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After more than four decades as a sideman, bluegrass electric bass player and vocalist Curtis Vestal has released his second original song in three months. If you don't recognize the first name, you certainly know the last. Curtis is younger brother

Compass Records has announced a new album coming up with Special Consensus, their seventh with the label since 2011. It has been a good ride for the band with Compass, seeing not only critical praise for their recent recordings, but

Rhonda Vincent has announced that Adam Haynes has joined her touring band, The Rage, on fiddle. He steps into this role several months after Hunter Berry left the group late last year. Until making this switch, Adam had been a member

How do we know that bluegrass music has matured into a fully-formed, commercial musical genre? When artists who have achieved success in the wider pop music world, and have the option to go in any direction they prefer, decide to

Like so many bluegrass artists during the recent pandemic shutdowns, Jake Workman, hot shot guitar slinger with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, turned his attention to offering online instruction when work was scarce. Now that touring and live performance is back

Red Rover is the latest single to drop from Audie Blaylock, one from his upcoming project with 615 Hideaway Records. Like many of his recent releases, this one was written by long time bassist, Reed Jones, who says that it was

Bonfire Music has a second single for the South Carolina, husband and wife duo of Andrew Crawford & Brandi Colt. It's a dark, minor key number called Gamblers and Gypsies, which Crawford wrote with Adam Comstock. Andrew and Brandi sang their

Americana and alt-country hero Robbie Fulks has reached back to his bluegrass roots for his next album, appropriately titled, Bluegrass Vacation. To support his new songs, he has surrounded himself some of our music's brightest lights, with support from Sam

Mountain Home Music has a new single for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, continuing in their signature style of thoughtful, understated songs that exemplify what's best in contemporary bluegrass. The Price of Falling is another that Jones has written, about

RBR Entertainment has a new single this month for Nashville singer and songwriter, Billy Droze. Since turning from country music to his first love of bluegrass a few years ago, Billy has offered one of the freshest sounds in our music,