• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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