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About the time that Tom T and Dixie Hall were being announced as new members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame on Wednesday – cause for joy for songwriters everywhere – the writing community was hit with sad news.

Cascade Crescendo, a jamgrass band from Portland, OR, has a new single from their upcoming Chasing the Sun album, due later this fall. They specialize in original bluegrass and Americana music with a folky edge. The group consists of Aden Beck on

Bluegrass pickers in central North Carolina have lost a good friend this week with the passing of Harold Chriscoe. He was 81 years old when he passed on July 25, surrounded by his family at home. Chriscoe had been repairing and eventually

The folks at Mountain Home Music Company have agreed to let us share the title track from Come See About Me: A Benefit For The IBMA Trust Fund. It's a song written by Conway Twitty, produced by Doyle Lawson, and featuring

How much progress are you making in jam sessions? Have you got all the development aids that you need? Well, will a songbook - the words to the tunes that you are trying to conquer – be helpful?  Published songbooks aren’t as

Beloved bluegrass songwriter Pete Goble died today in Michigan. He was 86 years of age. Excluding Bill Monroe, Carter Stanley, and Flatt & Scruggs, it is unlikely that anyone has contributed as many songs to the bluegrass canon as Pete. Both

(Editor’s Note: This article is drawn from an interview the author conducted for his radio show, Songwriter Showcase, which will debut next month at bluegrasscountry.org.) Jim Lauderdale and Roland White have a pile of records between them. Lauderdale alone just passed

Bluegrass tours have been known to stop in some unique places that other genres might never think to book... school auditoriums, community centers, fields on a mountain in the middle of nowhere. Lafferty Pike, an all-female, family bluegrass band that

We written many times about Nashville's High Fidelity, and their mission to bring back the sound of bluegrass music from the '50s and '60s. It's a project of Jeremy and Corrina Stephens, husband and wife as well as musical partners,

Fans of The Cleverlys, that crazy clan of wacky grassers from Arkansas, are used to never knowing what will be next. Their penchant for creating hilarious bluegrass covers of massive pop songs continues unabated, with an uproarious stage show that