Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has released a new single from their upcoming Industrial Strength Bluegrass album, an audio companion to the newly-released book by the same name by Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison. Like the book, the new music project explores
Morning Glory Music has released a new single for The King James Boys from their current project together, Living On A Promise. It's a Gospel number from Jerry Salley and Dee Gaskin called Where Would I Be, sung by KJB guitarist
The DC Bluegrass Union has today announced the winners of their 2021 Hazel Dickens Song Contest. The annual competition chooses from among dozens of submissions from writers who receive less than half of their income from songwriting royalties, with proceeds
Pinecastle Records has a new single today from Merle Monroe, one written by cofounder Tim Raybon, and retaining the band's contemporary take on a sound pioneered by The Osborne Brothers back in the 1960s. The song is called I'm Leaving Town
Lee 'Boy' Sexton, the legendary drop-thumb (clawhammer) banjo stylist and two-finger picker from Letcher County, Kentucky, passed away on February 11, 2021. He was 93 years of age. Born in 1927, Lee Sexton worked as a field hand to earn the
Voxhall Records has announced the signing of Nashville songwriter Jimmy Melton, and the release of their first single with him, Deal with This. Of late the bluegrass world has seen a number of country performers dip their toes in the bluegrass
The ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies community is mourning another staff member and graduate with the loss of Aaron "Frosty" Foster, 28, who passed away at his home in Elizabethon, TN, on February 10, 2021. Foster, a native
Last week we shared news from bluegrass singer and songwriter, Caleb Bailey, as he welcomed the birth of a son, Colt Steele Bailey. We also mentioned at the time that Caleb's debut single was set to release the next day, and
Billy Blue Records has released a new single to bluegrass radio from their current project with Carolina Blue. It's another written by CB guitarist Bobby Powell, Raining in Roanoke, which he says came to him in a moment of sheer inspiration
Compass Records has released a first single from their upcoming duet project with Mike Barnett, simply titled +1. It boasts a baker's dozen tracks, each featuring Barnett, fiddler with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, alongside fellow virtuosi in the acoustic string
