Darrell Webb

Rural Rhythm has released a first single from Breaking Down The Barriers, the upcoming album from The Darrell Webb Band, due to hit August 14. The single is She's Outta Here, written by Webb and Jeff Barbra. It's a driving bluegrass

Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter is due July 31 from Ray Edwards, on Rural Rhythm's new Sage Brush Music imprint. Sage Brush was formed specifically to showcase talented songwriters in bluegrass, and got its unofficial launch with Look To The Light: Songs

When I was learning to play banjo in the mid-1970's, one of the first albums I bought was the two-album live recording from the Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom festival, which became one of my favorites and a great source of

Darrell Webb has posted a video from backstage at Bean Blossom, where he and his band performed over the past weekend. In this report, Darrell and Carl White, fill-in Darrell Webb Band bass player and notorious Quicksilver drummer, talk about the

Laura Tate Ridge has sent along a large gallery of photos she took at last weekend's Lil John Mountain Music Festival in Snow Camp, NC.

When the Passamano family moved from their homes in southern California to Nashville to relocate Rural Rhythm Records last year, they gave two specific reasons. One, and most obviously, was to be closer to the artists whose music they release,

If you don't recognize the name Ray Edwards, you probably will his music. His song Hard Rock Mountain Prison ('Til I Die) was a hit for IIIrd Tyme Out, as was Over In The Promised Land for Lou Reid & Carolina. Ray

Darrell Webb recently re-signed with Rural Rhythm for the release of his second project with The Darrell Webb Band. Produced by Jim Van Cleve, much of the work on the record has been completed, and it is on track for

Another benefit concert has been scheduled in Knoxville for Phil Leadbetter, who continues to undergo treatment for a very stubborn cancer that has been try resistant to common therapies. Phil has dedicated his life to bluegrass music, working in turn

Side projects are becoming more and more common in the bluegrass world. Sometimes it's a solo project from a member of an established band; other times it's an all-star effort involving a bevy of popular artists. But sometimes it's an