• The First Noel from Jacob Underwood

    Jacob Underwood, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and third-generation grasser, has released a new album of Christmas music this month. It's titled Christmas Greetings from Jacob Underwood: Songs for a Merry Christmas, containing 12 tracks of holiday favorites, recorded with bluegrass and acoustic

  • Old Hickory from Andy Leftwich

    It's always a good time for a fiddle tune, and that's just what bowmeister Andy Leftwich has brought for his latest single with Mountain Home Music. It's a new one he put together called Old Hickory, with a Texas feel and

  • Mayne Smith passes

    Mayne Smith at the Bluegrass Music Symposium - photo © Carl Fleischhauer;and with the Pigeon Hill Boys - photo © Ann Milovsoroff This remembrance of Mayne Smith (March 15, 1939-November 12, 2025) is a contribution from Neil V. Rosenberg, noted bluegrass

  • Christmas Time Back Home from High Fidelity

    Rebel Records is joining in the Christmas cheer with a new single release from High Fidelity, their remake of a classic Country Gentlemen number. It's Christmas Time Back Home, written by John Duffey and Ann Streeter, and recorded by the Gents

  • Chris Davis to Billy Blue Records

    When we spoke last month with Chris Davis, soon to be late of Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, about his new solo career, he intimated that a record label signing was imminent, but that we couldn't say anything about

  • Hills of Home from Luke Shamblin

    Bluegrass artist Luke Shamblin has chosen a Hazel Dickens classic, Hills of Home, for his latest single, as a personal tribute in this 100th anniversary year of her birth. Like Hazel, he is a West Virginia native, now living in