Compass Records has put together a clever video promotion to countdown the imminent release of American Story from Bearfoot on September 27. Each episode is a brief video vignette focusing on some aspect of the recording. This first has newest member
Richard Thompson posted over the weekend about Sarah Jarosz being featured on the cover of the October issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine. I caught up with Sarah this afternoon in between her classes at the New England Conservatory to get her
Rural Rhythm released the first single from Prime Tyme, the 16th album from Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out over their 20 year tenure, back in March of this year. The song, If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again,
WAMU's Bluegrass Country, perhaps the largest Internet broadcaster of bluegrass music, has moved the transmitter for their broadcast signal into Maryland, giving them a decidedly wider footprint in and around the Washington, DC market. Their transmission antenna is now located in
America's favorite pre-teen grassers, Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, have announced October 4 as the release date for their debut album, America's Music. It's their instrumental tribute to their bluegrass forebears - their musical great-grandfathers? - with 12 tracks featuring the picking
It has been announced today that Wilma Lee Cooper died earlier this week. She was 90 years old. Her family says that she died at home on Tuesday, September 13, from natural causes. There will be no memorial or funeral service. Wilma
Pinecastle has announced two new projects set for release early in 2012. First up is a twin mandolin project from Alan Bibey and Wayne Benson. This one has been in the works for several years, and was thought to have been
David Grisman, aka Dawg, has joined those celebrating Bill Monroe's 100th birthday with a newly-released CD, Dawg Plays Big Mon - Happy Birthday Bill Monroe (ACD 77). One Sunday morning in 1961, Ralph Rinzler invited 16-year old David Grisman to see
Almost all the attention generated by TV and YouTube sensations Sleepy Man Banjo Boys has been focused on Jonny, the youngest, banjo picking of the three Mizzone brothers. Of course, it is all well-deserved, but with the Tony Rice Ultimate
I have thought a lot (and written a bit) about the "bluegrass" music being created by young string players whose impressions of its boundaries are shaped by the growing jamgrass scene, and the popularity of such groups as Punch Brothers,
