Music

Today marks the official release of the latest album from The Grascals, Up All Night, on Mountain Home Music. And we are happy to share the title track with our readers. Chris Davis, Grascals' guitarist and lead singer on this number,

Robert Phillip 'Bob' Everhart, multi-instrumentalist, singer, entertainer, old-time country, bluegrass, and folk artist, passed away during the evening of August 20, 2021, due to heart complications. He was 85 years of age. Bob Everhart, founder and president of the National Traditional Country

Australian bluegrass singer Kristy Cox, now living in Nashville, is working on her seventh album with noted songwriter and producer Jerry Salley. But this next will be the first on the label he represents, Billy Blue Records. They have a debut

Thomas Cassell is a fast-rising bluegrass artist, originally from southwest Virginia, now living in Nashville, who has been making his name as a mandolinist these last few years. He leads the progressive string band, Circus No. 9, where he also

On Sunday, August 15, 2021, Margaret Archer Bailey passed away peacefully at home at the age of 67.  Margaret Bailey is best known for her clear, crystalline vocals as the principal lead singer in the internationally recognized Cluster Pluckers, from the

As we approach the two decade anniversary of the attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, bluegrass singer and songwriter Caleb Bailey has released a song of remembrance from his current album, Poplar & Pine. Titled simply United Flight 93,

Tributes to Hall of Famer Tom T. Hall are pouring in, deservedly, from all corners of the music world after his death late last week, but among songwriters the loss is particularly stinging. It seems nearly every bluegrass composer I know,

Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo player Bill Emerson passed away on August 21 from complications of pneumonia. He died surrounded by his family at 83 years of age. Surely one of the most consequential banjo players of the 20th century, Bill

Dixie and Tom T. Hall - photo  by Terry Herd Bluegrass and country music legend Tom T. Hall passed away at his home in Franklin, TN on Friday, August 20th. He was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky in 1936. Known as "The

Clarence Randall Carrier, known to friends and family as Randy, passed away on August 12 at the age of 70. A Bristol, VA native, Randy had been involved in bluegrass music much of his life, playing mandolin in east Tennessee, and