Author: Richard Thompson

Rounder Records has announced the forthcoming release of Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection, due on August 5. The 17-track album assembles a wide range of material from Rice's catalogue of covers of the work of the many singer-songwriters with whom he

We have commented twice in recent weeks about the forthcoming McCoury Music release Moneyland. Now I can report that Del McCoury flies to New England this week to appear on the popular A Prairie Home Companion radio program to further

Despite his age, 88 and looking very well too, Curly Seckler continues to be professionally active. Recently he has appeared on the public TV affiliated Song of the Mountains show, firstly with the Steep Canyon Rangers and then with Larry Sparks. Song

With gas prices making festival attendance more doubtful, for many, bluegrass on television perhaps becomes more attractive than hitherto. Recently, I was alerted to the appearance on Kentucky Educational Television's Jubilee stage of California's High Country, one of the West Coast's

The 2008 series of Bluegrass Nights At The Ryman begins this Thursday, June 26. The annual summer series of shows staged at the so-called mother church of country music, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, will include appearances by Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs,

Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee continues its recruitment drive with the addition to the label's roster of The Whitetop Mountain Band from Whitetop, Virginia. The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band from an area featuring the highest mountains of

Yesterday (Friday 6/13) I received a note from John Lilly, the editor of Goldenseal (the magazine of West Virginia traditional life) and multi-talented acoustic music performer, telling me about what's on West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage show this coming

Award-winning photo-journalist Stephanie P. Ledgin has announced that her entire photo exhibition, From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music, is for sale by auction. This once-in-a-lifetime, winner-takes-all auction will reap the winning bidder 40 select custom prints from

In November last year Jim Peva gave notice of the impending sale of the Bill Monroe Memorial Park and Campground, home of the famous Bean Blossom bluegrass festivals. More recently, he informed us of current plans. Following on from that comes

Folk singer, raconteur and activist Bruce Duncan 'Utah' Phillips, whose songs included tales of the state's working class and tragedies, passed away in his sleep at 11:30pm PDT on May 23, aged 73, ending a roughly ten year bout with