• Happy Birthday to Little Jody Rainwater

    Charles Johnson is better known to bluegrass fans as Little Jody Rainwater, bass player with bluegrass legends Flatt & Scruggs during the early 1950s. Today is Jody's 89th birthday, and the radio station that he called home after departing from the

  • WNRV goes online

    WNRV, AM 990, here in the New River Valley, has gone online. Their live feed is not yet operational, but they are working on it, and tell me it should be available soon. The website is up and running though, and

  • Cherryholmes on XM Radio

    Our good friend Wichita Rutherford is hosting the family band Cherryholmes on his XM Radio show this afternoon. Wichita's show is called The Grand Old Time Machine. He travels back and forth through time playing the best of bluegrass from today

  • Blue Highway on SIRIUS Bluegrass

    Starting this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. (4/11 - EDT) there will be four opportunities to catch Blue Highway live on SIRIUS Bluegrass over the next few days. They will perform material from their latest CD, Through The Window Of A

  • Cindy Baucom: 25 years of bluegrass radio

    Cindy Baucom is an award winning bluegrass radio personality. Her syndicated show, Knee-Deep In Bluegrass, is broadcast on radio stations around the country. Recently the show added several new affiliates. WXBC 104.3 FM, in Hardinsburg, KY is now airing the show every

  • Abby and Bela on WDVX

    On today's (4/3) edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX, Abigail Washburn & Sparrow Quartet featuring B?©la Fleck will perform. The show airs at noon (EDT) from the Knoxville, TN studios of WDVX before a live audience, ahead of their

  • Evans, Bledsoe on WFDU

    Carol Beaugard has two interesting guests lined up for this morning's (3/28) edition of Lonesome Rine RFD on WFDU-FM. Bluegrass Now publisher Wayne Bledsoe and jazz/bluegrass sax man Bill Evans are both scheduled for a visit. Brance posted last week with

  • Blue Highway on XM

    Blue Highway will be the featured guest on this week's edition of Studio Special on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. They join host Kyle Cantrell for some live music from their new CD, Through the Window of a Train, and

  • Skaggs Place on Sirius all week

    Sirius Satellite Radio has announced that 13-time Grammy award-winning bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs will take over its Sirius Bluegrass channel (65) for an entire week. Skaggs Place will premiere on March 23 at 3 pm ET. The launch of Skaggs