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Here's a fun video clip which has made the rounds on the Internet a number of times. It features a seven year old Ricky Skaggs performing with Flatt & Scruggs on their television program. He sings Ruby and plays his

Brance has posted a number of times recently about artists who have bluegrass music as a recurring theme in their work. Earlier this week we found another, William H. "Scoot" Dryden, Jr., whose large oil paintings are far more abstract than

Award winning bluegrass radio show Into The Blue has announced a new feature. The second hour of each show will now be known as Classic Hour. The focus during Classic Hour will be directly on first and early second generation

The following is a contribution from our newest correspondent, Tom Travis. Tom writes from England where he is prominent in bluegrass journalism and on radio, and also performs with his band, Bluegrass Incident. Here is his critique of a recent

Bob Taylor, the man behind the immensely popular Taylor Guitars, is the subject of a new documentary-style DVD distributed by Mel Bay Publications. It's part of their new Instrumental Innovators series, which profiles instrument makers who have had a major impact

McCoury Music has posted audio samples for all 12 tracks on the new Larry Sparks CD, The Last Suit You Wear - along with special, pre-release Internet pricing. The CD isn't set for an official release until May 1, but online

With a title like How The Hippies Ruin't Hillbilly Music, how can you resist? This self-published book by Stephen T. Wishnevsky was released in late 2006, but had escaped our attention until now. It is described as "a concise compendium of

Here's another post from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. James E Akenson has announced that

Easter Sunday (4/8) marks our first chance to hear the upcoming CD from Cherryholmes. They will all be with Kyle Cantrell on XM's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14), as he features each of the tracks from Cherryholmes II, offering comments and

Those interested in festival documentaries will soon have another title to add to their collection. The Bradstock XIII festival that took place on the grounds of the Long Island Maritime Museum over Labor Day weekend 2006, was filmed and is