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West Virginia mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Rachel Burge is heading in to the studio next week with her band, Blue Dawning. They will start work on a debut band project, following up on Burge's stellar 2012 solo album, Don't You

Nathan Stanley and his grandfather, the great Ralph Stanley, are starting work on a new Gospel album. It will be produced under the auspices of Nathan's new music ministry, Nathan Stanley Ministries, and sponsored by a regional bank in his part of

Dave Adkins and Edgar Loudermilk both had pretty good gigs going when they chatted backstage at the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival earlier this year. They wrote a song together, then another, and a couple more after that. They sang and

North Carolina banjo picker Andy Lowe is preparing to release his first solo project, due around the first of December. The 29 year old has been performing regionally with Rockford Express and The Loose Cannons, and also served for a

Mountain Fever Records is releasing the first single today from an upcoming solo album from Dave Adkins. It’s a song that Adkins wrote, called Pike County Jail. The song, a full-throttle bluegrass take on crime and redemption, was prompted by the

The folks at A Simple Life magazine have called on a pair of noted bluegrass/old time musicians to help encapsulate the publication's wistful and nostalgic look at simpler times when lives were less stressful and crowded. A Simple Life is a

Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising are ending the year just as they started it... with a new album. In January they released their Lowground CD, and today sees the debut of Spending Every Christmas With You, their first holiday-themed project. The band

Folk Alliance International will include an instructional camp for instrumentalists as a part of its annual conference in 2014, hosted in Kansas City, MO next February 19-23. This will be a first for the organization, which supports and promotes all sorts

Billboard is reporting that Nickel Creek has recorded a new album, targeted for a Spring 2014 release on Nonesuch Records. The news came out as the trio featuring Chris Thile, Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins, reunited on Wednesday for a

Fans of Hot Rize will be delighted to learn that there is a new studio album in the offing. The CD will be the first by the legendary band in 10 years – and the first studio album since the release