As part of this past weekend's European World of Bluegrass convention in Voorthuizen, The Netherlands, a new top European Bluegrass Band for 2014 has been chosen. Dunderhead, a group from Sweden, took first place honors this year in the band competition.
Have you checked this week's Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart? We see some changes at the top this week. Dailey & Vincent's version of Back To Hancock County has snagged the #1 spot away from Ashley Lewis, and both Detour and
Today we launch a new feature which we hope will be a weekly column highlighting the many bluegrass broadcasters who report their spins for our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart. We want to give them a little bump for helping
Balsam Range has offered this clever video to introduce the opening track of their upcoming album, Five. It shows the band's work on the song Moon Over Memphis, starting with them working up an arrangement in the studio, through to them tracking
One of the strongest projects I've yet heard this year is Darren Nicholson's Things Left Undone. The Balsam Range mandolinist really stretches out and explores his wide range of talents on this record, with a great lineup of sidemen and a
Kudos to Ted Lehmann, bluegrass blogger extraordinaire, for shooting and posting this video from the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival a week ago. He captured US Navy Band Country Current performing their popular service anthems medley, which is a high point of all their
Gangstagrass, a hip-hop/bluegrass hybrid outfit from Brooklyn, has a new music video for their latest release, All For One. While not likely to please hard-core traditionalists (I'm talking to you, Dennis Jones), bluegrass lovers with an ear for different sounds
Bluegrass Today columnist Lisa Jacobi has had her Artist2Artist podcast picked up by Stitcher Radio, whose free app for smart phones and tablets makes over 20,000 audio interview programs available for streaming. Stitcher charges no subscription fees for their service, which is
G2 travelled from their native Sweden in April to record their next album, Mind Over Matter, in Nashville. Previous projects had been tracked in Sweden, so this was a major change. Instead of recording a song here or there as
Here's an interesting video from Head For The Hills, one of the several acoustic string bands using the ensemble format common to bluegrass or old time music to perform original material more inclined to pop or indie rock. The song is Never
