• Next Great American Band tonight

    If your Friday evening plans will find you in front of a television screen, perhaps you will want to tune in to tonight's edition of The Next Great American Band on Fox. Casey Henry has been keeping us up-to-date

  • Nechville on WFDU Friday

    Tomorrow (11/9) banjo builder Tom Nechville will join Carol Beaugard for an interview on WFDU, broadcast in the New York City metro area at 89.1 FM. Tom will surely discuss his work at Nechville Musical Products, where he has been in

  • Nickel Creek – no DVD after all

    Last Friday we shared news about a Nickel Creek DVD which was to have been shot during the last two shows on their Farewell (For Now) tour at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The folks at Sugar Hill were delighted when

  • Randy Kohrs video on CMT.com

    Well... boy, howdy! The Randy Kohrs video for Who's Goin' With Me that made it to #3 two weeks ago in the Pure 12-Pack Countdown on CMT's new digital music channel, CMT Pure, ended up #1 last week in the

  • AKUS on the CMAs tonight

    Alison Krauss & Union Station will perform on tonight's (11/7) Country Music Association Awards show, televised in the US on ABC at 8:00 p.m. (EST). For AKUS fans, this may be the last chance you'll have to see them for some

  • Flatpick Jam Vol. 4 DVD

    The latest DVD release from Flatpicking Guitar is Volume 4 in Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam series. Like the three that preceded it, this DVD is a play-along video where Brad demonstrates flatpicking solos for 11 tunes, and then plays each

  • Newest member of Lost and Found?

    The accompanying photo shows Lost and Found with their newest member. And no... we don't mean the diminutive guitarist on the far right. The photo comes from the Blue Ridge Muse blog, and was taken by Doug Thompson. It shows the

  • XM bluegrass news

    Kyle Cantrell, host of XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (track 14), passed along news about a few special programs and features coming up this week on XM. The current edition of Studio Special, XM's live-in-the studio bluegrass show, airs tonight (11/5)

  • Rob Ickes and his Ickes model guitar

    Wechter Guitars has posted two new videos on YouTube, both of which show reso-master Rob Ickes test driving a new 6535R Wechter/Scheerhorn resonator guitar - the Rob Ickes signature model. The video was shot in a hotel room at last

  • Kenny and Amanda Smith on WDVX

    Kenny & Amanda Smith will join Mike Kelly this morning on A Cumberland Sunday Morning, broadcast on WDVX in Knoxville, TN from 8:00 a.m. until noon (ET). Mike will be playing fine bluegrass Gospel music all morning, and talking with