When The Bluegrass Journeymen visited India early last year, they happened to hook up with singer/songwriter Jaimin Rajani, and went into the studio to record one of his songs, Can't Get Away. The Journeymen exist primarily to share bluegrass music with
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Papa Noel from Jackson Hollow
For their 2024 Christmas single for Mountain Fever Records, British Columbia's Jackson Hollow has resurrected Brenda Lee's wonderful cajun-themed song, Papa Noel. The original was the flip side of Brenda's 1958 holiday smash, Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, recorded when she
Tombstone Territory video from High Horse
High Horse is a new young experimental/progressive stringband based in Boston, featuring a quartet that met while enrolled as students at the Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. They have all completed their degree programs
How Many Kings video from Chosen Road with Emily Ann Roberts
For their 2024 Christmas single on Thoroughbred Records, bluegrass gospel stalwarts Chosen Road have chosen How Many Kings, a song written by Jason Germain and Marc Martel, and originally recorded by their band, downhere, in 2009. Also featured on the track,
Heady Wax Fiends to reissue Manzanita on vinyl
The Heady Wax Fiends Record Club and Real Gone Music have announced the latest in their audiophile vinyl resissues, the bluegrass classic Manzanita, from The Tony Rice Unit in 1979. This record hit like an earthquake when it was first released
Russell Moore to take guitar spot with Alison Krauss & Union Station
One thing we all learn in the bluegrass world is the inevitability of change. Our favorite bands switch personnel, and even acts that seem perfect are able to revise and develop in new ways that may surprise you at first,
Between The Coal Mines from Blue Lass
Britain's Blue Lass, a bluegrass trio using clawhammer banjo and three part harmony to present original music, has a single from their debut EP, Skylines & Coal Mines. It's one written by their banjo player, Ruth Eliza, titled Between the Coal
The Word from Teddy Barneycastle
Some of the holiday bluegrass music we are treated with around Christmas time is light and fluffy - feel good songs about Santa and spending time with family - and we enjoy hearing them year in and year out. Others
Clay Hess to The Seldom Scene
With the recent retirement of guitarist/vocalist Dudley Connell after nearly three decades, The Seldom Scene had big shoes to fill. But for a band whose genesis dates back to 1971, this isn't the first, or even second time they have
Charlie Chaney passes
Charlie Eugene Chaney, 69, of Stuart, VA passed away on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. Born in Ferrum, VA, he loved Jesus and serving Him, and wanted others to see Jesus in him. A skilled musician, Charlie worked for years as