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Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out have announced the newest member of the band, to start out the 2019 season. Dustin Pyrtle, who recently stepped down as guitarist with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, will be the new bass player with 3TO.

West Virginia's Hillbilly Gypsies have announced the addition of Robbie Mann to the group on fiddle. This highly entertaining stage band has been working festivals and concert halls since 2001, bringing a sort of hybrid sound that blends old time and

Spartanburg, SC's Backline has been moving fast as a new entry on the bluegrass scene. This young group is only about two years old, but they have already placed songs on our chart, and have been steadily entertaining audiences wherever

Outstanding, veteran upright and electric bass player Doug Campbell, most recently a member of Ray Edwards & Hard Rock Mountain, passed away on December 22, 2018. He was 62 years old and had been performing in bluegrass bands since he was

MVD Entertainment Group has released a double live CD that will be of interest to fans of California bluegrass in the 1970s, and followers of Grateful Dead alumnus, the late Jerry Garcia. Good Old Boys Live - Drink Up & Go

Billy Wheeler, a very active banjo player in northern Virginia since the 1970s, died at his home on December 20. He was 62 years of age. Born Jospeh William Wheeler III, Billy seemed able to play most any stringed instrument he

If you were to visit Anni Beach’s house on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon you would be well able to ascertain what is happening indoors, long before reaching the door of the humble home located in an immigrant neighborhood of

Banjo maestro Butch Robins has recreated as a single, a song he wrote a couple of years back, and re-released it this year as a Christmas treat. It's one called Holiday Toast, which combines an old fashioned wish for the

The Larry Stephenson Band got an early Christmas present in the form of Eddie Faris, who is now playing bass and singing harmony vocals with the group. Bluegrass fans will quickly recognize Eddie from his recent time singing harmony with Ricky

When celebrated singer, songwriter, and storyteller Grant Maloy Smith published his children's book earlier this year, he recognized that its story simply cried out for a song. So he wrote one, and since his target audience was young readers, he