Music

The Nashville flooding of early May may have receded from the forefront of many people's minds, but for Stuart “Stubob” Myrick, bus driver for The Grascals, it is seared into his memory. Stubob was featured recently on eTrucker.com, where he shared

Jan de Mooy has sent us another fine collection of photos he took during the recent European World of Bluegrass in Voorthuizen, Netherlands. He had sent along a nice gallery from EWOB which we published after the festivals in 2009

After 14 years holding down the banjo spot with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Jim Mills is leaving the band after this week. Jim has been with Skaggs almost since the very beginning of Ricky's full-time return to bluegrass music. He

Dierks Bentley's next CD, Up On The Ridge, is due out next week on Capitol Records. It has garnered a great deal of music media attention, and not primarily because he has multiple #1 hits on country radio and two

Pete Wernick, aka Dr. Banjo, and his lovely wife Joan will be headed to Russia this summer to participate in the Russia-America Bluegrass Jamboree in July. This is the first event of its kind, being organized in part by the Consulate

Vermont banjo picker Gordon Stone has a well-earned reputation for melding the 3 finger banjo style with other idioms, among them jazz and African folk music. He has toured and recorded widely, but has not yet attained the sort of

Speaking of Swedish bluegrass... G2, the world-traveling bluegrassers from Sweden, will soon be winging their way westward to the USA, where they will take up residence for the summer. They have shows booked all across the country, starting with the Father's

Bubba Chandler, former guitarist and vocalist with Lost and Found, is back at it with a new CD, Somebody To Sing To. It includes 6 of his original songs and a number of remakes of classics he sang with L&F. He

Here's the latest episode in The Farewell Drifters' video track-by-track series, created to introduce the music from their upcoming CD, Yellow Tag Mondays. Last week I accused them of a Beatlesque flair in their original song, Sunnyside Drive, and looky here...

A third single from the latest Chris Jones & The Night Drivers CD is being released to radio today through Airplay Direct. The song is What You Do, yet another example of Jone's trademark style: clever songwriting with a relaxed vocal