Music

Nu-Blu has announced the addition of Calder Baker to the band, playing banjo. A recent graduate of the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University, Baker was born and raised in Grand Rapids, MI and started his pursuit of bluegrass

East Of Monroe, a bluegrass band based in Maryland and northern Virginia, has been on tour in Ireland. They have promised to send along something of a travelogue of their experiences, and here is the final installment. Hello from back in

David Parmley has announced Shayne Bartley as the newest member of his touring band, Cardinal Tradition. He will be playing mandolin with the group. Bartley has been involved in bluegrass at the professional level for more than 30 years, starting as

Wayne Erbsen and Native Ground Books & Music have released a new title for people just getting started in the wonderful world of mandolin. It's called Easy 2-Chord Songs for Mandolin, which perfectly describes the contents. One of the primary appeals

Today’s single release, the 9th in the 11 weeks of new singles program by Pinecastle Records, is Deanie Richardson’s Stoney Mae, a song written by Richardson and Bill Tennyson.  Richardson says this about how the song came to be and what

Ernie Thacker could have quit a hundred times since that awful April night 12 years ago, when a car crash cut short his solo bluegrass career and left him paralyzed below the waist. But he didn’t. He sang when he could,

Pinecastle Records has released a single from one of our favorite family groups, Williamson Branch. It's a home grown band, created by longtime grasser Kevin Williamson and his wife, Debbie. Kevin plays guitar, and Debbie mandolin, with teen daughters Melody on

Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of Unspoken Tradition to the label. Based in western North Carolina, the band specializes in original bluegrass music, and impressed the folks at Mountain Home with their two prior self-produced projects. They have

For more than a quarter century, The Bluegrass Brothers have been traveling the country, performing hard core, mountain style bluegrass wherever they go. Heavily influenced by the Stanley sound from their native southwestern Virginia, this band is among the most

Patuxent Music in Maryland has announced the signing of Jeff Scroggins & Colorado to the label. They will start to work right away on a new album, with Mark Schatz producing. The band consists of bluegrass veterans Greg Blake on guitar