Music

We often think of bluegrass music as an old genre, even though it “officially” didn’t begin until the mid-1940s. However, we’re fortunate it began to grow and flourish in a time when technology was booming, allowing our parents and grandparents

Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter David Mayfield is not your typical bluegrass boy. He grew up in the fold, touring with his parents and his younger sister in their family bluegrass band, One Way Rider, even living on the road for

Carolina Blue signs with Poor Mountain Records: Timmy Jones, Jonathan Buckner, Bobby Powell, and Rick Dollar Poor Mountain Records has announced the signing last week of Carolina Blue to the label. This is part of Poor Mountain's 2017 push to become

Those of us who have been in bluegrass since the early 1980s recall legendary broadcaster Eddie Stubbs not so much for his mastery of his on-air persona, but initially from his steady fiddle, bass vocal, and MC work with The

You know that awful feeling when you record a seminal bluegrass instrumental album... and then forget about it for 53 years? Yeah... I hate when that happens. It happened to Eddie Adcock and Pete Kuykendall, who just remembered last year that

After many years associated with KCA Artists in Nashville, Blue Highway has announced that they will be be bringing booking and representation in-house, with all such duties now performed by their publicist, Sherri George. George has served as publicist and tour

East Of Monroe is a Virginia/Maryland area band that exists to perform and record original material written by its members. Working together since 2010, they took their clever name from the fact that the DC capitol region does, in fact,

Vivian and Phil Williams Phil Williams, pioneering musician, promoter, and record company owner in the Pacific Northwest, died on February 16. He had been ill for some time and was 80 years when he passed. His was a familiar face in bluegrass

Rebel Records is continuing their efforts to digitize and re-release classic bluegrass recordings with their next project, Lonesome And Blue: More Favorites from Larry Sparks, due on March 17. The collections includes 14 classic tracks that span the 40 years that

Attention Bill Monroe fans, and serious students of the early days of bluegrass. Richard Weize Archives is set to release a new, 5-CD set of Bill Monroe recordings encompassing all the tracks he cut for Decca in 1950 and 1951. And