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Rebel Records recently announced that the label had signed Mickey Galyean & Cullen’s Bridge, from the musically rich area of Lowgap, North Carolina, stating that their debut album for Rebel, My Daddy's Grass, is due out this summer. If you think

Tonight's Friday Night Bluegrass show at the Shepherdsville Music Barn is the next-to-last concert in this winter music series hosted by Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Gentlemen. Each week from November to early April, Gary and the boys have opened

Earlier this year we made mention of bluegrass/newgrass vocalist Ray Cardwell's return to the music business after a number of years away, and today he has introduced his touring band, Tennessee Moon. The group will feature Kyle Wood on mandolin, Richard Starkey

Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, has become known as a go-to person for information on the early recorded music of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Some music fans may recognize his name as

It's getting on that time of year again, with the eligibility period for the 2016 IBMA Awards drawing nigh, and the new releases are flying fast and furious. We've had several come in so far this week so we'll try

Mountain Fever Records has released an advance single, I Am A Drifter, the quasi-title track from their next album by Volume Five, Drifter. The highly engaging song is a contribution from award-winning writer Donna Ulisse and Marc Rossi, and sung by Volume

This month’s Songwriter’s Back Story features the song Old Train, written by Herb Pedersen and the late, Nikki Pedersen (plus as a bonus, Wait A Minute, also by Herb). It was recorded first by The Seldom Scene in 1973 as the title

When Aerosmith's legendary lead singer Steve Tyler made it known that he was moving to Nashville to get involved in country music, there were a lot of doubters. "What does this rocker know about country music?" and "It's just a

Fred Weisz, noted fiddler and graduate of the 1960s bluegrass scene in New York city, died last week in Everett, WA. He was 71 years of age and had been suffering from both mental and physical illness for some time. He

John Boy & Billy have released a new single from Terry Baucom and his band, The Dukes of Drive. It's Terry's follow-up to last year's hit, The Rock, which was the most played song of 2015 in our Bluegrass Today Weekly