Music

  • King Wilkie asks for submissions

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    King Wilkie is asking fans to submit artwork, songs, poems, videos... anything they might be inspired to create based on the characters featured on their upcoming CD, King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers. They ask that the various fan

  • Elvis Costello welcomes bluegrass

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    Elvis Costello last recorded an acoustic album in 1986. On June 2, 2009 he is set to release another, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett, recorded in Nashville in three days, and features a

  • Video debut from The Doerfels

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    Will The Doerfels be the next young family band to leave a mark on the bluegrass world? Like many other bluegrass family acts before them, the band is composed of a group of talented siblings, but they differ from the template

  • 3TO tour report – episode 2

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    Steve Dilling has agreed to share the ups and downs, in and outs of a long IIIrd Tyme Out road trip with our readers. They will be traveling from coast to coast, and back again, this first two weeks of

  • Songwriter Profile – John Pennell

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    This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. John Pennell started playing bluegrass in Arizona while he was in school at Arizona

  • Two new fiddle DVDs from Homespun

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    Homespun Video has released two new DVDs for new students of traditional American fiddle music. Both are taught by Jim Wood, a five time Tennessee fiddle champ, noted performer and teacher, and organizer/arranger for The Tennessee Fiddle Orchestra. Both DVDs are

  • ‘Dusters home movie

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    Chris Pandolfi, the talented banjo player with The Infamous Stringdusters, has created a clever video promotion for the band's upcoming show at The Belcourt Theatre in Nashville on April 30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AieKOnzixYY

  • Lost & Found – Love, Lost and Found

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    Living here in southwestern Virginia, the musical legacy of the Lost & Found is almost a palpable entity in the bluegrass community. Their 35 year career has influenced players, songwriters and performers worldwide, but their impact on the vibrant bluegrass

  • Doyle Lawson marks another milestone

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    Doyle Lawson marked April 1, 2009 as his 30th Anniversary as a band leader. That was the date in 1979 when he rehearsed his first band, Doyle Lawson & Foxfire, which soon was changed to Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. That seminal