Kentucky's Hammertowne has released a debut single in advance of their next project for Mountain Fever Records. It's the title track from Hillbilly Heroes, written by the band's guitarists, Dave Carroll and Scott Tackett. Scott sings the song that tells about
First round balloting for the 2017 International Bluegrass Music Awards, which was to have begun last week, has been stopped with a new ballot being prepared for voting members today. While there was no error in the existing ballot, some members
It appears from a Friday article in the San Francisco Chronicle, that the decision of the California Bluegrass Association to enter a float in the 2017 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade has caused a rift in the membership. The Board of
Noam Pikelny's new solo album, Universal Favorite, has generated a lot of attention in the mainstream music media since its release last month. Some of this is surely due to his prominence as a member of Punch Brothers with Chris
Our recent post about The Reno Brothers reuniting for a special show during this year's RenoFest in South Carolina captured the attention of a lot of people who still love the music that Reno & Smiley recorded back in the
For more than one hundred years now, O'Neill's Music of Ireland has served as a definitive source for lovers of traditional Irish folk music, at least the instrumental dance tunes that have survived to this day. Ever since its first
If it's the 14th, this must be Flashback Friday! And we have another video to share from Foxhounds and Fiddles, the debut album from bluegrass supergroup, Flashback. In fact, this will be the last Flashbcak Friday, as the album drops a
Long before the Bee Gees dreamed of disco music, they were a popular British pop band who released a number of very successful songs on the US and English charts. One of those was Gotta Get A Message To You,
David Dotson, Josh Trivett, Phil Campbell, Tracy Counts, Barry Counts, and Callie Counts with a donation check in Pigeon Forge (4/13/17). November 2016 brought devastation to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge region of east Tennessee when wildfires came racing across the mountains, destroying homes
Bluegrass fans and pickers in southwestern Virginia are saying goodbye to a music store that they have depended on this past 8 years. Capo's Music in Abingdon has announced that they will be closing the store on May 1. Shop owners
