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Thornton Spencer, fiddle player with The Whitetop Mountain Band, passed away on Saturday evening, November 25, 2017. A U.S. Army veteran, he was 82 years of age when he passed Born on November 12, 1935, in Rugby, Virginia, Thornton Lee Spencer

Finland's Jussi Syren & The Groundbreakers are on the hunt for a new bass player, something they haven't thought about for some time. Kari Hella has been with them the past 20 years on bass, but is having to step

Seldom Scene signs their new contract with Rounder - photo by Sally Love Though details are scant, Rounder Records has announced that bluegrass supergroup Seldom Scene has signed with the label for their next album. A new project is set to be

The Barefoot Movement has a lot going on over the holidays this year. There are a pair of videos with songs from their new full-length Christmas CD, and a tour starting this week, and running through the 21st, where they will

Ohio based Caney Creek has had a change in the lineup as long-time mandolin player, Dave Prater, has announced he will be retiring from the band. Dave had this to say on his Facebook page: "I have come to the decision, after

Pinecastle Records has released a lyric video for the new single from Wildfire. It's for the song, Three, included on their 2016 album, Rented Room On Broadway. Guitarist/vocalist Robert Hale says that he wrote this one inspired by the birth of

Dan Boner, Director of the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University, has released a Christmas single of his own, with a different sort of take on holiday bluegrass. Most of the Yuletide grass falls

The Vintage Martins, an acoustic/bluegrass duo consisting of Bud Bierhaus and Eric Uglum, have signed with Eastwood Records for a new album, Traveled, due in April of 2018. It's an interesting pairing for both label and artists. Eastwood is a Louisville,

Flashback has joined the ranks of bluegrass artists releasing new Christmas music this year. While hard at work this month tracking for a new Pinecastle project in 2018, they cut two others with a Yuletide flavor. One is a stately, acoustic

The Wooks - Arthur Hancock, Aaron Bibelhauser, Roddy Puckett, and C.J. Cain Aaron Bibelhauser, who has made quite a splash as a bluegrass songwriter in recent years, has a new outlet for his music. He’s joining The Wooks, a Kentucky-based bluegrass