• Mountain Soul CD coming soon

    Mountain Soul is a new young band based in Knoxville, TN. It's members have pretty solid resumes, showing time spent with The Grasshoppers, Lovell Sisters, Larkin Poe, Valerie Smith, Dixie Bee-Liners, Robinella and The Watkins Family. Daniel Kimbo plays bass, Jonathan

  • Grascals are Mayberry bound

    The Grascals have been out of late in support of their current album, The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin, which finds them teamed up with major country artists like Dolly Parton, Brad Paisely and Dierks Bentley.

  • Chris Thile and Michael Daves

    Chris Thile has engendered minor controversy in the bluegrass community since he began to veer off the main road with Nickel Creek in 2002. Rightly celebrated as an enfant terrible in the '90s, Thile's unpredictable musical adventures often left his

  • Milk Drive – The Road From Home

    Adventurous acoustic/alt-grassers Milk Drive are set to release The Road From Home, their first studio album, on April 5. This young Austin-based band includes Noah Jeffries on guitar, Dennis Ludiker on mandolin, Brian Beken on fiddle/vocals, and Matt Medford on bass.

  • Banjo extravaganza in Galax

    Galax, VA has a long history in the development and preservation of bluegrass and old time music. The annual Old Fiddlers Convention held there each year since 1936 draws thousands every year to jam, socialize and compete for the coveted

  • Railroad Earth says howdy

    Jam band favorites Railroad Earth have just released a video bio in advance of their Spring tour, which is currently in the US Midwest. Tim Carbone and Andrew Altman talk a bit on camera about who they are, and all like

  • VW Boys Retroactive video

    We posted last week about Retroactive, the debut CD from The VW Boys, released earlier this week. The trio from East Tennesee has also created a video to introduce themselves to new fans, and share a few of the songs included

  • Songwriting analysis from Mark Simos

    In the first part of our interview with Sierra Hull earlier this month, she discussed her current studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. One instructor she mentioned was Mark Simos, with whom she is studying lyric writing

  • Scholarship opportunity at ResoSummit

    ResoSummit, Rob Ickes' annual workshop weekend for resonator guitarists is scheduled this year for November 10-13. As always, there are 3 days of instruction and performances by some of the top slide artists in Nashville and beyond. This year, Rob and

  • It’s here – The Speed Of Bluegrass

    Today's the day! Our brand spanking new Bluegrass Blog theme song, The Speed Of Bluegrass, is now available as a digital single from iTunes or Amazon.com. We commissioned Jim VanCleve last year to compose a tune that would exemplify what we