• CMT.com lists Top Ten Bluegrass CDs for 2005

    CMT.com, the online side of cable network CMT (Country Music Television), has posted a list of their Ten Favorite Bluegrass Albums of 2005. The choices cover an interesting range of styles, and include both new and re-issue projects from legends and

  • Del McCoury interview in TN paper

    Del McCoury fans should enjoy reading this article, which ran in December 29 issue of The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro, TN. Though published primarily as a preview piece on The Del McCoury Band's annual New Year's Eve concert in

  • UPDATE – link to Blue Highway on NPR

    We posted last week to let everyone know that Rob Ickes and Tim Stafford would be guests on National Public Radio's All Things Considered program on Christmas Day. At that time, we suggested that audio of the interview would appear

  • Episode #9 – Sammy Shelor

    In episode #9 of The GrassCast we bring you an interview with Sammy Shelor. Sammy stopped by the AcuTab office to share some exciting news about The Lonesome River Band with John, and we captured it as an interview. They

  • Boston Globe covers Berklee bluegrass

    We have posted several times about the recent embrace of traditional bluegrass instruments as a principal of study at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, MA. While other post secondary schools facilitate the study of bluegrass music - most

  • Deering Banjos – Made In America

    John Ratzenberger's Made In America is a popular television program on the cable network, Travel Channel. The show journeys to sites all over the United States to highlight businesses, both large and small, who manufacture products here in America. A

  • Rhonda Vincent on ice Christmas Day

    Just a reminder about NBC's December 25th broadcast of their Holiday On Ice Christmas Special, airing on Sunday from 2:00-4:00 p.m. (EST). We made reference to this show before, and then again here, as it will feature a performance by

  • King Wilkie launches discussion board

    Fans of bluegrass fashionistas, King Wilkie, may want to pay a visit to their new bulletin board discussion forum. The site is set up quite similarly to others of its type, and folks who frequent such chat sites should have

  • NPR does bluegrass on Christmas Day

    Tim Stafford and Rob Ickes of Blue Highway will be featured guests on the Christmas Day edition of NPR's All Things Considered radio program. Tim reports that they conducted a lengthy interview with Debbie Elliott, host of Weekend All Things