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Merlefest gets underway today. It's one of the biggest festivals in the country and many, if not most, of your favorite bluegrass acts will be performing at some point during the week. If you're not there, but you'd like to know

Same Old Place, the second Rounder release from NewFound Road, is due to hit a week from today, on April 28. We had commented a number of times about this album as it was progressing from concept to reality, and have

After many months of prototyping, Composite Acoustics is set to officially unveil their Tim Stafford signature model guitar on May 3. This has been Tim's primary guitar on the road with Blue Highway for the past year or so, and

The Pick One concert tour we told you about in December has largely come and gone, taking a star-studded bluegrass package show to Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia in early January. Instead of presenting bands that perform together normally, artists

This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. What do Money in the Bank, Union Man, Snapshots and Souvenirs and Always Never

April 2009 has been set as the publication date for the in-depth biography of Tony Rice, of which we first learned more than two years ago. Written by Tim Stafford and Caroline Wright, it will be debuted during this year's

The package show was a staple of the early rock and roll, and rhythm and blues scenes. These were touring shows where a number of popular artists would appear on the same bill - often sponsored by a record label

Martin Guitar & Co., probably the most famous guitar manufacturer, celebrates 175 years of production this week, September 9, 1833 being the date on which Christian Friedrich Martin immigrated to New York. During that same year "Fritz," as Martin was known,

Here's another Blue Circle Records release worthy of mention. Jeanette Williams will soon release her brand new CD, Thank You For Caring. The CD contains 14 tracks written by some of bluegrass music's best songwriters, including Brandon Rickman (Lonesome River Band),

Blue Highway has found itself once again in the pages of Guitar Player magazine, surely among the most widely-circulated periodicals for musicians in the world. Resonator guitarist Rob Ickes was profiled in those pages in February of 2007, and both he