• Trial by fire for Jake Stargel

    Mountain Heart's new lead guitarist, Jake Stargel, had quite a first gig with the band yesterday. Right out of the gate, he was on stage with Tony Rice at Red, White & Bluegrass in North Carolina. Here's some video from yesterday's

  • New face with Mountain Heart

    Mountain Heart has announced that Jake Stargel has joined the band on guitar, filling the spot just vacated by Clay Jones. Jake is a fiery flatpicker from Georgia who at 19 years of age has already developed quite a reputation in

  • Tyler Grant – Up The Neck

    Tyler Grant is certainly well-regarded as a flatpicker. After all, he won the National Flatpicking Championship at Winfield in 2008, having won or placed in several others previously (Wayne Henderson, Rockygrass). But Grant doesn't like to be viewed primarily as a

  • Doc Watson bio published

    Blooming Twig Books has published Blind But Now I See, the first comprehensive biography of seminal flatpicking pioneer Doc Watson, written by Kent Gustafson. The book follows this acoustic music sensation from his time growing up blind in the rural south

  • Win a personalized copy of Tony Rice biography

    Bluegrass Today is teaming up with Word Of Mouth Press to give away five copies of the long-awaited Tony Rice biography, Still Inside, personally autographed and inscribed by the Rice Man himself. The book, written by Tim Stafford and Caroline Wright,

  • Shop video from Bourgeois Guitar

    Dana Bourgeois has posted a video in which he describes how he selects tops to use in his guitars. It was filmed at his shop in Lewiston, Maine located in an old mill that pre-dates the US Civil War. Bourgeois chooses