• New face with Mountain Heart

    Mountain Heart has announced that Jake Stargel has joined the band on guitar, filling the spot just vacated by Clay Jones. Jake is a fiery flatpicker from Georgia who at 19 years of age has already developed quite a reputation in

  • Joe Diffie – Homecoming

    Back in the late summer of 2008, we first shared news about country crooner Joe Diffie making a return to bluegrass music, from whence he came before Nashville made him a star in the 1990s. Rounder signed him to a

  • ACM nominations go to several grassers

    Awards season has begun for the the Academy of Country Music. In addition to the nominations announced on Tuesday for all the glittery pop stars, a list of "lesser lights" was quietly passed out. This includes musicians, producers, engineers, radio hosts,

  • Bluegrass at the Grammies

    Nominations were announced yesterday (12/2) for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. Omitted from the breathless news coverage of all the shiny pop stars was the real news that matters to readers of Bluegrass Today. Nominees for Best Bluegrass Album (Vocal or Instrumental): Could

  • Blue Ridge All Stars in Asheville

    The Blue Ridge Parkway is a venerable institution in our part of the world. This scenic drive runs 469 miles, from Shenandoah National Park (south of Charlottesville, VA) to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina (southwest of

  • Bryan Sutton Almost Live out today

    Almost Live, the latest CD from flatpicker supreme Bryan Sutton, is out today (7/14) on Sugar Hill Records. It is a set of ten songs and tunes featuring Bryan in the studio with many of the artists with whom he has

  • Bryan Sutton – Almost Live

    Bryan Sutton is on everyone's short list of top flatpick guitarists, something that has made him Nashville's #1 call for recording and short term tour work. This has given him a stable career and a fairly normal home life, by

  • Sugar Hill release schedule

    Sugar Hill Records has announced a number of new albums set for release during the spring and summer of 2009. Already this year, they have a solo project from The Infamous Stringdusters' Jeremy Garrett, I Am A Stranger, which hit on

  • Grassers garner ACM nods

    When the complete list of nominees for the 2009 Academy Of Country Music Awards were announced yesterday (2/11), a number of bluegrass pickers showed up on the list. No... not that list (the one with all the Nashville glitterati in their

  • Ronnie McCoury with Dierks Bentley

    Big-time country artist Dierks Bentley's bluegrass roots have been chronicled a number of times on The Bluegras Blog, as has his ongoing support of bluegrass artists and songwriters. His new CD, Feel That Fire, will be released on February 3, and