• Welcome Willa Bartram!

    At this weekend’s DelFest festival in Cumberland, Maryland, Alan Bartram will surely have reason to celebrate. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to catch up with Bartram, bass player extraordinaire with the Del McCoury Band and the Traveling McCourys, and he had

  • Christmas single for Kenny & Amanda

    Kenny & Amanda Smith have released a new single, just in time for Christmas. It's When Love Was Born, written by Bernie Herms, Mark Schultz, and Stephanie Lewis, and previously recorded by Schultz. The Smiths cut their version recently with Austin Ward on

  • Welcome Ella Grey Bartram

    Alan Bartram, bass player for The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin' McCoury's, and his wife Kristina are celebrating yesterday's birth of their first child, Ella Grey Bartram. She was born at 3:39 p.m. (CDT) on April 25, weighing in at

  • Dierks Bentley is Fiddlin’ Around

    Dierks Bently has a new video from his heralded Up On The Ridge CD, which mixed some modern bluegrass in with his mainstream country sound. The new video is for the song Fiddlin' Around, the number he performed on the 2010