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Banjo player Mark Delaney has returned to the spot he occupied with Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass for more than a decade, after nearly two years away from the band. Mark stepped away more than a year ago to care

This remembrance of banjo player Reed Martin, who died on September 30 in Potomac, MD after a long stint with Alzheimer’s Disease, is a contribution from his friends and family. He was 78 years of age. Reed Martin was one of

Pinecastle Records has a new single from beloved veteran bluegrass guitarist and vocalist Jim Hurst. It's a song written by Virginia songwriter Scott Patrick called One More Lonesome Train. Jim has been performing in the bluegrass world since the 1980s, dipping

In recent years we've seen the emergence of songwriter recordings as a common occurrence in bluegrass music. Songwriters hiring musicians and singers to produce radio-ready tracks as opposed to demos, and releasing them to the public instead of circulating them

Billy Blue Records has a new single from Carson Peters & Iron Mountain going out to radio tomorrow, and we are delighted to premiere it for our readers here today. It's a song Carson wrote with Jerry and Eric Marshall called

Good friends and fellow songwriters Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz have a new album, Wall Dogs, set for release this Friday, October 18. Like their previous duo effort, Lost Voices, from 2023, it includes songs the two have written together

After several years of requests from fans, The Kody Norris Show has finally released a recording of The Auctioneer, a classic country song from 1956 that is always a big number for Kody when they perform it live. When we

CMH Records has dug deep into their vaults for another classic album of yesteryear, and pulled out Arthur Smith and Don Reno's 1979 record, Feudin' Again, for a digital reissue. The label tells us that this release, set for this

We've written before about the interesting and innovative old time duo, Hills of Belgium, from, you guessed it... Belgium. There is much that is incongruous in that previous sentence. Appalachian old time music from Belgium? Yes, indeed. They call it "mountain

An obscure Ralph Stanley recording from 1983 has delivered one of the most recorded bluegrass songs of the past few years. A Robin Built A Nest on Daddy's Grave, written by Edna Sykes, has been cut recently by Tommy Brown,