Buddy Melton, fiddler, vocalist, and founding member of perennial bluegrass headliners Balsam Range, has announced his departure from the group. Since the band's founding in 2007 by five friends living in Haywood County, NC - just west of Asheville - Melton
A whole lot of us picked up new hobbies or pastimes during the pandemic shutdowns starting in 2020. Everyone was stuck at home, and we weren't allowed to visit our favorite haunts. Some folks learned to cook, or garden, while
John Holder at a Balsam Range show - photo © Mike Duncan After 10 years, John Holder is stepping down as full time sound man for Balsam Range. "After much deliberation and prayer, I made a decision to turn in my notice
Once again, we have a list off the most played bluegrass songs of the previous year, based on reporting to our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart during the 52 weeks of 2023. Congratulations to everyone who made the cut! ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Blue Highway Lonesome State
Balsam Range is one of a select few bluegrass bands that has maintained consistency within their personnel. That, of course, changed in late 2022 with the departure of founding member, Darren Nicholson. Despite this new chapter in the group's journey,
Balsam Range has just released their tenth album with Mountain Home Music, Kinetic Tone, and with it, a new single called Evergreen. This one comes from the writing team of Michael Hearne, Susan Gibson, and Monica Smart, and is sung by
Balsam Range also has a new single this week from Mountain Home Music, a gutty, medium tempo grasser called We'll All Drink Money, written by Adam Louis Wright, who also contributed the band's previous release, What The Years Do. The song
Mountain Home Music has a new single this week from their upcoming project with Balsam Range, a song which offers a clever twist on the good old heartbreak story. Snake Charmer comes from Milan Miller and Beth Husband, who contributed a
Mountain Home Music has released a new single from Balsam Range that is loaded with firsts. What The Years Do is the band's first single in over a year, the first from their next album, and the first with a lineup
Balsam Range has been among the very few bluegrass acts to spend serious time as a headlining act with no changes in personnel over the past two decades. But that reign came to an end when mandolinist and vocalist Darren
