Daniels Mullins, good friend and semi-regular contributor to Bluegrass Today, has launched his own daily radio show on Classic Country Radio, a network of stations in Southern Ohio. It's a family tradition for Daniel, broadcasting on the same station as
Here we are at round three of our 2016 March MASHness readers poll to determine the top bluegrass performer of all time! We had meant to get this up on Friday, but alas. We had another batch of closely contested contests in round two,
Steve Gulley has prepared a brief video to introduce a new album, East Tennessee Sunrise, from his good friend, Stuart Wyrick. It was recorded at Steve's Curve Studio and is set for a fall release on Rural Rhythm Records. Stuart is an
Old Salt Union from Belleville, IL has released a music video for one of the songs from their new EP, Cut & Run. The contemporary bluegrass outfit with a jamgrass vibe consists of John Brighton on fiddle, Dustin Eiskant on guitar, Jesse Farrar on bass, Ryan
As bluegrass music moves ever closer to the mainstream of America's and the world's cultural mainstream, influences from outside the southeastern US will continue to mold and reshape its sound. Already bands in Europe and Japan are distinguishing themselves by
Lovers of the banjo have much to celebrate in this first half of the year, with two carefully researched and prepared hardcover books being released on the history of the instrument. We mentioned The Banjo - America's African Instrument earlier this
Once again, noted nature photographer Kevin Dooley is hosting a group of amateur camera snappers and bluegrass students on a South African Safari in November 2016. Dan Boner, Director of the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies department at East
Merle Hazard is a clever Nashville songwriter and performer who has moved into the drastically underserved market of economic explication. No longer must we wait for an upbeat folk song about the Greek debt crisis, or the twin fears of
We're on to the second round two polls in our March MASHness competition, pitting first round winners in the Ingenious Innovators and Leading Ladies divisions against one another. These showed some of the closest vote counts so far, and the
When Aerosmith's legendary lead singer Steve Tyler made it known that he was moving to Nashville to get involved in country music, there were a lot of doubters. "What does this rocker know about country music?" and "It's just a
