• Pickin’ In The Panhandle this weekend

    Bluegrass Today will have a team at this weekend's Pickin' In The Panhandle festival in West Virginia. We will have reports from the festival, with photos and video updates, starting Friday afternoon. The fest offers two stages of music (three on Saturday),

  • Randy Jones on Blue Ridge Backroads

    Randy Jones, trusty mandolinist and tenor vocalist with Lonesome River Band, will guest Saturday night on Blue Ridge Backroads, hosted by Judith Burnette on WBRF, Blue Ridge Country 98.1. They will play through songs on his new solo project, When Old

  • Hot Pickin’ at Red White & Bluegrass

    The photos accompanying this review of the first day at Red, White & Bluegrass were taken by Laura Tate Ridge. To say thousands braved day one of Red White & Bluegrass in Morganton, North Carolina is an understatement. While temperatures reached 105

  • Sammy Shelor interview at ROMP

    Terry Herd took refuge yesterday afternoon in the Lonesome River Band bus during the afternoon heat at ROMP, and captured this interview with Sammy Shelor. Big Sam talked about the second volume of LRB's Anthology album, due July 2, which features

  • Bluegrass Today at ROMP

    Bluegrass Today will have a crew at ROMP this weekend in Owensboro, KY. They will be conducting interviews, taking pictures, shooting video and generally prowling about the grounds. If you're doing something there you shouldn't oughta, be careful - it might

  • Welcome Chet Rickman

    Brandon Rickman, guitarist/vocalist with Lonesome River Band, and his wife, Amy, celebrated the birth of their second child last week. Chet William Rickman was born on June 5, but had to be hospitalized over this past weekend for some testing and