Author: Ellie Smith

Adam and Amy Pope’s Roan Mountain is a song that drifts over the ridgelines of time, and it's one that Adam says, "came from the mountain." This song rides on the fog, covering the hills and haunting the hollers. It's a

Darin & Brooke Aldridge are singing a true, Sunday morning revival meeting on this new track featuring the stellar vocals of John Cowan.  You Don't Knock opens with a mandolin line that gets listeners clapping along in the spirit even before

Each year, the IBMA Industry Awards recognize the brightest stars on the business side of bluegrass, and the 2025 awards are now in the books.  Mike Bub MCed the event, and following his opening remarks, Becky Buller and Nancy Cardwell took

Darin & Brooke Aldridge at the 2025 Earl Scruggs Music Festival In the four years that Scruggs Fest has been on the scene, one thing has been constant: the Sunday Morning Gospel set from Darin & Brooke Aldridge. Each year on

The Nest of Singing Birds at the 2025 Earl Scruggs Music Fest - photo © Cora Wagoner The Nest of Singing Birds is a group of ballad singers composed of artists from western North Carolina and beyond who have all come

Stephen Burwell with Authentic Unlimited at the 2025 Earl Scruggs Music Fest - photo © Bryce LaFoon We'll have a great deal of coverage this week from the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, held over the Labor Day weekend.

The highly anticipated new single from Authentic Unlimited has just arrived, bringing with it a wave of excitement and new ventures for the band.  Cost of Living sits you in the passenger seat headed down the road under a dark-navy sky,

The Lonesome River Band's latest single released last Friday, and it's a song that transports you right into the middle of a vibrant, bustling dance hall on the Carolina/Virginia line.  Square Dance Friday Night kicks off with Mike Hartgrove's fiddle rocking

March 22, the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame rang in their seventeenth annual induction ceremony. This year's ceremony featured artists from deep in the coves and hills of the Blue Ridge region, and even two inductees who were brought

Bob Minner, Rhonda Vincent, and John Meador at The Station Inn For his latest single, Bob Minner has taken a classic Osborne Brothers tune and given it a new side as a lonesome ballad.  Releasing a version of Listening to the Rain