Soulful bluegrass vocalist Greg Blake has a lovely new song to start this new year, a ballad about a West Virginia boy who misses those hills of home. Bluefield Mountain Wind, written by Mark "Brink" Brinkman and David Stewart, unites Blake, a native
Newly signed with Engelhardt Music Group, California bluegrass prodigies Crying Uncle have released a single, I'll Be Here Either Way. This talented young group was originally noticed for their fiery instrumental abilities, but they are also adept songwriters and singers, as
The Ohio Country Music Hall of Fame in Waynesville, OH has announced that Paul "Moon" Mullins and his son, Joe Mullins, will be inducted in 2025. Both father and son are recognized as bluegrass music icons, as well as celebrated
Attention songwriters: two of the major bluegrass songwriting contests have opened their submissions for the 2025 events. Both the Podunk Songwriters Contest, put on by the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival in Goshen, CT, and the Hazel Dickens Song Contest, managed
Nu-Blu debuts their new music video today, a thoughtful, slice of life presentation of their current single with Turnberry Records, When It Rains, She Pours. It's something of a departure for the husband-and-wife duo that leads Nu-Blu, Daniel and Carolyn Routh,
For her next single, singer, songwriter, fiddler, and bandleader Becky Buller has assembled a group of Nashville superpickers on a twice-removed cover from the 1970s. She enlisted Molly Tuttle on guitar, Sierra Hull on mandolin, Alison Brown on banjo, and
Buddy Melton, fiddler, vocalist, and founding member of perennial bluegrass headliners Balsam Range, has announced his departure from the group. Since the band's founding in 2007 by five friends living in Haywood County, NC - just west of Asheville - Melton
Turtle Hill Banjo Company in Maryland has announced the upcoming launch of a new branded product, a Turtle Hill banjo tone ring, shipping soon. For most of its life, the company focused on the buying and selling of vintage instruments, primarily
Tennessee bass player Roy Beck, known to friends and family as Uncle Roy, died on December 31, 2024. He was 62 years of age. Roy was born in Indiana, where his interest in bass playing was nurtured going to see music
Billy Blue Records is out of the gate quick this new year with a new single from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, the second from their upcoming all-gospel project. Even Better When You Listen, written by Rick Lang and Mark
