Music

Certain future supergroup The Boxcars have announced that their self-titled, debut album will be released by Crossroads/Mountain Home Records on October 19, 2010. The band consists of Adam Steffey on mandolin, Ron Stewart on banjo/fiddle, John Bowman on fiddle/banjo, Keith Garrett

We posted a few weeks back about the top-secret Tut Taylor tribute album released July 13 by E1 Music. Entitled Southern Filibuster: A Tribute To Tut Taylor, the record features 14 top reso guitarists, each contributing a new version of

Another new young band! Monroeville has emerged from the dust-up that saw the members of Second Wind leave Barry Scott en masse in July. They have been active only a week, but much is expected from this talented bunch of pickers. Despite

Born July 5, 1930, Mitch Jayne passed away Monday, August 2, 2010 in Columbia, MO, after being diagnosed with cancer only recently. In the 1960's, The Dillards were introduced to a larger American audience as the Darlin' Family on the Andy

Mountain Fever Records has signed No One You Know to the label, and will release their new album, Calm Before The Storm on August 31. The West Virginia band features Rachel Burge on mandolin, Don Anderson on bass, Ramie Bennett on

Rural Rhythm Records recently added Rodney Dillard & The Dillard Band to their roster of artists. The band's new CD, I Wish Life Was Like Mayberry, will be released on the Rural Rhythm label this September (9/28/2010). Rodney has a long

Barry Scott is on the hunt for a mandolin or guitarist who sings high tenor for his recently reformed edition of Second Wind. Scott and his entire band parted ways not long ago, but Barry has assembled a new group, with

Rural Rhythm Records has announced August 24 as the release date for the debut album from The Bartley Brothers, Hit The Road. The record will feature 8 new songs by guitarist Rick Bartley, whose material you have heard on recent

Banjo picker Tim Davis and mandolinist Matt Hiser have collaborated on a new album of bluegrass instrumentals called Flying High. Other than the title cut, written by Hiser, it's a set of tunes that should be familiar to bluegrass listeners, though

Country Standard Time uses the recent release of their latest CD, Wildwood, as the springboard for a lengthy piece about alt-bluegrass road warriors Chatham County Line. The article by Brian Baker, conducted largely as an interview with Chatham County Line guitarist/vocalist