Music

Janet Davis has released a new mandolin instructional package, The Ultimate Mandolin Songbook. Like its companion book, The Ultimate Banjo Songbook, this new volume contains 26 popular bluegrass songs and tunes in tab and standard notation, along with a pair

Special Consensus is back in Ireland, and founder/fearless leader Greg Cahill shares how their first day went. Ah... the carefree life of a touring musician! We left Chicago at 7:15pm and arrived in Dublin at 8:30am. The guys took a taxi

The Grascals' new CD isn't about food, it's about Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin. Nonetheless, The Grascals seem to be finding themselves around food a lot. The CD itself is released on the Grascal's new label BluGrascal Records, in association

Good news for Blue Highway fans. Tim Stafford tells us that a new album won't be long in coming. "The band has finished tracking all but a few vocal parts for its new project, titled Sounds of Home. We recorded again

We caught up yesterday with Phil Leadbetter, resonator guitarist with The Whites, and reso raconteur at large. He has spent quite a career in bluegrass, including lengthy stints sliding around with JD Crowe & the New South, Wildfire, and Grasstowne. Phil

The Peasall Sisters were thrust into the spotlight when they contributed to the soundtrack for the popular movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, providing the singing voices of George Clooney's daughters, the Wharvey Girls, in 2000. That was 10 years

Cherryholmes, who we have watched grow from a cute family band to top-level bluegrass entertainers in the past ten years, has announced that they are hanging it up this Spring. In an announcement cross-posted this afternoon on the Cherryholmes and Skaggs

We've posted before about appeals from artists to generate start-up capital, recording, or travel costs directly from their fans. It's so popular across all genres of creative activity that it has its own buzzword: crowdsourcing. Not only that, a number of

Valerie Smith and her producer, fiddler and vocalist Beck Buller take us for a visit through the facilities of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, where they recorded the tracks for their next two albums, Blame It On The Bluegrass. Next two

Last week we reported about the impending release of a new bluegrass CD by Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers. Martin has since made the title track available as a free download. The track is titled Rare Bird Alert. It's