Media

We heard this weekend from Donald Nitchie, editor of the venerable Banjo NewsLetter, with some info about the upcoming June issue. The cover feature is an interview with Tom Boyd from Dry Branch Fire Squad, conducted by Greg Cahill from Special

The Davidson Brothers have put together a brief video tease to help spread the word about their upcoming CD, Here To Stay, due for release on July 1. The boys even pick a tune on the Fender guitar they are giving

Next Tuesday (May 31) is the official release date for Audie Blaylock & Redline's terrific Bill Monroe tribute album, I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky. It's actually available now as a digital download online with CDs shipping next week. The record

Deering Banjos is looking to make the most out of the fact that young country superstar Taylor Swift has been appearing with one of their Boston 6-String acoustic/electric banjos. She played it on her new album and in the music video

Nashville alt-grassers The Farewell Drifters have released a music video for We Go Together, a track from their upcoming Echo Boom CD, due June 7 on Thirty Tigers/Sony Red. The guys have let a few live performances out on video, but

It's almost too cute... A pair of singing sisters meet up with a pair of picking brothers across a campfire jam, and a new band is born. But that is exactly how The Vespers got together. Callie and Phoebe Cryar joined

The Monroeville boys shot a music video last week just ahead of the release of their self-titled, debut CD on May 17. The video is for Chris Stapleton's Pot Of Gold, the third track on this 9 song EP. David Poag

Mountain Fever Records has released a first single from the upcoming Volume Five CD, Children Of The Mountain. The entire album is given over to songs that reflect the lives and values of  hardworking coal-miners of Appalachia. The single, Anywhere Is Home

Everybody in bluegrass and old time music loves a good killing song, right? Throw in a good courthouse shootout, and it's a sure thing. Just such an incident took place in 1912 at the Carroll County, VA courthouse, where the locally-celebrated

The Holy Coming Of The Storm is the title of the new CD from Seattle's Cahalen Morrison & Eli West on Hearth Music. It's an interesting mix of bluegrass and old time influences with Morrison primarily on clawhammer banjo and West