• 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

  • Grammy committee says Hag is not bluegrass

    The nominating committee for the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences, who distribute the Grammy Awards each year, decided yesterday that the new release from Merle Haggard, titled The Bluegrass Sessions would not be eligible for Grammy consideration in

  • Bush and Douglas on BluegrassCountry.org

    This morning (11/1), BluegrassCountry.org has interviews on tap with a couple of bluegrass and acoustic music legends. Sam Bush drops by at 9:00 a.m. to talk with Katy Daley about his current tour with Edgar Meyer and Jerry Douglas, which stops

  • Bill Emerson interview online

    We've posted recently about banjo man Bill Emerson's new CD, Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band, and the former member of The Country Gentlemen, The Sunny Mountain Boys and the US Navy Band's Country Current coming back to music

  • Larry Keel on Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour

    Acoustic guitar Maharishi Larry Keel, along with his band Natural Bridge, will be making an appearance on WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour on Monday, November 12, 2007. If you've ever seen Keel and band in concert you know what kind of

  • Bluegrass Halloween on WOMR

    The Bradford Street Bluegrass show on WOMR-FM is being given over to haunts and haints tomorrow in honor of Halloween. The show airs regularly on Wednesday evenings from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (ET), so the program hosts decided to use a Halloween