• Go Parker… go straight to Christmas

    It seems we all love Christmas music, and we all love our favorite artists, which makes holiday-themed albums from popular artists a recurring part of the Christmas tradition. The latest bluegrasser taking this route is Jeff Parker, whose strong voice and

  • More from Grasstowne in Scandinavia

    The Grasstowne boys are still tooling around northern Europe, completing a tour of Finland and Norway that concludes this week. They have a few more shows in Norway, and then back across the Atlantic and home. As he has been able,

  • Harry Lane passes

    Harry Lane, noted boutique banjo builder, and artisan craftsman, passed away early Tuesday morning (7/9) in Savannah, GA after a brief and ultimately terminal battle with brain cancer. He was 72 years of age, born December 1, 1941 as Raymond

  • John Miller to do battle with cancer

    John Miller has been playing and singing bluegrass since he was old enough to hold a guitar in East Tennessee. Living now in Christiansburg, VA, he's done stints with Bill Emerson, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, and Tim & Savannah Finch in

  • Bandzoogle acquires Onesheet

    Bandzoogle, popular self-service web and domain hosting company, has acquired Onesheet, a similarly-situated company based in San Francisco. While Bandzoogle offers artists and bands the ability to build a web presence with anything from simple, templated web sites up to fully-customized

  • Healed coming soon from Locust Ridge

    July 30 has been announced as the release date for Healed from Locust Ridge on Rural Rhythm Christian. The members of this East Tennessee quartet are three brothers, Russell, Josh, and Larry Allen, along with close family friend Andy Blalock. These

  • New owners at Colorado Case

    If you play a stringed instrument - and we know that a large percentage of our readers do - you may already be familiar with the Colorado Case Company. They have been making custom cases, gig bags and case covers