Paul Prestopino, a renowned multi-instrument sideman and recording engineer, with long experience in bluegrass, old-time, folk, and contra dance musics, passed away peacefully at his home in Roosevelt, NJ, on July 16, 2023. He was 84. One of two sons of
Turnberry Records has a pair of new singles for rising bluegrass artists Caleb Bailey & Paine's Run, taken from their upcoming debut album with the label. They have chosen to release a secular song, written by Bailey, and a gospel
Iowa's Lori King & Junction 63 have another single this month from their upcoming EP, Straight From The Heartland, produced by Darin Aldridge. The group is based around Lori and her husband Joe, who reside in the small town of Drakesville,
Unless you have a magical gift that allows you to completely ignore popular culture in the English-speaking world, you are probably aware of English singer and actor Harry Styles, who has been a pop sensation this past few years since
North Carolina banjo man Andy Lowe has a new single with Mountain Fever Records, a new version of the ancient murder ballad, Barbry Allen. Lowe spares us the more than a dozen verses that the song has had over the past
Jerry Salley, Rick Lang, and Joe Dan Cornett Billy Blue Publishing in Nashville, a division of Daywind Music Group and closely aligned with Billy Blue Records, is continuing its aggressive addition of top bluegrass songwriters to their roster with the signing
South Korean bluegrass group Country GongBang has been selected to receive the International Bluegrass Music Association's 2023 International Band Performance Grant. This annual award is given to an especially promising act from outside the United States to help assist with
Dark Shadow Recording has a new single for Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers, the third from their upcoming debut project with the label. It's a new song, written by Prowlers bassist Jon Goldfine with Rick Lang. An old time country two-step, Subscription To
One of our favorite young bluegrass acts of recent years has been High Fidelity, based around the husband-and-wife partnership of Jeremey Stephens and Corrina Rose Logston. Having met both of them separately in their teens, before they knew each other,
Bonfire Music Group has a final single release for Danny Burns ahead of his latest album, Promised Land, which is due next month. Danny is an Irish-born singer who has made the transition to the US with his family, where he
