Music

The Bluegrass Brothers have become favorites wherever super hard-driving traditional bluegrass music is in fashion. The Virginia band has been performing together since 1989, and despite numerous personnel changes over the years, the one constant was always Victor Dowdy on

John Cowan has quite a history in and around bluegrass music. He first burst onto the scene in 1974 as the bass player with Newgrass Revival, with whom he toured and recorded until 1990. His soaring vocals became as much

Rounder Records has announced that an extra bonus track from Willie Nelson's new Americana release, Country Music, will be bundled with all downloads in iTunes. Country Music was released this week (4/20) and showcases the legendary performer in a rootsy, acoustic

Skaggs Family Records is offering a free track download from the upcoming Cherryholmes CD, Cherryholmes IV Common Threads. The track is Live It, the first single from the new album, featuring the plaintive voice of Molly Cherryholmes, the youngest of

Actually a much older one... Banjoist Jake Schepps is in the studio recording his stringband arrangements of 20th century composer Bela Bartok's music. He will include pieces from the Mikrokosmos, Music for Children, Romanian Folk Dance #1, and 6 of the

Billboard is reporting that Steve Martin will be heading back into the studio in August to record a follow-up to The Crow, using The Steep Canyon Rangers as his accompanists. Martin and the Rangers are touring together this month in

Continuing in their established trend of terse, esoteric and slightly archaic references for album titles, Punch Brothers have announced that their new CD, Antifogmatic, will be released June 15 on Nonesuch Records. And also continuing in the newly-established trend, they are

Compass Records has also announced that the next CD from Special Consensus, simply titled 35, will be released on May 25. The title comes from the astounding fact that Greg Cahill is celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the band. Has

Compass Records takes another step towards the bluegrass market with their signing of Peter Rowan yesterday (4/19). Over the past two years, they have released albums from Dale Ann Bradley, The Gibson Brothers, Bearfoot, and the John Hartford String Band,

Not long ago we posted a couple videos of Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen as they travelled to Nashville and worked on a new recording project. The recording is now finished, mixed, and mastered. Frank kindly sent along a couple