KDM Records released a new single on Friday by Caleb Daugherty, from his upcoming sophomore bluegrass album, a song called Daylight's Burning. For many bluegrass fans, last year's record, Burnt The Sawmill Down, was their first exposure to this highly talented singer
Bill Torbert Jr, former member of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in a nursing home at the age of 81. Born in Washington, DC and raised in DC and Maryland, he
Here's another new single this week from Mountain Home Music, this time for perennial bluegrass headliners, Lonesome River Band. LRB has been touring and recording now for almost 40 years, and despite occasional personnel changes along the way, band leader Sammy
Mountain Fever Records has released a new single from Amanda Cook, one that will be included on her next album with the label. Amanda tells us it's one that she started working on more than a decade ago, and just finished
Bluegrass music's favorite young married couple, Sierra Hull and Justin Moses, is back with another hot mandolin instrumental, Taxland. It's one Justin wrote which appears on his upcoming Mountain Fever album, Fall Like Rain. The tune falls into the contemporary gypsy
615 Hideaway Records has announced the signing of banjo legend Bill Emerson to the label, with plans for a new album with Bill and his son Billy in the works for the near future. A first single has just been released,
Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has released another book of transcriptions, this time featuring the playing of Dan Tyminski with Lonesome River Band. Tristan has transcribed all of Dan's solos from LRB's breakout album, Carrying The Tradition, which set the bluegrass
The Farm Hands have been through a lot in 2020, as we all have, and they are back as strong ever with some new members, an updated sound, and even a new web site. But they are still playing the
Ontario's Chopped Liver, a contemporary bluegrass trio based in Toronto and Hamilton, is preparing to release their second album in November called D.B. Cooper, with a second single available today in advance of the full project. The band typically focuses on
Here's one for everyone who thinks that young people are abandoning traditional bluegrass. Alan Sibley, noted Mississippi mandolinist, vocalist, and bandleader, has united with Anthony Howell, banjo and mandolin man with Williamson Branch, to record an album of new instrumental music.
