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Let The Ride Begin is the debut recording from Pinecastle recording artists the Circuit Riders. While Pinecastle has yet to announce a release of the project, the band does currently have them available for purchase at their live shows. If

We got a note from IIIrd Tyme Out bassist and Deaton Agency founder, Ray Deaton, which will surely be of interest to our readers. Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you all know that I am still very much a

We posted a note last week when CMH Records released Nice Life - The Bluegrass Tribute to Bon Jovi. At the time, we didn't have much info about the new CD, but have a few more details we can share

The May/June issue of International Bluegrass, the trade newsletter published by IBMA, has a story citing recent polling data from the Simmons Research firm that says there are 17,977,000 bluegrass fans in the US. That's 8.5% of the adult population

The Del McCoury Band has posted 4 songs from their upcoming gospel release, The Promised Land, on their myspace page. Three of them you can only listen to, but one is available for download. They've also released a little information

Thanks to Reed Franklin who sent us the following. St. Petersburg Times / Citrus County Edition. RICE, LARRY PRENTIS, 57, of Crystal River, died Saturday (May 13, 2006) at Citrus Memorial Health System, Inverness. Born in Danville, Va., he came here 28

Episode #29 of The GrassCast features an interview with Alan Munde. This interview was recorded last fall at IBMA. Alan is a renowned banjo player and instructor. He currently has his own band, The Alan Munde Gazzette and teaches at

Sirius Satellite Radio has just announced that banjo player Ned Luberecki has assumed full-time host duties on the Sirius Bluegrass channel 65. Previously Ned hosted weekends only, but he can now be heard from 6 am to 12pm ET weekdays

This months edition of Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions Webzine features an artist profile of Brad Davis. It's a very thorough interview that covers a lot of Brad's background in the music and with the guitar specifically, as is evident from

We just received word that Larry Cordle underwent surgery for prostate cancer with which he was recently diagnosed. The surgery is being reported as successful and he is recovering nicely. Doctors detected the cancer during a routine physical and say