Music

The last of five free audio tracks from Lonesome River Band is available for download on the band's web site. Sammy Shelor decided to put these full length tracks up on the site in February of this year as a

The April 2006 issue of Banjo NewsLetter has been mailed, and most subscribers should have it in the next few days if they haven't seen it already. Editor Donald Nitchie tells us that this issue contains Greg Cahill's interview with

We mentioned a few weeks ago that The Gibson Brothers' music video for I Got A Woman had been released, and was showing on CMT.com. It has now also been made available on YouTube - great news for Mac computer

In addition to the Pickin' On Kenny Rogers CD we mentioned yesterday, CMH released two compilation projects on April 4. Both feature reissued tracks that had appeared previously on CMH projects, and include some of the most prominent and heralded

Is this a Seinfeld spinoff or a bluegrass CD? The title of the next Pinecastle release from Nothin' Fancy will carry the title of 7. The numerical reference was chosen by the label since this will be Nothin' Fancy's seventh project

Our friends at BluegrassBooksOnline.com asked us to mention that the most recent free lesson on the site is an arrangement of Jesse McReynolds' Dixie Hoedown. Printed music and MP3 files are available as free downloads for both mandolin and guitar,

The latest in CMH Records' popular Pickin' On series is out today. Pickin' On Kenny Rogers - The Bluegrass Tribute, as its title suggests, offers instrumental bluegrass arrangements of 12 Rogers hits, including The Gambler, Lucille, Ruby Don't Take Your

We mentioned last week that Claire Lynch's CD, New Day, was due for release on Rounder on March 28. We also mentioned at that time that no audio samples were yet available online. They are now up on the Rounder web

Before their days of Grammy-nominated releases for Rounder, Blue Highway released a trio of critically-acclaimed recordings for Rebel Records in the mid-to-late 1990s. Tim Stafford has related how the band was formed after his departure from Alison Krauss & Union

We had posted several weeks ago about an upcoming Skaggs Family Records project called Celebration Of Life, a two CD set recorded live at the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival to benefit the St. Jude Children"s Research Hospital in Memphis,