• Another Weary Mile from Kristy Cox

    Aussie bluegrass singer Kristy Cox has released a new music video for Another Weary Mile, the opening track on her latest album, Part Of Me.   Part Of Me is available now from Pisgah Ridge Records, on Kristy's web site, and wherever bluegrass

  • Jeff White at The Station Inn

    This past weekend found bluegrass artist Jeff White at Nashville's Station Inn, debuting the music from his new solo project, Right Beside You. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper served as his band, with Jeff's Earls Of Leicester bandmate Charlie Cushman on banjo. We

  • What Goes Up – Deer Creek Boys

    The Deer Creek Boys may appear to be 2016's overnight success story, based on the likely success of their Mountain Fever debut project, What Goes Up, but this energetic and youthful group has been together now going on 18 years.

  • Dale Ann Bradley in Akron, NY

    I have long believed that Facebook should be fun and useful. It turned out to be both last week. We were on a trip to eastern New York when my wife saw a post from Barry Crabtree that he would be

  • The dreaded gender switch in song lyrics

    Last week, I experimented with changing lyrics to some of our time-honored murder ballads, and most agreed with me that the results were less-than ideal, even though some lives were saved in the process. Some would even suggest that it’s never

  • Bobby Osborne to be feted at ETSU

    The Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University will be honoring the one and only Bobby Osborne this Saturday (4/23) at a concert to be held at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol,

  • Free music from Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

    Wisconsin's Horseshoes & Hand Grenades are offering a free download of their Middle Western CD this week. The "name your price" offer will be available until Friday, allowing for free downloads during this time. Of course, one is free to

  • Introducing The Back Room 

    At a time when we, rightly, acknowledge the multi-decade anniversaries of venues, such as Nashville’s Station Inn, The Ark (Ann Arbor), the Ash Grove (Los Angeles), and The Birchmere (Alexandria), around the States, it is important to note new music