Though a native Canadian, bluegrass singer, songwriter, and fiddler Mike Mitchell has long made the southwestern Virginia community of Floyd his home. He's raised his family there, where he operates a music school for students of both classical and Appalachian
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Track Premiere: True Life Blues from Gina Furtado
The Gina Furtado Project is reaching all the way back to the beginnings of bluegrass with their new single, True Life Blues, one written by Bill Monroe, which he cut in 1945. Bluegrass fans know Gina from her stint on banjo
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Way Too Pretty drops for Buster Sledge
Buster Sledge isn't your typical bluegrass group by any measure. Based in Oslo, they are made up of three Norwegians and a Californian who describe their sound as acoustic Melancholicana Sadgrasss. It can't be all that bad, can it fellas? Their
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I’m A Ramblin’ Man from Larry Stephenson Band
For the second single from his upcoming Cast A Lonesome Shadow album, Larry Stephenson has picked a Waylon jennings classic, I'm A Ramblin' Man. "But wait," you may be thinking... "Waylon sang with a deep baritone voice," and you're be
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Bluegrass Country Soul makes film audio tracks available for sale
The producers of the iconic film, Bluegrass Country Soul, filmed in 1971 at Carlton Haney's Camp Springs Festival, have teamed with Bluegrass Music TV and Man-Do-Lin Productions to bring the feature length movie, and its classic performances, to bluegrass lovers
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Pay Your Dues from Songs From The Road Band
As Songs From The Road Band sees their latest album, Pay Your Dues, hit the street today, the band is offering our readers a listen to the title track here at Bluegrass Today. This project may be the most fully-realized recording
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Near Mrs. drops for Lonesome River Band
Lonesome River Band has a new single this week, the first since the release of their popular Hey Day album for Mountain Home Music last year. This one reaches back 30 years to a song written by Karl Hasten and Steve
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You’ll Never Find Another So True from Fast Track
OK traditional bluegrass lovers... this one is for you. The latest single from Fast Track's Heartache and Trouble album is out, their take on the Boys From Indiana classic, You'll Never Find Another So True. Written by Aubrey Holt, the Boys
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Too Lonely, Way Too Long from Rick Faris with Del McCoury
Dark Shadow Recordings has released a second single from their upcoming album for Rick Faris, Uncommon Sky, expected in June. It's a new song he's written called Too Lonely, Way Too Long, which is about as lonely as anyone can ever
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Pay Attention from Newtime Stringband
Newtime Stringband, which is essentially old time and bluegrass musician Chris Mullins and whomever he chooses to collaborate with, has a new single on offer from the next Newtime album. It's an instrumental tune he has written called Pay Attention. Chris