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Tim Carter, the banjo pickin' half of The Carter Brothers, is currently on tour with an all star band in support of his Bang Bang album. Tim May is on guitar, Barbara Lamb on fiddle, Matt Flinner on mandolin and Adam

Opening disclaimer: I've known Dan Miller for the past 20 years, ever since he moved east from California to southwest Virginia in 1998. Dan had uprooted his young family and bought a home in the thriving metropolis of Hiawassee, VA to

We've written before about the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation and their instrument lending program for young pickers, Play It Forward. Bluegrass students aged 8-16 can have access to quality banjos, fiddles, mandolins, or guitars for renewable one year loans at no

We all know about bluegrass, and have become accustomed more recently to jamgrass. But what about trashgrass? Well that's what Cincinnati's Rumpke Mountain Boys call their take on the music, and it served as the title of their debut CD in 2012.

The Back Forty, so called to mark Marty Raybon’s 40th anniversary in the music business, is his latest release on the Rural Rhythm label (RR 1111). It consists of 10 songs, half of which Raybon helped to write and each

Compass Records has put together a video sneak-peek at Love Has Wheels, their upcoming album for The Bankesters. It gives a taste of three tracks from the CD, plus interviews with the various members of the band.   They're in the middle

Special project bands are sprouting all around bluegrass this year. The Masters of Bluegrass have been struttin' it old school with Bobby Osborne, Del McCoury, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury at festivals, and Sideline, featuring members of Mountain

Here is Shannon Turner's final set of photos from RockyGrass 2013.  

Music City Roots, Nashville's sole live weekly music television venue, is moving from your computer screens to your TVs. After months of negotiations, it was announced this morning that the program, which features the best of the Nashville new music scene,

Numerous bluegrass artists performing today got their start in the late 1980s and '90s, helping to solidify the country-tinged mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass that is so popular these days. One of these artists is Jimmy Bowen, who, after