Music

Grascals mando man Danny Roberts has a new single this week from his upcoming project with Mountain Home Music. It's an instrumental he wrote called West Virginia Red, which also features Tony Wray on guitar and banjo, Jimmy Mattingly on fiddle,

Folklorist Loyal Jones, hailed as 'the father of modern Appalachian studies,' and an 'indefatigable and beloved interpreter of Appalachian life and culture,' passed away in Black Mountain, North Carolina, on October 7, 2023. He had been diagnosed with cancer, and

Jesse Smathers, guitarist with the Lonesome River Band, has just independently released a new single, Sing Darling Sing. The lively toe-tapping original tune has an old-time flavor that features a clawhammer banjo, fiddle, and mandolin. This is the first taste

In his latest release, Indiana bluegrass singer and songwriter Carl Bentley deals with a very difficult subject, one that affects many families of our service members who have been scarred by what they experienced in wartime. It hits especially hard

Copper Mountain Records has released a new single and accompanying music video for Crandall Creek, featuring the band's newest member, vocalist Carly Greer. Titled Just 18, the song tells of a young woman who leaves home with a dream of music

North Florida's Remedy Tree has released a music video for their latest single, Don't Look Back. The band is the brainchild of Gabriel Acevedo. It was started in 2015 as and indie-folk type band and slowly became Gabriel's dream of a

Can it really be eight years since we've had new music from Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out? It seems that over the past three decades touring together, Russell only records when he has the band sounding just right, and has

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers have announced new representation, moving to the new agency formed by Katie Kirchner, Katie K. Wrangles. Kirchner got her start in artist representation as a founding member of the popular and long-lived midwestern band, Full

West coast flatpicker Jason Keiser is announcing a new album of solo guitar pieces with a debut single tomorrow, his arrangement of the gospel standard, The Old Rugged Cross. Growing up in California, Keiser took up an interest in both bluegrass

The Columbus, OH bluegrass community has lost one of their stalwarts. Ray Sparks, who built and repaired instruments in the region for many years, has died. He passed on September 25 at 89 years of age. Born and raised in Johnson