Music

This remembrance from the recording of Epilogue: a Tribute to John Duffey comes from Akira Otsuka. Together with Ronnie Freeland, he spent 15 years recording this loving tribute to a bluegrass legend, who was also a dear friend to Akira. It is

Rounder Records has released a first single today from the upcoming Smoke & Ashes album by the Lonely Heartstring Band. The Boston-based group approaches bluegrass with their own unique perspective. Like many young artists on the grassicana side of the market,

The 615 Hideaway, an online television program featuring the top music in Nashville, is doing a bluegrass Christmas special today with many of the artists who performed on Rural Rhythm Records' A Very Merry Bluegrass Christmas album, released earlier this

Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers received a signal honor on Monday of this week when the Mayor of their hometown of Shepherdsville, in Bullitt County, KY, presented them with the Key to the City. Mayor Curtis Hockenbury invited Gary and

Just when you may have thought you had heard every permutation of the country name song titles in bluegrass, Ray Edwards springs a new one on us. His latest single is Wanda Lou, and it's not even a made up

With the release of his third album for Patuxent Music, That's Why I'm Lonesome, Danny Paisley builds on his solidly established reputation as a specialist in powerful, unadorned and intense traditional bluegrass music.      This release features a mixture of old

Bob Amos is best known for fronting the Colorado-based band Front Range that played together during the period from 1988 through to 2004, during which period they released seven albums.  Amos wrote roughly 75% of the songs recorded by Front Range,

Carl Jarrell, Jr., also known as CJ the DJ, has released a single with his band, Kentucky Rain. It's a song that will tear at the hearts of anyone who has dealt with a loved one experiencing the debilitating effects of

Nearly 60 years into a celebrated career, Dolly Parton has released her 5th soundtrack album for a major motion picture. This time it's for Dumplin', a Netflix original film based on the 2015 best-selling young adult novel of the same

This past weekend the bluegrass program at Glenville State College in West Virginia held their sixth and final youth music camp of the year for students in the Glenville community. It was led by Megan Darby, Assistant Professor of Music