Mountain Fever Records has released the first single from their upcoming album with ClayBank, perhaps one of the most highly-anticipated projects so far this year. The band has reformed and reorganized since last season, with two members of the original ClayBank
The last time we mentioned the music of Julian Pinelli, he was still a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The young fiddler had won the 2016 Fletcher Bright Award, given each year to an outstanding musician
Mark Lavengood has become one of the most sought-after string players in the upper midwest. Skilled on most all of the instruments commonly used in bluegrass, he is especially noted for his work on reso-guitar. A good many bluegrass lovers caught
To celebrate next week's release of their new album on Mountain Home Music, Lonesome River Band has agreed to share one of the tracks from the record with our readers. It's their remake of a song that banjo man and band
The fertile spawning ground of east Tennessee has brought forward another strong young bluegrass band, ready to take a run at the professional touring market. Midnight Run is four young men who are recent graduates of college bluegrass programs, and have
We took the occasion of a new album, Rise Sun, to chat with Jeremy Garrett, fiddle player and vocalist with Infamous Stringdusters, about this latest project and how the guys keep the magic alive after nearly a decade and a
How to describe the feeling you get when you learn of something new from Kenny & Amanda Smith? You know it's going to be a fine song, tastefully arranged and expertly performed, before you even hear the first note. That's the
Alex Leach, long time banjo picker and vocalist with Ralph Stanley II, has announced today that he will be leaving The Clinch Mountain Boys at the end of August to launch his own group, the Alex Leach Band. Just now 30
Giri & Uma Peters have created quite a sensation in the old time music world. The brother/sister duo from Nashville bring a youthful energy to the mountain traditions of fiddle and banjo music. Giri is 14, and his sister, Uma,
(left) The Davis Family, (right) Chip Davis in the studio Chip Davis is one of the most recorded voices in Nashville. Today, Chip performs with Alabama on keys and vocals. Everyone in the business knows that Davis is a singer/songwriter, and
