Germany's Bear Family Records has turned their archival attention to The Brother Boys, a pioneering Americana act from east Tennessee that blended bluegrass, old time, folk, country, and blues influences in their own original material. The result is The Brother Boys:
It's a band... it's a banjo company... it's a duo. I'm so confused! Actually, Wilson Banjo Co. is all three, the shop where Steve Wilson builds his handmade banjos in South Carolina, and the name of his band, which is actually
Thai banjo picker Chanasinj Sachdev, known as Sunny to his friends, created a remarkable travelogue this summer of his trip from Bangkok in Thailand where he lives, to North Wilkesboro in North Carolina to attend a Pete Wernick Jam Camp,
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers have a big week ahead of them. Their big fall bluegrass festival, Industrial Strength Bluegrass, kicks off on Thursday in Ohio. Plus their 2023 holiday project, Because It's Christmas Time, releases on Friday on
Austin City Limits aired an episode last week that featured a live performance by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, playing material from their current Grammy-winning album, City of Gold. If you missed the program when it showed on PBS stations all
OK... we've held off as long as we could, but the time of bluegrass Christmas music is upon us. We know that many people get annoyed by holiday music this early in the year, but artists want to make sure
Rebel Records is featuring another track from their debut project with Starlett & Big John, Living in the South. This time it's one called Quit Quitin' You, written by the duo of Starlett Boswell and Big John Talley, one of six
The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville has scheduled a special appreciation concert on January 6, 2024 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the one and only Earl Scruggs. This unique show featuring a bevy of top bluegrass talent
The murder ballad has been a part of bluegrass, old time, and folk music in the US since the beginning. Drawing on the British or Celtic heritage of so many of the people of the Appalachian region, many of the
Tomorrow is the release date for the next single from The Barefoot Movement, and they have kindly given us the video to share this afternoon with all our readers. It includes banjo work from Jens Kruger of The Kruger Brothers. So
