Author: Brance

The political magazine, American Spectator, ran a special report yesterday on their website featuring an interview and story about Charlie Louvin. The story is a nice length and includes a lot of first hand comments directly from Charlie. The history of

The annual IBMA elections concluded recently with the addition of four new board members. Only professional members vote in board elections. Elected representatives serve for a period of three years beginning with their installment on September 29, 2008. Here are the four

Bluegrass and folk music icon Doc Watson is undergoing micro-surgery today at Duke Hospital in Durham, NC. Doc is a beloved fixture of this music and his doctors feel his health is very good for his advanced age of 85.

This past Sunday evening, Tom T. Hall was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, along with the Statler Brothers. Tom T. has long been associated with bluegrass music. He got his start playing in a bluegrass band. He spent

Bluegrass artists are having an increasingly difficult time finding retail outlets for their recorded works. Wal-mart is all but inaccessable, and the brick and morter record shops are closing faster than a lick from Johnny Butten's banjo. Could Cracker Barrel become

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine has entered the digital domain. The magazine has been producing a CD for many years now, to accompany each issue. But now the magazine content itself is being offered in digital form. Flatpickdigital.com offers subscribers the opportunity to

In mid April we ran a poll asking our readers if they anticipated attending fewer festivals this season due to rising fuel prices. We had just over 500 readers participate in that poll with 58% saying that they would attend

Following John's recent post concerning the upcoming release of Africa To Appalachia, the Los Angeles Times Music Blog conducted an interview with Jayme Stone recently. The interview was published last Thursday. The primary focus is an exploration of the connections between

If you've been reading blogs for any amount of time, you've probably seen a "Tag Cloud" on one of them. A Tag Cloud takes all the tags used on the blog and generates a visual representation of those tags, more

Last night my wife and I were talking about my former life as a crew member for country singer Lorrie Morgan. I don't know how we got on the topic, but the conversation naturally turned to a discussion of Keith