Music

As promised, here is the new single from Mountain Faith. It's the "sort of" title track from their upcoming Mountain Fever release, Blue, which is due in November. Feeling Blue is a somewhat different sound for the band, with an old

Four years ago, just before her 40th birthday, Kelly’s voice gave out near the end of a weekly gig with her band, Acoustic Endeavors. She’d being singing for years and had sore throats and other vocal issues over the years, so

Mountain Faith has announced that Cory Piatt is the new mandolinist with the group. Cory is an exquisitely talented young picker, not yet 20 years old, who already has a professional resume most musicians would envy. He's performed and recorded with Kenny

As an instructor in ETSU's Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program, and having taught several students privately as well, I'm well aware of the struggle many would-be students face when trying to learn to play a musical instrument.

Wrinkled Records has released audio from their upcoming Mac Wiseman album, Songs From My Mother's Hand. Due September 23, the record includes newly-recorded versions of old country and folk songs for which his mother took down the words by hand,

Jonathan Bucker had several pieces of news about Chosen Road when we caught up recently. He and the band have a new album, Love’s Purest Light, released this Summer on Poor Mountain Records. It's their first studio project in three years, featuring

Rebel Records has released a second single from the upcoming Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers CD, Another Day From Life. This one is Now The Summer's Gone, written by Barkley Davis, a young bluegrass writer from Indiana with a pedigree.

Kyle Murphy has been announced as the new fiddler with Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome. He's a native Californian who grew up playing both fiddle and mandolin with his dad and sister in The Murphy Family Band. Murphy came east to study

The International Bluegrass Music Museum will continue to host its annual mandolin camp at IBMM headquarters in Owensboro, KY under the direction of Mike Compton. Some confusion has arisen owing to Mike moving his Bill Monroe mandolin camp to Nashville, which had

There's a truism in the music world that no part time band ever stays that way for long. Even if all the members agree that the effort will take a back seat to careers or family, if the music is good,