• Dailey Vincent band signs with Rounder

    It has just been announced that The Dailey Vincent Band (Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent) have signed with Rounder Records to release their debut, self-titled CD in January 2008. In addition to Jamie and Darrin, the band features Jeff Parker on

  • Grascals on with John Boy & Billy

    Updated from an earlier posting... re-updated 2:25 p.m. to correct some errors. Tomorrow, September 28, The Grascals will be guests on The Big Show, more commonly known as The John Boy & Billy Show. It airs from 6:00-10:00 a.m. (eastern)

  • Dailey Vincent Band preview at Fan Fest

    Brance told us back in February about the imminent debut of The Dailey Vincent Band, jointly fronted by former Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver singer Jamie Dailey, and long time Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder singer Darrin Vincent. Though they won't start

  • Blue Sky Boys and Joe Green downloads

    In their ongoing effort to keep their back catalog alive online, Rebel/County Records has reissued two more classic LPs as download-only releases. The Blue Sky Boys are such well-established icons in early country music that even those with little or no

  • Essential banjo licks DVD

    Ross Nickerson has released his newest banjo instructional DVD, Essential Banjo Licks, with more than 100 common banjo phrases every banjo player needs to know. It is intended to offer useful information for players starting at a beginner's level, with many

  • Country Current holding auditions

    The US Navy Band, Country Current, has announced an opening for the position of pedal steel guitar player in the country line up of the band. More pertinent to bluegrass music though, is the news that Master Chief Musician Wayne

  • Time Life releases another bluegrass boxed set

    Our British correspondent, Richard Thompson, has an overview of a CD collection that was released back in August '07. Time Life has released a further collection of bluegrass recordings. Classic Bluegrass Collection is a compilation featuring three CDs of well-known bluegrass

  • John Lowell interview on ukbluegrass.com

    Our friends at ukbluegrass.com have recently published a lengthy piece on guitarist, singer and songwriter John Lowell. John will be on the faculty of the 2008 Sore Fingers bluegrass camp in England, where he will teach songwriting. The article covers a

  • Haggard bluegrass session video online

    McCoury Music has now posted an online video of the first recording session for his upcoming release, The Bluegrass Sessions, which we posted about a few days ago. The video shows Hag recording Holding Things Together with Aubrey Haynie, Marty Stuart,

  • Tim Graves: Prodigal Son

    Prodigal Son is the new release from Tim Graves & Cherokee. The CD takes its name from the fifth track on the disc, a tune penned by Daryl Mosley (who also wrote the liner notes). If you are a fan of