• Motivational Speakeasy – Jordan Tice

    On first hearing, Jordan Tice would appear to be an artist that's prone to bask in simplicity. After all, the 13 songs on his new album Motivational Speakeasy rely solely on unaccompanied songs played on acoustic guitar, sometime with vocals,

  • Track Premiere: Ready to Go from Jordan Tice

    Guitarist Jordan Tice also has a new album releasing this week, Motivational Speakeasy, which comes as something of a departure from his earlier efforts. Growing up in a Maryland bluegrass family, his earliest training was as a grasser, and his

  • Gallagher Guitar Company lives on with new ownership

    Since 1965, the Gallagher Guitar Co. has been building high quality, handmade acoustic guitars in Tennessee. Treasured by flatpickers and finger style guitarists alike, these fine instruments attained global recognition when the great Doc Watson acquired one of their G-50

  • Panhandle Country from David Grier Band

    Longtime fans of David Grier have learned never to expect anything in particular from his new projects, other than quality music, creatively played. The Nashville guitar wizard has graced us over the years with both instrumental and vocal bluegrass, with

  • Watch It Fall video from Billy Strings

    Rounder Records has released a new music video from Billy Strings, featuring one of the songs from his current album, Home. Billy has a reputation as the crazed flatpicker, based on his frenetic and highly energized live performances, where he mimics

  • Welcome Kent Faris!

    It's been a big few months for Rick Faris, guitarist and vocalist with Special Consensus. He saw his own solo project release on Dark Shadow Recording, and a new album from Special C on Compass, with some chart actions for