Radio legend and WAMU's Bluegrass Country host Tom "Cat" Reeder will be memorialized twice on the air today. At noon on Bluegrass Country, and again at 9:00 p.m. (EDT) on WAMU FM, the station will air Bye Bye Darling, a tribute
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Noam Pikelny Manchicken live video
Banjo wizard Noam Pikelny has posted a video from his ongoing tour in support of his current album, Beat The Devil and Carry a Rail. The video is for his original banjo tune, Manchicken, found on his 2004 CD, In The
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WAMU’s Bluegrass Country Turns 45
Who would have guessed that when Dick Spottswood and Gary Henderson teamed up for a half-hour radio program devoted to bluegrass music on July 2, 1967, they and offshoots of their little show would still be going strong 45 years
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Stetson & Cia video online
A debut music video has been released for Waves, from Stetson & Cia, the Americana duo of Stetson Adkisson and Cia Cherryholmes. The track is a new stand-alone single, following up their recent, self-titled album. Both are accomplished singers and songwriters, with
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Sammy Shelor interview at ROMP
Terry Herd took refuge yesterday afternoon in the Lonesome River Band bus during the afternoon heat at ROMP, and captured this interview with Sammy Shelor. Big Sam talked about the second volume of LRB's Anthology album, due July 2, which features
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Christmas in June for Rural Rhythm
It was Christmas in June last week for a bevy of Rural Rhythm artists in Pineville, KY. They had assembled at Pineville's Bell Theater for the filming of Christmas: The Mountain Way, set to air on BlueHighways TV later this year.
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Vince Gill interview at ROMP
Vince Gill sat down yesterday afternoon with Bluegrass Today's Terry Herd before his set at ROMP. Gill spoke at some length about his love for bluegrass music, and how much he is enjoying getting to tour this summer with a bluegrass
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Good old Sam Bush
Ah... the passage of time. It seems like only yesterday that Sam Bush was a radical young Turk in the bluegrass world. Now he is revered as an elder statesman. Sam makes light of his newly official status as a senior citizen
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IBMA Awards Deadline Looms
Time is running out to submit nominations for special awards that will be presented at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass conference in Nashville this September. E-mail nominations must be received by this Friday, June 29. Nominations sent by U.S. mail need to
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Don’t Mean Nothin’ video from the ‘Dusters
A debut video has been released from Silver Sky, the latest project from The Infamous Stringdusters. This is the band's first fully-independent project, financed by a crowd-sourced appeal with Pledge Music. The video is for the opening track, Don't Mean Nothin',







