Kipper Stitt and Jerry Butler are longtime friends, and bluegrass buddies. They worked together some years ago as members of Pine Mountain Railroad, a Knoxville-based band that found success in bluegrass after acquiring a sponsorship with Tennessee Pride sausage. The band eventually drifted
Ernie and Debi Evans continue their whirlwind pace in the Florida bluegrass community. Thursday brought an open mic night to the Roscoe Canady Memorial Bluegrass Festival in Waldo, FL. The audience enjoyed listening to music provided by local bands and
Another bluegrass baby! Lee Chapman, bass player with Jerry Butler & the Blu-Jays, and his wife Shasta, are celebrating the birth of a daughter. Kaley Erin Chapman was born on December 10 at 3:26 p.m. in Mooresville, NC. She came in at 6 lbs,
This past weekend Terry and Jan Lease hosted the 19th edition of the Great Northern Indoor Bluegrass Music Festival. Friday brought Newtown, Larry Sparks, Special C, Kody Norris, and a relatively new band from Minnesota, Copper Creek. Saturday featured Donna Ulisse, The
Coming March 10 is One Day, a new all-Gospel project from Jerry Butler and The Blu-J's. The album is a mix of new and classic material, some of it suggested by fans who Jerry says have been after him for some time
Jerry Butler & the Blu-J's were back in the studio over the weekend, getting started on an all-Gospel project slated for a late September release. Butler is on guitar and lead vocals, with Derek Vaden on banjo and finger-style guitar, Lee
This post is a contribution from Amanda Webb, who will be a regular correspondent when Bluegrass Today goes live - soon, I promise! What do you get when you combine one man’s love for music, a desire to meet a need,
Jerry Butler & the Blu J's have much to celebrate this week. Their new CD, Stranger In My Own Hometown, is out on Blue Circle Records. This is the first release Butler with his band, but not his first recording. He
Jerry Butler & The Blu-J's had a big announcement last night. Nashville banjo monster Charlie Cushman has joined the band, and will begin touring with them right away. Cushman has been widely-regarded as a "banjo player's banjo player," even while his
Well, here are a couple more band changes to announce at year's end. Mandolinist Bobby Clark is leaving the Williams & Clark Expedition to work with Jerry Butler & The Blu-J's. Clark has toiled in the bluegrass salt mines for for
