• Cups video from The Bankesters

    Here's a tough one. What do you get when you mix pretty girls with a catchy pop song, a crack bluegrass band, a summer vibe and a bunch of enthusiastic youngsters? Unless you fall down somewhere in the execution, it's a

  • Missy Werner tracking this month

    We heard last week from Jon Weisberger, who caught us up on a new project he is producing for Missy Werner. "Missy was in Nashville at Ben Surratt's Rec Room studio last week to do some recording for her next album.

  • Song of the Mountain season 8 announced

    24 new episodes were announced today for the 8th season of the live bluegrass and acoustic music program, Song Of The Mountains, debuting June 15 on almost 200 public television affiliates across the US. The show works in collaboration with UNC-TV in

  • Sierra Hull back in the studio

    Sierra Hull is spending this early part of 2013 tracking for her third Rounder Records album. They are recording at Ben Folds' Studio, the old RCA Studio A, designed by Chet Atkins in 1964. Vance Powell is engineering. In just the few

  • Faultline – Jesse Gregory

    Jesse Gregory is a strong young vocalist from Maryville, TN, currently enrolled in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University. She has the distinction of being the first woman to declare a bluegrass major

  • Who has the best hair in bluegrass?

    Heading into IBMA week, and our big Red Carpet pre-show event next Thursday at 7:45 p.m. (EDT), it seems like a good time to settle one of the most compelling debates in all of bluegrass music. Not acoustic v.s. electric bass,

  • Next Bluebird in the Bluegrass Sept 13th

    The next installment of the Bluebird in the Bluegrass songwriter series will take place next Thursday, September 13, at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, TN. The concept behind the series is to shine a spotlight on our bluegrass tunesmiths, while also raising