Media

We heard this weekend from Larry Wines, who has hosted Tied To The Tracks on KCSN in Los Angeles, CA for several years. The show features a mixture of live acoustic performance and recorded music, which they describe as: "blues-to-bluegrass, Cajun-to-cowboy,

Rounder Records has created a mini-documentary and interview with Rhonda Vincent to help build interest in her upcoming January release, Good Thing Going. Rhonda speaks about how she came to write several of the songs on the new CD, and how

This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. Bluegrass got the boot last night when Cliff Wagner and

It's not just Randy Kohrs who is shocking the pundits with the power of grassroots bluegrass fans in effecting online balloting. The Chapmans also find themselves as the sole bluegrass artists in a head-to-head competition with a bevy of pop and

This evening, November 23, will find The Infamous Stringdusters on the stage of The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, making their debut performance on the venerable radio broadcast. They will be featured in the 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. segment (EST), which

Anonymous 4 is quite probably unknown to many bluegrass fans. The reason for the anonymity (sorry, I couldn't help it) stems from the fact that the group is not bluegrass. It's composed of four, imagine that, women who normally sing

Keeping up with Randy Kohrs video and single for Who's Goin' With Me... His video is still in the running at the CMT Pure Top 20 Countdown, rated #4 this week against some steep mainstream country competition. The rankings are based

The many fans of IIIrd Tyme Out can now order their live concert DVD from the band's web site. Entitled Round III at the MAC - Live, it was filmed at the same concert performance in November 2005 as their

Kyle Cantrell at XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (track 14) tells us that he has a number of interesting interviews airing over the next two days. Later today (11/20), Cadillac Sky will be featured in the 3:00 p.m. hour. On Wednesday

We don't think about it often, but these instruments we use to create bluegrass music existed before Monroe. The banjo has arguably undergone some evolution in the last 100 years, but the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass haven't changed that