Today, renowned comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin releases his new single, Bluegrass Radio, with banjo maestro Alison Brown on Compass Records, and we are happy to introduce the song in this detailed interview they did with our very
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Cannonball from Wood Box Heroes
Bluegrass super group Wood Box Heroes is back this week with a new single, one written by bassist Barry Bales some years ago with bluegrass-turned-country star Chris Stapleton, called Cannonball. The song isn't actually released until tomorrow, but the band is
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Welcome Off The Rails and Coming Home to You
Say hello to a new young bluegrass band from Nashville, Off The Rails, which consists of a number of strong pickers you might recognize. If you were at SPBGMA 2024 you already know about this bunch, who debuted there in
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Runaway Traveler – new single from Chandler Beavers
Chandler Beavers - photo © Chelse Warren / OpenHeadTakesPhotos West Virginia mandolinist Chandler Beavers has a new single on offer, the first since his 2023 album, 4:09. Beavers works these days as a member of rockin' jamgrass band Alabaster Boxer, and with
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Henderson Hill – new video from Chris Jones
Mountain Home Music has a new single for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, another from their current six-song EP, Pages In Your Hand. This time out it's one Chris wrote with Thomm Jutz called Henderson Hill, which is under a
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Build Me An Ark from Caroline Owens
Fast rising bluegrass vocalist Caroline Owens has another new single to share from her upcoming project with Skyline Records, this time a new gospel number called Build Me An Ark. Written by noted bluegrass photographer Laci Mack, the song retells the
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Contrabuffoon from EZRA
Here's a new outfit with an adventurous approach to modern acoustic string music, clearly informed by bluegrass. The quartet calls themselves EZRA, and consists of Jacob Jolliff on mandolin, Jesse Jones on guitar, Max Allard on banjo, and Craig Butterfield on
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Roll On Mississippi – debut single from Red Camel Collective
If you recognize the folks in the photo above as Junior Sisk's band, you aren't far wrong. Noticing Junior's obvious absence, one might be tempted to say... "hey, what's up with that?" Well, this is Red Camel Collective, a new outfit
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Time – latest single from Drive Time
Central North Carolina's, Drive Time, has released a new single, Time, an original composition penned by Samantha Coe, wife of guitarist Bailey Coe. Recorded at the East Tennessee State University bluegrass program's studio, Troy Boone (Amanda Cook Band) and Sage
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Sixteen Tons from Clay Hess
Bluegrass super picker and bandleader Clay Hess has a new single to share this week, his cut of the Merle Travis classic, Sixteen Tons. This hard core coal mining song was first recored by Travis in 1946, though it was Tennessee