Music

Mountain Home Music has released a debut single for their second album with North Carolina banjo player Tray Wellington and his band. From a start as five string man with Cane Mill Road while still in high school, Tray has developed

Steve Bruce, the banjo pickin' pastor from LaFollette, TN, has released another single from his all-instrumental project, What I Know Now. Even though all the tracks are banjo tunes, Steve says that they were all inspired by bits of scripture that

Bluegrass lovers throughout Kentucky are mourning the loss this week of beloved festival MC and radio host Ron Cornett, who died on September 17 following complications from surgery. He was 68 years of age. Ron hosted a regular program on the

The first single from the highly anticipated final recordings by Bobby Osborne, from his duet project with fellow mandolinist C.J. Lewandowski of The Po' Ramblin' Boys, is released today to radio on Turnberry Records. They've chosen a new version of Too

Ed Leonard, Adam McIntosh, and Jerry Salley at Billy Blue Records Bluegrass artist Adam McIntosh has been announced as the newest signee with Billy Blue Records. We all know Adam from his many years on guitar with Joe Mullins & The Radio

Mountain Fever Records has announced the signing of Appalachian Smoke to the label, with a new album expected next year. The band hails from that part of the southeastern US where Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee intersect, and with all five

2023 has been a banner year for The Fretliners, a Colorado quartet with an original bluegrass/string band sound. The group won the band competition at both the Telluride and RockyGrass bluegrass festivals in their home state this year, and scored

Addie Levy is a new bluegrass artist on the national scene, having just released her debut single, Blue Mountain. A talented young singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist now living in Nashville, Levy grew up in the Appalachian region of southwestern Virginia where

Curley Seckler and Willis Spears with The Nashville Grass Willis Spears, whose singing and guitar playing were remarkably similar to Lester Flatt's, and who served as Curley Seckler's partner in The Nashville Grass, passed away on Sunday, September 17, 2023, at

Katie K Wrangles, the booking and management firm run by Katie Kirchner in Michigan, has announced that they will now be representing the duo of Compton & Newberry. That, of course, is mandolin maestro Mike Compton with banjo player and