Author: Brance

Two days ago Apple CEO Steve Jobs ignited a fire that is still burning in the music industry. DRM, Digital Rights Management, is all over the news thanks to an open letter he posted on the Apple.com website. Jobs called

Long time band member of Doyle Lawson's Quicksilver, Jamie Dailey is partnering up with Darrin Vincent, of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, to start a new group called The Dailey Vincent Band. The new band won't debut until 2008 though.

Here is the much anticipated secular album from the group that has won the Vocal Group of the Year award from IBMA for the last six years, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. The title track of the disc, More Behind The Picture

This musical isn't new. It's been around for 4 years having been premiered at the San Diego Repertory Theater in the spring of 2003. I only recently became aware of it as it's still in production and traveling the country. Fire

The 2007 SPBGMA Awards Show was this last weekend and here are the winners in each category. I know there were a lot of great nominations for each of these awards so congratulations to each of the winners. Looks like it

Knoxville, TN radio station WDVX plays a blend of music styles that cover the gamut of acoustic styles including bluegrass, gospel, and americana. The station provides an online media player as well as support for Windows Media 96K, and a

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, and a bunch of broke bluegrass musicians wondering what to get for their sweety, I thought this might help some people out. After changing your guitar strings, you don't have to throw the old

The February issue of the UK based magazine Acoustic, features an interview with mandolin master Chris Thile. Chris in nominated for a BBC Folk Award for Musician of the Year. The article is basically an interview where Chris shares his

Our friend Frank Solivan II has written in to let us know about a guitar workshop he is conducting with long time bluegrass singer/guitarist, John Miller. This two hour workshop with these two accomplished guitar players will take place next

The Greencards are a trio of young pickers on the borders of bluegrass music playing what might appropriately be termed Americana music, or as I read on one site "underground folk with a bluegrass influence." Two of the three, Warner