Bobby Osborne has put together another Christmas greeting for mandolin lovers worldwide, performed with his fellow instructor at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional Music, Scott Napier, and a private student, Lauren Price. They arranged a triple mandolin version of a familiar carol, and
For those of our readers suffering from Bluegrass Junction withdrawal this week while your favorite satellite channel is preempted for holiday programming, here are a few suggestions to help scratch your bluegrass itch. First off, Bluegrass Junction is still producing new
North Carolina's Unspoken Tradition has dropped a first video from their latest album, Miles Between. The song and the video for The Bullet are thoughtful and provocative, with the projectile itself narrating a story of how it can and has been
Late yesterday evening we heard back from SiriusXM, following our story Wednesday morning about their decision to preempt Bluegrass Junction (Channel 61) with Hanukkah music from December 8-14. The response came from Patrick Reilly, Senior Vice President of Communications, who shared
The Moron Brothers have shared a video of their new Christmas song, full of their down home, if not corn pone, humor. It tells us why Santa no longer visits their shack. A Moron Brothers Christmas Special is available now at CarbonTV,
We have been well served with bluegrass music books during the past year with the superb study of the Stanley Brothers' career and recorded music, The Music Of The Stanley Brothers, the substantial Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee Biographies, the
It was announced this morning that SiriusXM will be changing the musical format of channel 61, Bluegrass Junction, for 9 days. Instead of the 24/7 bluegrass signal so many listeners have come to love, they will broadcast Hanukkah Radio, in honor of
Bill and The Belles is a quartet based in Johnson City, TN who specialize in what they call early country music. This is the music created by rural, mostly Southern Americans, from the development of broadcast radio in the 1920s
Mountain Home Music has released a sneak peak video for their upcoming album for The Grascals, And Then There's This, and their new singer/guitarist, John Bryan. If you've caught them live this summer, you already recognize Bryan as an outstanding bluegrass
Annie Patterson and Peter Blood have collaborated with Hal Leonard to create a new edition of their very popular songbook, Rise Up Singing. Like the original, which is still available, this new songbook offers words and chords to 1200 great folk songs
