flatpicking solos for 11 tunes, and then plays each

  • Newest member of Lost and Found?

    The accompanying photo shows Lost and Found with their newest member. And no... we don't mean the diminutive guitarist on the far right. The photo comes from the Blue Ridge Muse blog, and was taken by Doug Thompson. It shows the

  • XM bluegrass news

    Kyle Cantrell, host of XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (track 14), passed along news about a few special programs and features coming up this week on XM. The current edition of Studio Special, XM's live-in-the studio bluegrass show, airs tonight (11/5)

  • Rob Ickes and his Ickes model guitar

    Wechter Guitars has posted two new videos on YouTube, both of which show reso-master Rob Ickes test driving a new 6535R Wechter/Scheerhorn resonator guitar - the Rob Ickes signature model. The video was shot in a hotel room at last

  • Kenny and Amanda Smith on WDVX

    Kenny & Amanda Smith will join Mike Kelly this morning on A Cumberland Sunday Morning, broadcast on WDVX in Knoxville, TN from 8:00 a.m. until noon (ET). Mike will be playing fine bluegrass Gospel music all morning, and talking with

  • Next Great American Band ‚Äì Round 3

    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. I'm happy to report that both bluegrass representatives made it

  • Raising Sand rocks the charts

    Of this fall's new releases, few have received as much attention in the music business press as Raising Sand from Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, just out on Rounder Records. The notion of the sweet-voiced bluegrass balladeer teamed with the

  • Nickel Creek live show on NPR tonight

    When Nickel Creek performs live tonight (11/2) at Washington DC nightspot 9:30 Club, National Public Radio's microphones will be set up, carrying the entire concert live via online streaming at NPR.org. The band is in the home stretch of their Farewell