In honor of this week's World of Bluegrass convention, hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Association in Raleigh, NC, Mountain Home Music Company is released a number of new singles from their top bluegrass artists. And we are delighted to
John Bowman
John Bowman auctioning a mandolin for Harvey relief
The hard hitting wind and rain of hurricane Harvey was devastating throughout many areas of Texas and Louisiana along the shoreline of the Southern United States. Since that time many organizations, like the Red Cross, have stepped up to help
Beautiful Ashes – John Bowman
John Bowman has performed with a who’s who of bluegrass groups over the past several decades, from his beginnings with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver in the early 1990s to his most recent tenure as a founding member of The Boxcars.
John Bowman exits The Boxcars
John Bowman, one of the five founding members of bluegrass supergroup The Boxcars, has announced that he is leaving the band. Over the past few years, Bowman has been increasingly focusing his energy towards preaching and singing in churches, often
New John Bowman CD in June
John Bowman has been a bluegrass guy most of his life, and because of his particular talents as a singer and multi-instrumentalist, we's been able to ply his trade at the highest levels of our music. He played guitar with
Family Chain available again from John Bowman
John Bowman - fiddler, banjo picker and tenor vocalist with The Boxcars - has re-released his 2010 solo project, a bluegrass Gospel album called Family Chain. It is available now from his web site. Until coming off the road in 2006 to teach
Bluegrassers aid shooting victims’ families
As a former schoolteacher, John Bowman was “just so struck with grief” by the news that 26 people had been killed by a shooter at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December. “It just hit me in the gut,”
Crossroads announces Pisgah Ridge Records
Crossroads Entertainment and Marketing, parent company of Mountain Home Music, has launched a new subsidiary label, Pisgah Ridge Records. The new bluegrass imprint will be used for special projects, like the recently-released solo album from The Boxcars' John Bowman, and to offer production,
Family Chain – John Bowman
Unlike some of the "bandwagon" tribute recordings that it might be suspected are motivated by commercial appeal as much as a heartfelt desire to spotlight the subject of the tribute, John Bowman's new release, Family Chain, is a personal statement of
The Boxcars roll into town
We've waxed enthusiastic several times about The Boxcars here on Bluegrass Today, and the release of their debut, self-titled CD on Mountain Home Records gave us another opportunity to do so in September when the first single dropped, and again