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The August issue of Guitar Player magazine has bluegrass music's own Rob Ickes right there on the cover, where you'll more commonly find a metalhead with a threatening grimace. You can find the magazine on newsstands across the US, and

Jesse Brock is ready to make the leap from sideman to band leader. While he’s working on a solo project, he’s also polishing plans to start not one but two bands focusing on bluegrass and acoustic music. This fall, the mandolin

Recently we have posted news about B.J. and Skip Cherryholmes joining forces as Cherryholmes Brothers, and then that B.J. would be filling in on fiddle with Daily & Vincent while their regular fiddle man, Jesse Stockman, was recovering from a

Milo Farineau caught Béla Fleck & The Flecktones yesterday (8/7) at the NTELOS Pavilion in Charlottesville, VA. As always, he sent along some brilliant images.

Tom Adams has published an ebook of banjo tab transcriptions from Fired Up, the latest album by Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper. The tabs are based on the playing of crackerjack picker Jessie Baker who tracked the record with Michael, but

Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road have chosen Jason Wheeler to play banjo with the group following four months of auditions. Jason hails from Radford, VA and had performed previously with with Travers Chandler and Avery County, and a number of regional

This review of the Travelin' McCourys' set at Podunk comes from Dick Bowden, who we hope will become one of our new correspondents when we launch our expanded site later this year. He will post under the name, "The Old

On Friday night, while Vince Gill was playing a gig in the Washington D.C. suburbs for $110 a ticket, Norman Wright was finishing up a shift at his day job and doing some work on his son’s car before making

A first single from the upcoming Rebel release for Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice, The Heart Of A Song, can now be heard online. Junior hopes the new CD will be as well-received as his 2010 album, Heartaches and Dreams, which

Bluegrass singer, songwriter, guitarist and band leader Wayne Taylor is now at home and recovering nicely after being hospitalized last week with an acute intestinal condition. Taylor heads his own group, Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa, and is well-remembered for his many