Red House Records is pleased to announce the May 7 US release of These Wilder Things, the new solo album from Juno-Award winning songwriter Ruth Moody. A founding member of the Billboard-charting folk super-group The Wailin’ Jennys, Moody is an artist
Rounder Records has released Bored of the Raging, a three song digital EP from their upcoming project with The Deadly Gentlemen. These Gentlemen serve as the creative outlet for Boston-based banjo player Greg Liszt, who is also a member of Crooked
Good news from fiddle legend, Tex Logan. After having been hospitalized late last week in hypertensive crisis, Tex has been released into a rehab facility for what is expected to be a short stay for occupational and physical therapy before returning
Mipso is a young string band who met during their time as students at the University of North Carolina in 2010. They continue to perform and record in the Triangle area, with their own original style of contemporary folk and bluegrass
We posted on Monday that Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver had brought Dustin Pyrtle on board to sing and play guitar. Yesterday Judith Burnette, who hosts the Blue Ridge Backroads show on WBRF radio, sent along these photos of Dustin's first
Kentucky-based Newtown has just signed with Crossroads Music's Pisgah Ridge Records. The band, formerly billed as Kati Penn & Newtown, features Kati Penn-Williams on fiddle, along with her husband Jr. Williams on banjo, Terry Poirier on bass, C.J. Cain on
Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers are proud to announce the single release of Some Kind Of War from their highly successful project They're Playing My Song on Rebel Records. Written just over a year ago by Country Music Hall Of
In his comment on last week’s column about stage communication, Dick Bowden requested that I write a follow-up article on band members who don’t know the number system. I don’t as a rule answer this kind of request, unless it’s
Mountain Fever Records has announced the April 9 release of Hammertowne’s self-titled debut album. Hammertowne is a five man group that originates in the “cradle of bluegrass music” in the eastern Kentucky foothills. While relatively new as a unit, this is
Mark Meatto's brilliant documentary, How To Grow A Band, will soon be finding its way to your favorite digital device and, hopefully, your DVD and BluRay player. The film follows the Punch Brothers' initial 2008 tour in support of Chris Thile's The Blind
