Newly signed with Engelhardt Music Group, California bluegrass prodigies Crying Uncle have released a single, I'll Be Here Either Way. This talented young group was originally noticed for their fiery instrumental abilities, but they are also adept songwriters and singers, as
On Saturday, January 4, 2025, the bluegrass community, particularly reso-guitar enthusiasts, lost a beloved friend, Bobby Wolfe. The North Carolina musician and luthier was 94 years old. During his building career (1981-2017,) Wolfe constructed 234 resonator guitars with 92 of
Attention songwriters: two of the major bluegrass songwriting contests have opened their submissions for the 2025 events. Both the Podunk Songwriters Contest, put on by the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival in Goshen, CT, and the Hazel Dickens Song Contest, managed
Nu-Blu debuts their new music video today, a thoughtful, slice of life presentation of their current single with Turnberry Records, When It Rains, She Pours. It's something of a departure for the husband-and-wife duo that leads Nu-Blu, Daniel and Carolyn Routh,
For her next single, singer, songwriter, fiddler, and bandleader Becky Buller has assembled a group of Nashville superpickers on a twice-removed cover from the 1970s. She enlisted Molly Tuttle on guitar, Sierra Hull on mandolin, Alison Brown on banjo, and
Buddy Melton, fiddler, vocalist, and founding member of perennial bluegrass headliners Balsam Range, has announced his departure from the group. Since the band's founding in 2007 by five friends living in Haywood County, NC - just west of Asheville - Melton
Tennessee bass player Roy Beck, known to friends and family as Uncle Roy, died on December 31, 2024. He was 62 years of age. Roy was born in Indiana, where his interest in bass playing was nurtured going to see music
Billy Blue Records is out of the gate quick this new year with a new single from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, the second from their upcoming all-gospel project. Even Better When You Listen, written by Rick Lang and Mark
Boston banjo player, singer, and writer Max Wareham has a new single, taken from his upcoming debut album, DAGGOMIT. If Max looks familiar, he's been playing banjo for the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band of late, and we featured him in 2022
Kevin Prater gets 2025 started with the first personnel change of the year, bringing in Codie Allen on banjo to fill the spot vacated by Bailey Moore. At the same time, Larry Cadle has come aboard on bass. Prater tells us
