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Bill Amatneek has had quite a career playing bass and banjo in and around bluegrass and acoustic music. He was visible in the 1970s with Vern and Ray, and left a permanent mark as bassist on the seminal debut album

In their sneak peek video last month, Compass Records revealed that one of the tracks featured on the upcoming Bankesters CD, Love Has Wheels, is what has become known as The Cups Song. The actual song title is When I'm

Regular readers will recall our earlier coverage of mandolin icon Herschel Sizemore and his recent bout with cancer. Both he and his wife Joyce received cancer diagnoses the same day in October 2011, his in the tonsil and hers in

Compass Records has released a music video to promote the September 24 release of their debut album with The Bankesters, Love Has Wheels. It's the appealing family band's first project with a label after a string of successful, independently-produced records. Love

Donna Ulisse has another music video from her current I Am The Child Of God CD, a collection of Gospel songs she has written and included on previous projects, along with a couple of newly-recorded tracks. One of those new tracks is

Perennial festival favorites Nothin' Fancy have both a live performance DVD and a greatest hits CD to offer their fans this Summer, as they approach their 20th anniversary in 2014. Most Requested, Volume 1 contains 18 tracks from the band's first

The folks at Rural Rhythm Records have dedicated the time for some serious YouTube programming, and created a fun online quiz to test your knowledge of their recent releases. Actually, this is a beta version of a more detailed version they

Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, the autobiography of Josh Graves (edited by Fred Bartenstein) has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Since 1991, the ARSC has sought to preserve and study historical sound recordings

Rural Rhythm Records is hard at work on a music video for the title track of their God Didn't Choose Sides album, which contains stories of tragedy, love and loss during the War Between The States. The songs were commissioned

Colorado's Head For The Hills have released a debut video from their current CD, Blue Ruin. The songs is Take Me Back, sung by guitarist Adam Kinghorn. Other band members include Michael Chappell on mandolin, Joe Lessard on fiddle, and Matt Loewen on bass.