Music

You might not expect the 7-time IBMA Vocal Group of the Year to put out a collection that includes covers of songs from everybody from John Denver to The Platters, but that’s just exactly what Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme

Bass player Bob Schacht passed away at his home in Flagstaff on December 30, 2012. He was 69 years old. Born September 18, 1943, in Racine, Wisconsin, Robert Marshall Schacht was the second of five children. His was a musical family

Marty Raybon also has a new single this week, That Janie Baker, a song he wrote with John Fountain. It will be included on his next Rural Rhythm album, The Back Forty, an all-bluegrass project due for a March release. Marty

Silence Or Tears was composed by a veteran of the North Carolina bluegrass scene, mandolin player Jerry Stuart, and the highly-esteemed bass player Tom Gray, of Country Gentlemen fame. However, its origins go back two centuries to the life-time of British

Choosing a name for a new band is often the most trying aspect of getting one up and going. Unless you plan on using the name of the band leader (if there is one) as the moniker, getting several strong-willed

Oops... here's one of David Morris' Songwriter to Songwriter interviews we recorded last Fall at World of Bluegrass, that hadn't yet been posted. This one finds David in discussion with Jesse Langlais from Town Mountain.  

Just about a year ago, Dale Pyatt recorded a song he wrote with Charlie Hall, celebrating the illustrious career of Secretariat, perhaps the most celebrated race horse in the 20th century. It was initially available only through The Secretariat Foundation,

Mark Newton and Steve Thomas are the latest artists to be signed by Pinecastle Records, it has been announced today. A new duo project, Reborn, is scheduled for an April 9 release. Both of these fine musicians have enjoyed a long

Today (1/8/13) marks the season premiere of Justified, one of the few television dramas I follow week to week. I discovered the show two years ago quite by chance, when an episode began after something else I had on. In

We posted last summer about plans by Ken Scoggins & Millers Creek to finish a new Gospel album they expect to release on Old Homestead Records this year. Ken shared with us recently that after getting started at Tom T. Hall's studio