At last night's 19th annual Inspirational Country Music Awards in Nashville, The Roys were chosen as Inspirational Bluegrass Artist for 2013, an honor they have received for the past three years running. The brother/sister duet team play contemporary bluegrass with a
Jim & Valerie Gabehart have released a new single to radio in advance of their next CD. It's the title track, I Was Raised in a Railroad Town, written by fellow West Virginian Kevin Williamson of the Farmhands Quartet. Featured are regular band members Valerie
Gina Proulx was at the 2013 Festy in Virginia, and sent back a great many photos from both the stage and the campground. This first gallery captures a pair of performances from Joy Kills Sorrow.
David Morris caught up with Eric Gibson, one half of the Gibson Brothers, as IBMA week in Raleigh was winding down last month. They talked about songwriting and a loose concept for the brothers' next album. Eric also shared some
This is the seventh in a fun new series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so well known, about some of their interests as well as about the music that they love. Amanda Smith started singing
The City of Shelby, NC has given a lot to the rest of the US. A handful of NASCAR drivers, NFL and MLB players, a notorious bank robber and a sitting US Senator all hail from this town of just
Bluegrass Valley Records has released a music video for Never Give The Devil A Ride from their new Brad Davis album, Walk On Faith. Davis wrote the song with Paula Breedlove The video was shot near Lewisburg, TN, produced by John Mathis Jr., Susie Aboulhosn,
Each year since 1991, new members have been added to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Since the inaugural class of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, and Earl Scruggs, numerous other bluegrass and traditional music greats have been honored for
Here's a late bluegrass birth announcement from earlier this summer. Hadley Gayle Raines was born on August 22 to Jayd and Selena Raines. We had posted back in the Spring about Jayd leaving Marty Raybon's band and taking a job as a
We heard this afternoon from Jeremy Abshire, now former fiddler with The Grascals, announcing his departure from the group. "Friends, as some of you may or may not know, after six years with The Grascals, a handful of recordings together, and
