Author: Brance

For all you guitar lovers out there, Pantheon Guitars has recently announced a new model. The Bourgeois BK Slope D features premium bearclaw Sitka spruce top, figured mahogany back and sides, brazilian rosewood headstock, fretboard, bridge and bridge plate, and

Mountain Home Records has just announced the release of a new Lewis Family project, Flyin' High. This new CD includes a song list gathered from some of today's best songwriters, and features all the energy and excitement you've come to

Mountain Home Records recording artists Mark Johnson and Emory Lester have just announced the release of a new project entitled Acoustic Rising. Mark Johnson plays a unique style on the banjo that some have termed Clawgrass. Emory Lester is a

This week we start a roughly month long focus on issues relating to bluegrass education, and bringing bluegrass music to young people in the schools. We start with Greg Cahill, who in addition to his work as banjo picker with

Podcasting superstar Wichita Rutherford has just opened an online store where you can purchase a DVD of The Best of 5 Minutes With Wichita Vol. 1. The disc features 19 fan favorite interviews and videos from TV and video podcasts,

The Williams & Clark Expedition has just announced the release of their new self-titled CD. The disc features 14 tunes including the first single off the release, Life's Railway To Heaven, performed with special guest Marty Raybon. One other tune

Lonesome River Band has just announced the release of a new CD, The Road With No End. The scheduled release date for this disc is July 18th, 2006, but the band has advance copies for sale at their shows now.

We"ve previously told you about a new online instructional resource, The Bluegrass College. (here and here) Two of the sites founders, Brian Wicklund and Ian Nicholls, recently wrote us to give us some background information on the site and how it

While the official release date is set for August 22, 2006, Larry Stephenson has announced that he accepting advance orders for his new CD Life Stories. Audio clips are currently not available. Here is a list of the songs included

This is our second week of GrassCast episodes focused on bluegrass songwriters. Episode 34 is a discussion with Donna Hughes, whose song Poor Old Heart was recorded by Alison Krauss & Union Station on the CD Lonely Runs Both Ways.