• Audie Blaylock and his Mustang

    Audie Blaylock was featured on the front page of the Auburn, IN Evening Star this past Friday (6/20) - but the article had nothing to do with his heralded career in bluegrass music. It turns out that Audie is not just

  • DLQ – coast to coast

    We just received a note from Josh Swift, resonator guitarist with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. He sent along a mini-travelogue report which will give Doyle's many fans a look inside a road trip with Quicksilver. Josh's tale starts earlier this month... "We departed

  • Rural Rhythm to Radio

    Rural Rhythm Records is committed to tradition and progress simultaneously. In an effort to promote all the good bluegrass recordings they are putting out these days, the label has just started their own Bluegrass Radio service. They are calling it

  • Grascals Keep On Walkin’ & Win a Guitar

    We've already told you about the upcoming release of Keep On Walkin' by the Grascals. The release date is July 15, 2008. The has now teamed up with Rounder Records and Takamine Guitars to bring you a special offer. If you

  • Dan Band celebrates on The Opry

    Dan Tyminski will celebrate today's (6/17) release of Wheels, his new Rounder CD, with an appearance on the Tuesday Opry in Nashville. Their set will be during the show's first segment, between 8:00-8:30 p.m. (EDT). The Tuesday Opry broadcast is

  • Hard Road – Only So Fast

    We just received a copy of the new CD from Steve Smith and Hard Road, Only So Fast. I've known Steve since we were both young students of bluegrass music in eastern Virginia back in the late 1970s, and have followed

  • Mountain Roads and Whitetop Mountain

    Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee continues its recruitment drive with the addition to the label's roster of The Whitetop Mountain Band from Whitetop, Virginia. The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band from an area featuring the highest mountains of

  • Starstruck Grascals?

    OK... now we know why The Grascals spent so much time at the CMA Music Festival last week. While they were doing interviews at the Music Row Live! radio remotes event, they met up with pop, TV and soon-to-be country star

  • Win big with Claire Lynch

    We posted back in April about Claire Lynch's fan contest to win an iPod Shuffle pre-loaded with Claire's six Rounder releases. The premise of the contest was simple, but far from easy - tell your life story in only six words. A

  • New Grascals on vinyl

    Rounder Records has announced that Keep On Walkin', the new project from The Grascals, will be released on both compact disc and long playing vinyl. Both versions are due for release on July 15. It's the ultimate Grascals audiophile experience! The guys also