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The Grascals have announced a January 8 release for And Then There's This, their next new album from Mountain Home Music. This highly-anticipated project will be their first since the addition of John Bryan on guitar and vocals earlier this year.

Well, I guess it's time to have a look at some of the special Christmas offerings available this year. Chris Jones got things started this week by pulling back the curtain on how holiday recordings are made. So we will try

Mike Kropp, life-long banjo player and cherished friend of the banjo and bluegrass community in the northeastern United States, died yesterday (11/10) in a hospital near his home in Rhode Island. He was 70 years old, and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. It

Wasting no time after yesterday's announcement that Cody Kilby was leaving Kentucky Thunder, Ricky Skaggs has announced today that Utah flatpicker Jake Workman has joined the band. Like many young guitarists, Jake came to bluegrass sideways, having started with an interest in

After 14 years slinging hot licks on guitar for Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Cody Kilby is moving to The Travelin' McCourys. The popular band, which is in effect, The Del McCoury Band absent the Del, has never had a full

Amanda Fields has released a debut single from her upcoming EP, a lovelorn ballad she wrote with former AKUS bassist John Pennell called Sad Eyed Blue Ridge Girl. Based now in Nashville, Amanda can lay claim to the Blue Ridge Girl moniker,

It looks like married life agrees with Danny Booth, who has been touring on bass this past four years with Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. He was wed back in August to Amanda Kerr, a fiddler and music teacher in northern

Pinecastle Records has signed Edgar Loudermilk to the label, with plans for a new album to be released next year. Of late, Edgar had been touring and recording with Dave Adkins in the Adkins & Loudermilk band, but both partners are

Gailanne Amundsen has been making a name for herself in bluegrass and old time music for much of her short life, winning fiddle competitions as a child in Florida, and more recently as a member of Jubal's Kin. Her musical efforts

Among the many interesting people we met this year at the World of Bluegrass convention were Damon Postle and Danny Bermel, a pair of doctoral students at the University of Georgia. They are in the process of developing pre-service teacher training in