Pinecastle Records has announced the signing of singer, songwriter, and mandolinist Ashleigh Graham to the label. Concurrent with the announcement, they have released a first single with Ashleigh, a cute and clever song she wrote about one of southerners' favorite
The Po' Ramblin' Boys - photo © Michael Weintrob Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has released a new single for The Po' Ramblin' Boys, a song written by guitarist Josh Rinkel called Lonely Pine. Readers who attended the 2023 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards show,
A new band has hit the scene this year that is reviving the tradition of black string bands. They go by the name New Dangerfield, in honor of Dangerfield Newby, a free black abolitionist who took part in John Brown's historic
For their second single from Bluegrass Sings Paxton, Mountain Home Music's upcoming tribute album to the legendary folk singer and songwriter, Tom Paxton, Tim O'Brien is up with You Took Me In. Instead of reaching back into Paxton's deep catalog of
The peripatetic fiddle tune, Arkansas Traveler, must be among the most enduring and satisfying numbers to emerge from the fiddle traditions of the old south. Its actual origin is uncertain, though some traditional music historians place it with Sandford C.
Fast rising young fiddler and vocalist Carson Peters is up next on the second single, Long Twin Silver Line, from Lonesome Day Records' upcoming bluegrass tribute album of Bob Seger's music. The project is the brainchild of producer Randall Deaton, who
The Grand Ole Opry has invited the Amanda Cook Band to make their Opry debut July 7. Cook, a Florida singer now living in southwestern Virginia, says that they are all well beyond psyched. "We're absolutely thrilled about our upcoming Opry Debut—it's
Jack McKeon is a singer and songwriter from upstate New York, now relocated in Nashville, who admits that his raising in Chatham is a long way from the center of the bluegrass and roots music world where he now resides.
Nashville guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Rebecca Frazier has just released a music video for her latest single, a clever and humorous song which she jokes is just in time for wedding season, a tongue-in-cheek number about a philandering husband called
Pinecastle Records has a new single for Wilson Banjo Co., a band which sounds like it should be a lutherie shop - and it is - but is also and actually a bluegrass performing act. Wilson Banjo Co. is, indeed, a
