• Nu-Blu on Goin’ Across The Mountain

    Dennis Jones, host of Goin' Across The Mountain on WNCW, will be featuring music today (7/16) from the upcoming Pinecastle CD, The Blu-Disc from fellow North Carolinians, Nu-Blu. The album, due August 9, is based on the picking and singing of

  • Donna Ulisse travelogue – Day 4

    Donna Ulisse is providing us with a diary from her visit to Russia with her band, The Poor Mountain Boys. The trip is by invitation from the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. I just got back

  • Lost Highways & Treasured Memories

    Lost Highways & Treasured Memories is the title of the new CD from Tony Holt & The Wildwood Valley Boys. In true Holt tradition, it features stories of life among the regular folks, told and sung with a sincerity and passion

  • Video shoots for Cumberland River

    This past weekend, the guys from Cumberland River trekked to Harlan, Kentucky to shoot not one, but two music videos in the sweltering heat. Anthony Ladd of Kneelindesign served as director and videographer, with Penni McDaniel of Hope River Entertainment as

  • Donna Ulisse travelogue – Day 3

    Donna Ulisse is providing us with a diary from her visit to Russia with her band, The Poor Mountain Boys. The trip is by invitation from the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. Today (and I am not sure

  • Changes in Rambler’s Choice

    We had mentioned earlier in the week that Chris Davis was leaving Marty Raybon's band to work with Junior Sisk, and now have more details about that change. Junior's long-time singing partner, Tim Massey, is getting married and moving on, and

  • Chris Pandolfi introduces Banjo-Cam!

    Chris Pandolfi, erstwhile banjoist for The Infamous Stringdusters and budding videographer, has introduced a fun new feature to 'Dusters' live shows. In something he calls a Stringdusters video autograph, Chris will attach your Flip camera to his banjo headstock for a

  • Digital re-releases from Pinecastle

    New Pinecastle owner Lonnie Lassiter is doing much more than just resurrecting the label after health issues forced founder Tom Riggs to retire in February 2010. They are in the process of creating digital re-issues from the deep catalog of

  • Donna Ulisse travelogue – Day 2

    Donna Ulisse is providing us with a diary from her visit to Russia with her band, The Poor Mountain Boys. The trip is by invitation from the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. I am not sure how to word what