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I gave a teaser last week about my pick for this week’s Album Of The Week: Marty Stuart’s acoustic album, Busy Bee Café. It features guest work by some true legends in our industry. Earl Scruggs, Carl Jackson, Jerry Douglas, Alan O’Bryant,

Troy Engle is not just a crack correspondent for Bluegrass Today, and an experienced Nashville producer and engineer. He's also a talented bluegrass picker, singer and songwriter who has spent a good bit of his life as a touring sideman

On top of announcing a new band member yesterday, Claire Lynch also made audio available for a new song online. It's Heaven's Light, written with Steve Sheehan, which will be included on a Christmas project of hers in 2012. A lovely

Claire Lynch has welcomed a new member into her group. Bryan McDowell has come aboard to play mandolin and fiddle, and help with the harmony singing. He steps in for Jason Thomas, who has been with Claire since 2007, and is

Little Did They Know is latest Christmas single from the Rural Rhythm Christian label. It was written by IBMA-nominated songwriter Rick Lang, and produced by Stephen Mougin. The track features vocals by his wife Jana Mougin, formerly lead singer with the popular

Rockin' Acoustic Circus has a new look, and a new ZIP code. The popular Oklahoma band has moved to the Nashville area, sans their cello-playing, shoe-echewing singer Emma Hardin and, as we reported earlier, their founding mentor and chaperone, Rick Morton. It

Tributes to Bill Monroe continue into the new year with the January 31, 2012 release by ace guitarist Tony Rice, The Bill Monroe Collection (Rounder Records). The material, consisting of 14 songs and instrumentals by Monroe, was recorded by Rice in a

On this day in 1983  …… On December 5, 1983, The Traditional Grass was formed. Joe Mullins, banjo player for The Traditional Grass,  retells the history of the group  ….. “We worked a Flea Market in downtown Dayton, Ohio, and it was a

We caught up with Jim Hurst over the weekend, and he shared news about a new recording - welcome news to the many fans of this richly-awarded, highly-virtuosic guitarist. "Intrepid is in the final stages of release, and should be available

Robert F. Rook Jr., better known in bluegrass music circles as Bobby Diamond, passed away at his home in York, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, September 22, 2011. He was 78 years old. Born May 16, 1933, in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, a son of