• Still Hanging in There! ‚Äì NGAB Week 5

    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. Next Great American Band on Friday night held the

  • Cadillac Sky video on GAC

    Speaking of Cadillac Sky... Their first music video is set to debut tomorrow (11/18) on GAC TV. It's for the song, Born Lonesome, from their current Skaggs Family release, Blind Man Walking. C-Sky's Bryan Simpson said that working with director Roger Pistole

  • Cadillac Sky and Mountain View Arkansas

    3:00 p.m. - Updated with response from Cadillac Sky. This past weekend Mountain View Arkansas was thriving with bluegrass during the annual Fall Bluegrass Festival. Cadillac Sky was one of the featured bands, and controversy was the order of the day

  • Easiest Banjo Tunes for Children

    Just as we head into the frantic holiday shopping season, Mel Bay Publications has a new book/CD set designed as a companion purchase for parents who will put a new banjo under the tree for their young children. Easiest Banjo Tunes

  • Larry Keel Woodsongs video now up

    The appearance by Larry Keel & Natural Bridge on WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour from this past Monday - which Brance had mentioned earlier - can now be viewed as an online video. They perform several songs - including some new

  • Tim Hensley CD due in 2008

    Rural Rhythm Records has just released the first single from their upcoming Tim Hensley project, Long Monday. Bluegrass radio hosts and stations should be receiving their copy today (11/15), Tim's rendition of the Rodney Crowell song, Ridin' Out The Storm. Tim

  • Donna Ulisse back in the studio

    We hear from Hadley Music Group that Donna Ulisse was recently back in the studio with producer/guitarist Keith Sewell and Andy Leftwich on fiddle and mandolin laying down some basic tracks on new songs she had written. Ulisse discussed this in

  • Steep Canyon Rangers on WSM tonight

    We just got a note from Graham Sharpe, banjo picker with The Steep Canyon Rangers, to let everyone know that they will be joining Eddie Stubbs tonight for an interview on WSM in Nashville. They'll be on in the 9:00

  • New Punch Brothers dates posted

    A new batch of tour dates has been posted for Punch Brothers, Chris Thile's recently renamed band of musical brothers. They'll do a UK tour in January '08, after which they will be doing concert and club shows all over

  • Good News Reviewed

    Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this review of a CD he found to be especially worthy. Charlie Sizemore recently released Good News, his debut album for Rounder Records (0591) and the first of any kind for five years. For