Music

Reuters reported last night that Steve Martin has landed on the Billboard 200 this week. Martin has not had an album chart since his 1981 LP The Steve Martin Brothers. That LP featured comedy cuts on side one, with banjo

Noted bluegrass songwriter Mark "Brink" Brinkman is profiled in today's edition of The Columbus Dispatch. The focus of the piece is a new song of Brink's, With Love from Normandy, which he had performed at a Memorial Day celebration this past

I've known The Infamous Stringdusters' banjoist Chris Pandolfi and his music for the past 6 years. Over that time I've seen him develop musically and professionally into one of the brightest lights in the modern banjo world. In fact, before I

The news (here and here) this morning out of Georgia is that the First Family of Bluegrass has decided to call it quits. The Lewis Family has been playing Bluegrass and Gospel music for over half a century, but with family

Or is that Tim and Steve? Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford, two of the most widely-recorded songwriters in bluegrass today, are collaborating on a new CD for Pinecastle Records. It will feature 14 songs that the pair have written together,

To help celebrate the release of their new CD, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, the band is partnering with Bluegrass Today to host a Father's Day photo contest. The second track on the CD is Me and Dad, a lovely

Chris Jones and his band The Night Drivers have been in the Rec Room studio in Nashville (Ben Surratt engineering) wrapping up their first band project in 8 years. It will be the first full bluegrass studio release since Ned

Donna Ulisse's recent studio visit with Kyle Cantrell for the taping of his popular Bluegrass Junction show Track-By-Track will be broadcast for the first time on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:00am. EST. Ulisse and Cantrell discussed and played all thirteen

Colorado's Palmer Divide is set to release a new CD, Shenandoah Train, on June 2. This will be their fourth recording project since the band was formed in 2004 with the goal of highlighting their original compositions and arrangements. The band

Bluegrass crooner Josh Williams has just finished work on his third solo project for Pinecastle Records. The album is tentatively titled Down Home, for a Carl Jackson song Josh sings on the CD, with a release date anticipated later this summer.