Bluegrass At Large

Randy Driskill (Randolph to his bluegrass music friends, except for Terry Baucom who still fondly calls him Disco) is as much of a natural musician as there is. God truly gave this man a talent for hearing a song and

Recording King introduced a pair of flat top, steel string guitars at last week's NAMM show in California. Their new Greenwich Village model is designed to offer hybrid styling and features - a 13 fret, dreadnaught scale on a deeper, smaller

Got a small child in the house who likes to play with your iPad? The folks at Whynoceros Apps have developed a fun game for youngsters called Barnyard Bluegrass. Like most such apps, it seeks to both educate and entertain, and

Washburn introduced a new open-back banjo, the B-7, at last week's NAMM show in California. The pot consists of a cast aluminum shell, with 18 tension brackets. A full-scale mahogany neck with dot inlays in the rosewood board, and to-the-side tuners

Pioneering bluegrass mandolinist Herschel Sizemore has spent the past few months battling a cancer in his throat, undergoing radiation treatments since October of last year. Today he spoke with both his ENT and his oncologist, who both gave him a clean

The Loar, a division of The Music Link, has debuted a pair of new smaller body guitars during this week's Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, CA. The LO-215 and 216 both feature a full-length, dreadnaught scale neck (25.4'') and a 1-11/16” nut

Crossroads Entertainment and Marketing, parent company of Mountain Home Music, has launched a new subsidiary label, Pisgah Ridge Records. The new bluegrass imprint will be used for special projects, like the recently-released solo album from The Boxcars' John Bowman, and to offer production,

How much does the US State Department’s American Music Abroad initiative want to include bluegrass as a part of its 2012 overseas musical offerings? Enough to warrant a special contact to Bluegrass Today in hopes of reaching bands and ensembles interested in month-long,

This post is the first in what will be a series of articles on prominent west coast musicians who may not be familiar names back east. Ed Neff is a mandolin and fiddle player from Petaluma, California. Though those are his

Alton and Rabon Delmore are two of our music’s greatest contributors, but for far too many bluegrass fans, they are all but lost to the liner notes of time. Alton Delmore (December 25, 1908 - June 8, 1964) and Rabon