• Congratulations to Banjo NewsLetter

    Today is a big day for the venerable Banjo NewsLetter. With their November 2013 issue, their 481st, the monthly magazine celebrates 40 years of continuous publication. The cover depicts BNL's publishers, Spencer and Donald Nitchie, who continue to manage the only print

  • Mountain Twerker video in production

    I suppose it was inevitable. A music video for Mountain Twerker by The Darrell Brothers has been shot and is currently being edited for release. It will more fully explicate the story, which had to be told, of their sainted grandmother

  • American Pickers video from The Grascals

    Mountain Home has released a debut music video for their upcoming album for The Grascals, When I Get My Pay. The song featured here is a tribute written for one of Grascal Jamie Johnson's favorite television programs, American Pickers, for which

  • Alan Jackson et al on Letterman

    If you missed Alan Jackson and his all-star band last night on The Late Show with David Letterman - or just want to watch it again - the video is embedded below. He performed Blacktop from his current release, The Bluegrass

  • Lindsay Lou talks Flatbellys

    One of the more interesting young bands plying their trade along the edges of bluegrass, Americana and contemporary pop music is Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys. The group is based in Michigan, but tours extensively across the US. Their curious name

  • The Roys win Bluegrass ICM award

    At last night's 19th annual Inspirational Country Music Awards in Nashville, The Roys were chosen as Inspirational Bluegrass Artist for 2013, an honor they have received for the past three years running. The brother/sister duet team play contemporary bluegrass with a