Music

I had a chance to catch up last week with banjo monster Jim Mills, and was immediately curious about what he has been doing since leaving Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder last summer. Jim said that he has been enjoying the

We have just learned that banjo pioneer JD Crowe took a fall last night as he was stepping off the bus en route to the Joe Val festival in Framingham, MA. A quick trip to the hospital revealed that his

Ed Helms has gotten our attention before when he did a little picking on The Office. He's got a new movie heading to the big screen, and again he'll be injecting some music into the role. NPR invited Helms into

Shannon Slaughter has been one of my favorite bluegrass guitarists since I first met him in the mid-1990s. At the time, he had just finished a stint with Lost & Found, and had joined Larry Stephenson's band. It was immediately obvious

We have lauded several times the efforts of Rebel and County Records in getting their deep back catalog into digital distribution. They have been recording bluegrass and old time music since the early 1960s, and have several hundred titles between

Darren Beachley and Barry Scott stirred up a buzz when they announced in December 2010 that they would be joining forces as the Beachley & Scott Band. The two Quicksilver alums have put together a fine band with Shayne Bartley on

We heard yesterday from Chris Luquette, guitarist with Northern Departure, a young bluegrass band based in Seattle. They were chosen this past weekend as finalists in a music competition called Sound Off!, or as it is also known, the Battle of

Fellow bluegrass blogger Ted Lehmann has published a lengthy and detailed review of Help My Brother, the new CD from The Gibson Brothers, due February 22 from Compass Records. Ted goes song-by-song through the album, and includes more than a dozen

March will be a big month for Rounder Records. They have new projects coming from Charlie Sizemore, Steve Martin, Sierra Hull... and Larry Sparks. Sparks, our current godfather of traditional bluegrass, is at the height of his career, enjoying later in

What a great album title! One Foot In The Honky Tonk is the name of the upcoming CD release from James Reams and the Barnstormers, due shortly on Reams' Mountain Redbird label. Though based now in the bluegrass mecca of Brooklyn