• Audie Blaylock and Backroad Gold

    Are you a fan of the Travel Channel... or the popular genre of antiquing and restoration on TV these days? If so you are liable to hear some fine bluegrass when you tune in to Travel's newest show, Backroad Gold with

  • Dr. Ralph gets a dance mix

    One of the most enduring and chilling images from the successful 2000 film, O Brother, Where Art Thou, was the Klan rally scene that featured the Grand Kleagle singing an a cappella version of O Death in the voice of Ralph Stanley. It

  • The High 48s ride the train

    The High 48s, a Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, band formed in 2006, is working on an album of train songs with funding for the project coming from a successful Kickstarter campaign. This will be their fifth album project. They are a five-piece

  • Earl Scruggs Center opens in a deluge

    Over one thousand fans of the five-string gathered in Shelby, North Carolina on Saturday, January 11, 2014 to experience the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center. Despite pouring rain that moved several events that had been scheduled to take

  • Bluegrass Ramble and NoiseTrade

    The IBMA has partnered with NoiseTrade to help promote the music of the 2013 crop of showcase artists at their World of Bluegrass. Called the Bluegrass Ramble Sampler, the free download includes 24 tracks from Johnny Williams, Nora Jane Struthers, Henhouse

  • Rocketman video from Iron Horse

    Starting in the early 1970s, American rock/jazz/pop band Steely Dan introduced a new model in the music business. Though they did tour extensively at the beginning, they soon became a studio band where their two creative founders (Donald Fagen and

  • Fiddlers 20 from Fiddler magazine

    Fiddler magazine has come up with a unique way to celebrate their 20th year of publishing. They have released a retrospective CD/book package called Fiddlers 20 which includes transcriptions and recordings by 20 artists featured in the magazine over that same