• The Grascals are cooking with their new CD

    The Grascals' new CD isn't about food, it's about Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin. Nonetheless, The Grascals seem to be finding themselves around food a lot. The CD itself is released on the Grascal's new label BluGrascal Records, in association

  • Next Blue Highway CD almost done

    Good news for Blue Highway fans. Tim Stafford tells us that a new album won't be long in coming. "The band has finished tracking all but a few vocal parts for its new project, titled Sounds of Home. We recorded again

  • Phil Leadbetter update

    We caught up yesterday with Phil Leadbetter, resonator guitarist with The Whites, and reso raconteur at large. He has spent quite a career in bluegrass, including lengthy stints sliding around with JD Crowe & the New South, Wildfire, and Grasstowne. Phil

  • Peasall Sisters all grown up

    The Peasall Sisters were thrust into the spotlight when they contributed to the soundtrack for the popular movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, providing the singing voices of George Clooney's daughters, the Wharvey Girls, in 2000. That was 10 years

  • Cherryholmes bites the dust

    Cherryholmes, who we have watched grow from a cute family band to top-level bluegrass entertainers in the past ten years, has announced that they are hanging it up this Spring. In an announcement cross-posted this afternoon on the Cherryholmes and Skaggs

  • Crowdsourcing appeal from Travers Chandler

    We've posted before about appeals from artists to generate start-up capital, recording, or travel costs directly from their fans. It's so popular across all genres of creative activity that it has its own buzzword: crowdsourcing. Not only that, a number of

  • Video preview of Blame It On The Bluegrass

    Valerie Smith and her producer, fiddler and vocalist Beck Buller take us for a visit through the facilities of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, where they recorded the tracks for their next two albums, Blame It On The Bluegrass. Next two

  • Free download from Steve Martin

    Last week we reported about the impending release of a new bluegrass CD by Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers. Martin has since made the title track available as a free download. The track is titled Rare Bird Alert. It's

  • Alan Bibey checks in

    We had a chance yesterday to catch up with Alan Bibey, one half of the brain trust (with Steve Gulley) behind Grasstowne. Al tells us that the first airing of the band's appearance on Reno's Old Time Music Festival is set

  • Infamous Stringdusters Ski Tour 2011

    The Infamous Stringdusters have begun a lengthy tour of the west coast and upper midwest, scheduled to run though the month of January and much of February as well. They have dubbed this jaunt the Ski Tour, the second time