Author: Richard Thompson

Rounder Records has announced the release date for the Dry Branch Fire Squad CD Echoes of the Mountains (Rounder 0574). Consisting of 14 songs, the first all new studio album since Hand Hewn, released in 2001, Echoes of the Mountains will

This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. What do Money in the Bank, Union Man, Snapshots and Souvenirs and Always Never

Matt Kelley of WNKU 89.7 FM (Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY) recently spoke to Gabrielle Gray, the Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, Owensboro, KY, about the Museum's ongoing education program for children that has led to

Among the forthcoming releases from Pinecastle Records is a collection of a dozen Gospel songs from Nothin' Fancy. The Virginia band has seven previous albums, three of which have been released on the Pinecastle label. Lord Bless This House (PRC 1162)

North Carolina-based quintet High Windy will be featured on Sirius-XM's Bluegrass Junction tomorrow morning. Members of High Windy - Ty Gilpin (mandolin), Patrick McDougal (banjo), Tim Gardner (fiddle), Mark V. Davis (bass) and Shane Lail (guitar) -  join Bluegrass Junction host

Not many American bands have invested in a DVD recording of their show. For a British band to do so it is positively ground-breaking. That's what the west of England quartet the Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys have done and with good

UK contemporary bluegrass band The Toy Hearts, who were the subject of a cover story in the December edition of British Bluegrass News, passed along a few bits of news. After several months offline, the band is very excited to announce

In advance of his appearance this Saturday (1/10) at Don Quixote's International Music Hall (Felton, CA), the Santa Cruz Good Time Weekly wrote about man-of-many-disciplines Peter Rowan. In an article entitled Peter Rowan saw bluegrass born, the writer drew attention to

Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention, accompanied by his wife, Karen. It was their first trip to IBMA in 20 years,

As we reported earlier (12/31), WAMU's Bluegrass Country DJ Lee Michael Demsey saw in the New Year with his Top 40 Countdown computed on the same basis as the Bluegrass Unlimited National Survey. The full list of 40 songs is shown