Rebel Records has released a new single for The Kody Norris Show, along with a music video, the fourth from their current album, All Suited Up. This one is for Farmin' Man, one Norris wrote, and boy does it get along
Author: John Lawless
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Drone footage of Sideline at SamJam 2021
To close out a week full of festival coverage, here is video shot by a drone hovering over the 2021 SamJam Bluegrass Festival in Piketon, OH. It captures a power beginning to Sideline's closing set on September 4, which began with
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Drip Rock Kentucky – new single from Marty Raybon
Billy Blue Records has released a second single from Marty Raybon's "back to bluegrass" project, which he promised his fans would be coming after he took some time away for reunion touring with Shenandoah. The song finds Marty back in collaboration
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Track Premiere: Railroad Town Without A Train from Jr. Williams
Mountain Fever Records has a debut single next week for Jr Williams, newly-signed to the label, from his upcoming full length album. We are happy to offer our readers a pre-release listen today. Williams has been working in bluegrass music much
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Track Premiere: Whittling Away from Angus Gill, with Jim Lauderdale
Angus Gill is a young singer/songwriter from New South Wales in Australia, whose 4th studio album, The Scrapbook, is dedicated to his love of bluegrass music. He wrote and recorded the music during the recent COVID-19 shutdowns, many of which
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DelFest postponed again to 2022
Rob and Ronnie McCoury have just announced that DelFest 2021, typically held over Memorial Day each year in Cumberland, MD, has decided to postpone the festival yet again, and plans to hold it in May of 2022. It appears from their
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Mark Varner passes
Mark Varner - photo by Snap Jackson/Mark with his son, Marty Mark Varner, prominent California bluegrass musician and active volunteer with state bluegrass associations, died unexpectedly in his sleep on September 4. He was at his long-awaited retirement home in Dangriga,
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IBMA announces full performance schedule for Bluegrass Live!
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the full performance schedules for weekend events following World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC. The Business Conference, which normally draws industry professionals from all over the world, occurs September 28-30, followed by a
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Track Premiere: Only Blue from Swamptooth
Swamptooth is a new contemporary bluegrass group from Savannah, GA whose debut album, B-Flat Earth, is set to release later this month. The band formed last year in an attempt to stay fresh on their instruments while live performances were proscribed,
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Red Toad Road video by Carolyn Eyerly
Northern Virginia bluegrass singer and songwriter, Carolyn Eyerly, has released a music video for another of the songs on her current Patuxent Music album, The Sunny Side of Life. This one is called Red Toad Road, which Carolyn says was inspired










