• Two free tracks from Bearfoot

    Bearfoot is giving away two free tracks on their Facebook page, both from their upcoming album, American Story, scheduled for an October release on Compass. Well, one is a track from the CD (When You're Away), and the other is a

  • Sneak peek from new Darin & Brooke CD

    Darin & Brooke Aldridge have let loose a song from their upcoming So Much In Between CD, due August 16 from Crossroads. It was recorded by their road band, with Darin on guitar, Brooke on mandolin, Chris Bryant on banjo, Dwayne

  • William Smith Monroe from Niall Toner

    Bill Monroe's music has obviously had a profound impact on players and followers of bluegrass and related acoustic music around the world. It started out in the southeastern US on "hillbilly" radio, and grew to include an ever larger audience

  • New CD from The Bankesters

    The Bankester Family has released their third self-produced album, The Bankesters. Phil Bankester, who manages and performs with his wife, three daughters, and one son-in-law, tells us that this new project represents a couple of major milestones for the group. Not

  • New Chris Jones compilation in September

    Seeing news about our photo coverage of the Red, White and Bluegrass festival prompted a note from Chris Jones and the Night Drivers as they were headed to Morganton yesterday for their fourth consecutive year of teaching and performing at

  • Windy Hill – Let’s Go To The Fair

    I have on several occasions bemoaned the difficulty of trying to give a fair listen to all the new projects that appear in our mailbox, or increasingly, via digital press distribution. Plain fairness, and sound news judgement, requires that I

  • Suzy Bogguss – American Folk Songbook

    It's a CD... It's a book... It's American Folk Songbook! Actually, it's all of those things, this new project from Suzy Bogguss. It finds this celebrated country hit-maker recording music much closer to the folk music she grew up singing, and

  • From Rock N’ Roll to Bill Monroe

    Tommy Webb is a fine bluegrass singer and songwriter from Bill Monroe's native state of Kentucky who has a special Monroe tribute song to honor Big Mon's 100th birthday this year. Webb has gained some notoriety for his clever original songs