Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music, a book from David Menconi whose title perfectly describes its content, has been singled out for a Certificate of Merit by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. The
The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America, known familiarly by the acronym SPBGMA, has announced the nominees for their 2025 Bluegrass Music Awards. Votes are tallied and winners named during the organization's annual convention, held at the
Here's a couple of names for you... Kenny Baker and Randall Franks. Anyone who follows bluegrass knows of Kenny Baker, widely regarded as among the finest fiddlers to ever play the music, and certainly the chief exemplar of Bill Monroe's
High Horse is a new young experimental/progressive stringband based in Boston, featuring a quartet that met while enrolled as students at the Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. They have all completed their degree programs
For their 2024 Christmas single on Thoroughbred Records, bluegrass gospel stalwarts Chosen Road have chosen How Many Kings, a song written by Jason Germain and Marc Martel, and originally recorded by their band, downhere, in 2009. Also featured on the track,
Here's the video of Billy Strings, performing last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. As he typically does on television, Billy played a solid bluegrass number, this time, his current single from Highway Prayers, Seven Weeks in County, with
Jim Laprad, Dave Russell, Wendy Smith, and Matt Stoddard at the Masonic Hall in Madison Heights, MI Patty and Lare Williams of P. Williams Productions have put together a documentary outlining the career of Michigan bluegrass musician Wendy Smith. Wendy is
Avant-garde grasser extraordinaire Billy Strings is booked to perform Thursday, November 28, on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The show airs at 11:35 (eastern) on NBC affiliate stations. So when you sit down to that late night turkey sandwich, with
Mountain Home Music has a music video release today for The Grascals, and their current radio single, Coal Dust Kisses. Written by Susanne Mumpower and Jerry Salley, this feel-good song will stir up memories for anyone who lives or lived in
The Grand Ole Opry has released a brief interview with Jason Carter and Michael Cleveland, two extra heavy hitters in the bluegrass fiddle world, about their twin fiddle collab album coming next spring. So far three singles from the record have
