Music

Can lightning strike twice? Rounder Records and Sony Picture Classics are hoping so as they plan the July 27 and 30 releases of the soundtrack and the new film, Get Low. It's a quirky, 1930s period piece set in the rural

Oddly enough, summer is the slow season for bluegrass news each year. All the bands are touring like crazy, but unless someone jumps ship, there isn't as much new information to share. So we plan to use this next little while

We wrote back in April about Nu-Blu, the terrific bluegrass band from North Carolina, when their most recent CD, Nights, was released. They had been caught in the crossfire when Pinecastle Records closed in February, and ended up releasing the

Here's a couple more good radio options to consider for today (7/21). At 11:00 a.m. (EDT) this morning, Donna Ulisse will be on Sirius-XM's Bluegrass Junction with Kyle Cantrell. She will be on the Track-By-Track program, playing through all the songs

July 2010 is a eventful month for the Galyean family of Virginia. In the first instance it is tinged with much sadness at the passing of Cullen Galyean. Secondly, on a much brighter note, it marks the release of the album

Have Bass Will Travel... That's the name of a clever YouTube video created by AKUS bass man Barry Bales, and of the video contest we are running on Bluegrass Today in conjunction with the recent release of his AcuTab bass

New County Grass is a new group from the bluegrass hotbed of Flint, Michigan. OK...  that's not fair, but as the guys themselves acknowledge, Flint is better known for automobile manufacturing (and Michael Moore) than it is for driving bluegrass

SoundArt Recordings has announced an early August release for a new project from Butch Baldassari and Van Manakas, Leavin' Tennessee, which was completed shortly before Butch succumbed to an aggressive brain cancer in 2009. The album features Butch on mandolin with

James Alan Shelton has served as lead guitarist with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys for the past 16 years, taking him all over the world with the good Doctor. Along the way, Shelton has released 10 recordings of

Marshall Wilborn is taking a leave of absence from his gig with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper to complete treatment for Lyme disease. He tells us that the treatment, which lasts 28 days, is going well. Marshall will be back with the