• 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

  • CA Guitars closes up shop

    Composite Acoustics, commonly known as CA Guitars, has closed its doors. The Louisiana-based company that manufactured steel-string acoustic guitars made from a carbon fiber material had found adherents among both hobby and professional pickers worldwide, including Blue Highway guitarist Tim Stafford.

  • Stolen Instrument Alert: lefty quartet

    We have been made aware of the theft of a number of left-handed instruments that may show up within the bluegrass community. In what may have come as an unpleasant surprise to the thief, all of the instruments taken were left-handed

  • Free guitar tuner app from Gibson

    Gibson Guitars has released a free iPhone app that, while visually targeted at electric guitarists, contains a number of valuable features for any six stringer. Called appropriately enough, The Gibson Guitar App, it features a number of different tuners. There is

  • Gryphon founder interviewed in Collectors Weekly

    Richard Johnston, co-founder of the venerable Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA, was recently interviewed by The Collectors Weekly web site. Johnston has earned a reputation as a luthier, and particularly as an historian and appraiser of vintage acoustic instruments.

  • Matt Wingate to Claire Lynch

    Claire Lynch has announced that Matt Wingate is her new guitar player. He steps into the void left when Claire's long-time guitar man Jim Hurst stepped aside, leaving young Mr. Wingate with some extra large shoes to fill. But based on

  • Still Inside – The Tony Rice Story

    The bluegrass and acoustic guitar world has been buzzing this past two years, awaiting the publication of Still Inside - The Tony Rice Story. This authorized biography of the legendary guitarist and vocalist, written by Tim Stafford and Caroline Wright, has