Music

Gary Scruggs, Grammy winner, songwriter, musician, and eldest son of the late Earl and Louise Scruggs, passed away on December 1, 2021. He was 72 years of age.  Gary Eugene Scruggs who was born on May 18, 1949, in Knoxville, Tennessee,

Mountain Home Music has released another single from their upcoming Bluegrass At The Crossroads album, a sort of band scramble project that groups artists from a variety of different outfits, brought together to record a mix of new material and

Bell Buckle Records has a new single for Pennsylvania sibling sextet, Echo Valley, a Gospel number titled My Prayer. The group consists of five Anderson sisters along with their younger brother. Emily plays fiddle, Isabelle mandolin, Lizzy plays guitar, Olivia and

Irish bluegrass/Celtic hybrid group We Banjo 3 has an ambitious December planned. Their first Christmas album, A Winter Wonderful, releases on Friday, and they begin a 10-day US Christmas tour tonight in Denver. The month culminates with the lads performing

KDM Records has released a seasonal single for Caleb Daugherty, his take on country singer Skip Ewing's lovely ballad, Christmas Carol. The song, written by Ewing and a committee consisting of Bruce Burch, Donald Burch, Johnny MacRae, Mickey Clark, and Steve Clark,

Here's another holiday offering from Pinecastle Records, a lovely acoustic string arrangement of an all-time favorite song from the 1965 television special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. The animated show based on the Charles Schulz comic strip, Peanuts, was hugely popular at

615 Hideaway Records has a new single this month for Audie Blaylock and Redline. It's the title cut from their upcoming album, Different Than Today. Like much of the band's original material, this song was written by bassist Reed Jones. It

From Finland comes Self Rising Flour, a four-piece group that specializes in original traditional bluegrass written by their banjo player, Kalle Tuovinen. They released a debut project earlier this year, All Original, filled with solid, old school grass sung in English.

Dark Shadow Recording has released a new holiday single from Becky Buller, featuring two of her original songs. Since she has done this very thing before, they are titling this release The Christmas 45 - Volume 2. The two tracks couldn't

Mountain Fever has related their first single for Theo & Brenna, newly signed to the label. It's a new Christmas song written  by Theo MacMillan called Work On Christmas. The band is based around Theo on guitar and his sister Brenna