Close To Picture is a four track EP project from guitarists Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge, who have been touring together this summer. Eldridge is a progressive grasser, whose primary performance venue is Chris Thile's Punch Brothers. With the band on a
We all know about bluegrass, and have become accustomed more recently to jamgrass. But what about trashgrass? Well that's what Cincinnati's Rumpke Mountain Boys call their take on the music, and it served as the title of their debut CD in 2012.
Special project bands are sprouting all around bluegrass this year. The Masters of Bluegrass have been struttin' it old school with Bobby Osborne, Del McCoury, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury at festivals, and Sideline, featuring members of Mountain
Kentucky's Laurel River Line is set to release their second CD, On Down The Line, later this month and have a debut single to share in advance. Randy Jones, mandolinist with Lonesome River Band, produced the project which contains 13
A number of bluegrass acts have announced new representation this past few weeks. Appalachian musician and humorist Leroy Troy is now being booked by Hootenanny Publicity, run by Danny "Hootenanny" Clark, formerly with the International Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro, KY. Danny
Our Spanish bluegrass buddies, The Cubero Brothers (Los Hermanos Cubero), have released their latest album, Flor de canciones. Like their previous projects, it features brothers Roberto and Enrique Cubero performing their mix of traditional Iberian folk music with the mandolin and guitar techniques
Lonesome Day Records has announced the signing of Jeff Clair to the label, with a new project scheduled for next year. Clair's debut album, They Called Him Jesus, was released in late 2012. It was warmly greeted by fans of traditional
Shannon Turner is at RockyGrass this weekend in Lyons, CO and shared these images from the pre-festival workshops.
Was it coincidence or fate that brought James King and the Gibson Brothers together July 19 at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, sharing a stage and possibly a recording this coming winter? These back-to-back International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Emerging Artists
On this day …. On July 21, 1998, ace British mandolin player Andy Townend passed away in the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, after a short illness. He was aged 46. Born on January 12, 1952, he was a
