• Bryce Eldridge called up by the Giants

    Bryce Eldridge, grandson of the late, great Ben Eldridge of Seldom Scene fame, was called up from AAA affiliate Sacramento River Cats to the San Francisco Giants for the September push. No, we haven't turned into a sports news site overnight

  • Missin’ Mississippi and You from Alan Sibley

    Mississippi mandolinist, vocalist, and bandleader Alan Sibley has a new single, Missin' Mississippi And You, sung as a duet with Corrina Rose Logston Stephens. The song was written by fellow Mississippian Leonard Barrier, a waltz-time country ballad about longing for home,

  • Day 2 at the 2025 Monroe Mandolin Camp

    Tony Williamson shows off his Loars at the 2025 Monroe Mandolin Camp - photo © Jim Morgan Day two at 12th annual Monroe Mandolin Camp delivered what pickers and players live for—deep musical knowledge, legendary instructors, and the kind of late-night jamming

  • Smell the Rose from The Foreign Landers

    The Foreign Landers, i.e., Tabitha and David Benedict, have a lovely new song today as their latest single, one called Smell the Rose. It comes from a new project they have recently completed, soon to be released. David shared a few

  • Billy Thibodeau back with Rock Hearts

    Following several months of recovery after a quadruple bypass, and the surgical removal of two tumors from his right lung, mandolinist and vocalist Billy Thibodeau is back on the road with Rock Hearts. It was tough spring for this New England

  • J.R. Freeland to Route 3

    Route 3 has announced the addition of J.R. Freeland to the band on banjo, filling the spot recently vacated by Janice Martin. Freeland is a Missouri native, where he was raised in a bluegrass family, starting on the banjo at age