• Tear The Woodpile Down – Marty Stuart

    Sugar Hill Records has announced an April 24 release date for a new album from Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, Tear The Woodhouse Down. No... it isn't a bluegrass record. From all appearances, it would categorized as traditional country. But no

  • Peter Rowan film – The Tao of Bluegrass

    Peter Rowan has always been something of a flamboyant figure, perhaps unintentionally. From a skinny kid playing with one of Bill Monroe's most radical versions of The Blue Grass Boys, through stints as a yodeling rocker in Seatrain, and on

  • AKUS to mark Simpsons quincentenary episode

    Bluegrass music... it's a powerful thing! Earlier this week we were talking about pop chanteuse Adele and her fondness for bluegrass music, and now there's word that animated dynamo The Simpsons has called on Alison Krauss & Union Station to provide

  • IBMM honors The Godfather

    And we're not talking pizza, or anyone in the Corleone family. The International Bluegrass music Museum has announced a partnership with the H.L. Neblett Community Center in Owensboro for the Arnold Shultz String Music Project. Shultz was a musical contemporary of Bill Monroe,

  • Keys To The Highway goes live

    Patrick Costello is nothing if not dedicated to music - banjo music in particular. We posted previously about his having learned to play despite a severe hearing loss suffered as a child, and then regaining his hearing after a successful surgical

  • Punch Brothers on Leno, and in Vanity Fair

    And speaking of Punch Brothers... They are scheduled to appear on Wednesday's edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and will perform Movement and Location, the first single from their just-released Who's Feeling Young Now? project. The show airs February 15 on

  • Another Punch Brothers video

    Punch Brothers have released another brief video snippet from their new album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, available today from Nonesuch Records. This time it's the song New York City, with Chris Thile and the gang pictured in the studio. Perhaps all

  • IBMA at the Crossroads

    Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of occasional articles about the future of IBMA. This story contains many more numbers than the one-four-five usually associated with bluegrass, and a more serious approach than we usually take at

  • Road To Roosky videos

    The Carter Brothers have released a pair of impromptu videos featuring material found on their new Compass CD, The Road To Roosky. Tim, the banjo playing brother, tells us what to expect right up front on this roots-oriented look at where