Author: Richard Thompson

The New Essex Bluegrass Band has released its first CD, entitled Hot Off The Press. The New Essex Bluegrass Band has been in existence since 1994 and has been one of the UK's most popular traditional bluegrass acts from the beginning.

Family bluegrass band Cherryholmes is making its first attempts to cross over to country radio. According to a Reuters/Billboard report, Cherryholmes is remixing - with added piano and drums - This Is My Son, one of the cuts from their forthcoming

Blue Circle Records has announced the release of Bluegrass Bouquet (BCR-017), what they describe as "an organic all-female album" from the IBMA Recorded Event of the Year award-winning Daughters of Bluegrass. This CD, the second album for the Blue Circle Record

Recently the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) announced the names of the two inductees to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame for 2008. In the non-performing category is the renowned author, the late Charles K. Wolfe. A self-described "cultural historian,"

East Tennessee State University dedicated The ETSU Walls of Time: A Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Photomural earlier today, September 17. A formal ceremony was held at 12:30pm in front of Memorial Hall. Speakers included ETSU President Dr. Paul E. Stanton

The list of acts that will feature during this year's IBMA Awards Show has been announced. The IBMA Awards Show, hosted by revered singer and guitarist Del McCoury, will feature a stellar group of performers who will entertain the audience in

Country Music Goodness, a blog covering the wide spectrum of country music, published a brief interview with banjo ace Earl Scruggs yesterday, Sunday, September 14th, 2008. Although a very brief conversation, Scruggs is asked about his contemporaneous perception of his time

Bass player, song writer and journalist, Jon Weisberger has announced the release later this month of his first solo CD. The independently labeled, If This Road Could Talk, is scheduled for release on September 16. The collection consists of a dozen

Martin Guitar & Co., probably the most famous guitar manufacturer, celebrates 175 years of production this week, September 9, 1833 being the date on which Christian Friedrich Martin immigrated to New York. During that same year "Fritz," as Martin was known,

Times have been tough for traditional brick-and-mortar music stores this past few years, but for Morgan Music, a primary source for bluegrass instruments in central Missouri since 1978, last week was especially difficult. Their Lebanon, MO premises were badly damaged in