Before we rang in the new year, the bluegrass community received some sad news. Dobro innovator, Mike Auldridge, lost his battle with cancer on December 29. Auldridge transformed the resophonic guitar. He took a rousing, unsophisticated, "good time" instrument, and
The Boxcars, two-time and reigning IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year, have recently completed recording for their next project, due this Spring from Mountain Home. The band's even more lavishly award-winning mandolinist, Adam Steffey, suggests that if you enjoyed their first
All aboooaaaard! All aboard, and bring your…banjos? About 2000 bluegrass fans, artists and press are taking to the high seas of the Atlantic today, February 1, on Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Sky, for the maiden voyage of Mountain Song at
Here's your Bluegrass Weather Report for the big SPBGMA weekend in Nashville. There's snow on the ground this morning, and lots of music in the air.
When most bluegrass fans think of husband and wife teams, the names Kenny and Amanda Smith or Darin and Brooke Aldridge spring to mind. However, another couple is quickly making a name for themselves in the bluegrass world, as leaders
A pair of East Tennessee grassers, Wendy Crowe and Jonathan Maness, have joined forces in a new group called WestWend. The two met by chance at a radio show in 2011, just as Wendy was set to start work on a debut recording.
Attention songwriters... If you would like to have one of your songs considered for the 2013 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest, you'll need to get your application in by February 19. The competition is open to any songwriter whose income in
The Rambling Rooks, the new special project band featuring Ronnie Bowman, Don Rigsby and Kenny Smith, have a free download offer for bluegrass lovers. It's a track from their upcoming album, a Ronnie Bowman and Shawn Camp song called Looking For
Rhonda Vincent is using the occasion of this week's SPBGMA convention in Nashville to release a new single from her next album. The song is a Larry Cordle/Lionel Delmore song, I'd Rather Hear I Don't Love You (Than Nothing At All),
Sitting here in my Tennessee home tonight, with an ice storm having passed through the area today and being on our 3rd consecutive week of snow events that included “Thunder Snow” last week, the mind wanders to happier times when
