• Junior Sisk at Ocean Lakes

    Saturday evening at the Ocean Lakes Family Campground Bluegrass Weekend I had the pleasure of catching both sets performed by Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice. I hadn’t seen Junior perform since he was with Blueridge, but he has always been

  • First single from The Heart Of A Song

    A first single from the upcoming Rebel release for Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice, The Heart Of A Song, can now be heard online. Junior hopes the new CD will be as well-received as his 2010 album, Heartaches and Dreams, which

  • Changes in Rambler’s Choice

    We had mentioned earlier in the week that Chris Davis was leaving Marty Raybon's band to work with Junior Sisk, and now have more details about that change. Junior's long-time singing partner, Tim Massey, is getting married and moving on, and

  • Cold Heart from Junior this summer

    Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice have indicated that their next album, Cold Heart, is expected from Rebel Records some time this summer. In addition to the support of his crack road band, Junior has a duet with Rhonda Vincent to brag

  • Photos from Panhandle Pickin’

    We have recently become acquainted with photographer G. Milo Farineau, who is working on a photo book project on music festivals, with an emphasis on bluegrass. He is collaborating with Chester Simpson, an experienced photojournalist whose credits include Rolling Stone

  • Jason Davis to Ramblers Choice

    Jason Davis will soon be the new banjo picker with Junior Sisk and Rambler's Choice. Darrell Wilkerson is leaving the band in April, and Jason will step in at that time. Davis has been playing with Grasstowne since the group formed

  • Junior speaks

    Junior Sisk is not known as the most talkative artist in bluegrass music, but he did record a podcast interview last week for Roanoke.com, the online home of my hometown newspaper, The Roanoke Times. Junior had a show nearby and spoke

  • Born Into Bluegrass radio premiere 8/29

    The upcoming Mountain Roads Recordings CD, Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean, will be premiered tonight (8/29) on WBRF FM 98.1 in Galax, VA. The album celebrates the contributions of Galyean, a legendary performer from western North Carolina

  • Jason Tomlin to Ramblers Choice

    Junior Sisk has announced the addition of mandolinist Jason Tomlin to Ramblers Choice. Jason had previously played bass with The Deer Creek Boys, and will also sing tenor with Junior's group. That completes a new lineup with Timmy Massey on bass,

  • Light In The Window II

    This column, containing brief reviews of recent CD releases by Richard Thompson, is published in the current (Spring 2009) edition of British Bluegrass News. As it is a lengthy piece, we have broken it into two parts, with the firt