Music

Bryan Simpson of Cadillac Sky just shot us a note with news about one of the songs on their upcoming CD, Gravity's Our Enemy, set for an August 19 Skaggs Family release. It's not really a single release, but one of

AcuTab Publications has news of several new bluegrass instructional DVDs due during the summer and fall of 2008. Just completed shooting is a fiddle project with Mountain Heart's Jim Van Cleve which will go into editing shortly. Jim covered a number

Geez... It seems like everyone in bluegrass but me and Brance are heading for Europe this summer. Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe are in Holland and Norway this week with five shows scheduled. Wednesday July 9 - Turfschip, Nieuwkoop Thursday July 10th -

The Grascals sent along this photo from their appearance on the CBS Early Show this past Saturday (7/5), where they performed the title track from their upcoming CD, Keep On Walkin', due from Rounder on July 15. They asked us to

Back in March we shared a few words from Cadillac Sky mandolinist and vocalist Bryan Simpson as the band got started on their next CD. Well, it's all finished and Gravity's Our Enemy is set for an August 19 release on

Eclectic string band Old Crow Medicine Show has announced the release of two new recording projects in the next two months. Their next CD, Tennessee Pusher, is due on September 23 on Nettwerk Records, and a 3-song digital EP, Caroline,

Thanks go out to our friend Bill Evans, west coast banjoist and renowned instructor of the five string, for pointing us to this fine review of a free show by Cherryholmes in New York City's Madison Square Park this past

Well, that's the way she describes the release of her latest CD, Live, from Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands (Spruce & Maple Music SMM 2004). From the Bay Area of San Francisco, the highly rated fiddler and two-time International

I've found several occasions this past few years to offer high praise for Boston-based string band Crooked Still. Originally drawn to them by my interest in their high-profile instrumentalists, Greg Lizst on banjo and (then) cellist, Rushad Eggleston, I quickly

Rhonda Vincent fans can catch two of her new live performances online. CMT.com's Unplugged at Studio 330 features an episode with five live-in-the-studio songs and a number of interview clips with Rhonda. They play Gotta Start Somewhere, Good Thing Going, The