• Musician Tips from BluegrassCountry.org

    Our friends at BluegrassCountry.org have launched a new feature as part of their 40th Anniversary celebration of bluegrass programming on WAMU. It's called Musician Tips and will be a weekly audio segment with prominent bluegrass artists sharing advice on a

  • Fretboard Journal #7 – Earl Scruggs

    The fall 2007 edition of Fretboard Journal is in the mail to subscribers and will soon be available at music dealers and Barnes & Noble. This edition features a cover story on banjo master Earl Scruggs. The story is appropriately titled

  • Russ Barenberg on WPLN today

    Sorry for the last minute notice on this... Flatpicker supreme Russ Barenberg will be the guest on today's (8/21) edition of Live in Studio C on Nashville's WPLN FM. The show airs each Tuesday at 11:06 a.m. Nashville time (noon eastern),

  • Banjo bandits ransom ill-gotten goods?

    We posted last Friday with a story out of Folsom, CA regarding a stolen banjo and how police were closing in on the bandits after they attempted to pawn it - and were captured on video surveillance cameras. Yesterday's Sacramento Bee

  • Free King Wilkie track in iTunes

    A track from King Wilkie's latest CD, Low Country Suite, has been selected as the Discovery Download in iTunes for this week. Any iTunes subscriber can get the track (Wrecking Ball) at no charge starting tomorrow (8/21) through next Monday

  • Bill Monroe in Newsweek

    Bill Monroe is the subject of a recent article published as a web exclusive on the Newsweek Entertainment section of MSNBC.com. The article is written in remembrance of the man who influenced so many, and forever altered the landscape of American

  • New live Dusters tracks on MySpace

    As they had promised earlier this summer, The Infamous Stringdusters have some new live tracks for free download on their MySpace page. The new tunes are This Weary Heart and 40 West, offering a fine chance to hear this young

  • Alison Krauss on cover of Verve

    Verve is the print publication face of Carilion Health System. Carilion currently operates eight medical hospitals in Southwest Virginia. Verve is published quarterly with articles on living better in Southwest Virginia. It's a free publication available alongside the real estate brochures

  • Banjo bandits still at large

    America's Most Wanted - Banjo Edition... CBS 13 in Sacramento, CA has the news of two banjo bandits who obtained a priceless 1931 Vegavox tenor banjo via burlarious entry into the owner's car in late July, and recently attempted

  • Dierks Bentley interviews Sam Bush

    We all seem to enjoy celebrity interviews. They give us a peek into the lives of the people who's music we love so much. So how could we not love a celebrity interview conducted by a celebrity? In a web exclusive