Music

I always enjoy hearing a new band, especially if they're good. I discovered Hard Ryde a while back and I've been listening to their CD, Expressed, for several weeks and thought I'd share it with our readers here on Bluegrass

Cadillac Sky's recent performance on the WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour is now available online. WoodSongs is hosted weekly by folksinger Michael Jonathon, and is carried by more than 450 radio stations worldwide. You can choose to watch streaming video of

In the midst of the inescapable media coverage last week marking the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, here's a story you might not have seen. Bluegrass singer/songwriter Shawn Camp and rockabilly singer Billy Burnette have joined forces to

Chris Thile and The Tensions Mountain Boys have announced a string of three dates at the fabled Station Inn in Nashville next month. They will be there September 21-23, starting at 9:00 p.m. (CT) each night, with an admission charge

Our friends at BluegrassCountry.org have launched a new feature as part of their 40th Anniversary celebration of bluegrass programming on WAMU. It's called Musician Tips and will be a weekly audio segment with prominent bluegrass artists sharing advice on a

A track from King Wilkie's latest CD, Low Country Suite, has been selected as the Discovery Download in iTunes for this week. Any iTunes subscriber can get the track (Wrecking Ball) at no charge starting tomorrow (8/21) through next Monday

As they had promised earlier this summer, The Infamous Stringdusters have some new live tracks for free download on their MySpace page. The new tunes are This Weary Heart and 40 West, offering a fine chance to hear this young

The Donkeys, from Ivan Rosenberg and Billy Cardine, may not be the only dobro CD to open with a banjo duet, but it's the first one I've found to do so. OK... so it's not really a dobro CD, but

The Grascals have announced a promotional partnership with Mayberry's Finest, a new brand of Southern-style canned and packaged foods whose marketing is based on the ever-popular Andy Griffith Show. The band will advertise the products during their live shows, in

Cherryholmes will be featured on Opry Live this Saturday, during the televised portion of The Grand Ole Opry broadcast on GAC TV. The show airs at 8:00 p.m. (ET) on Saturday (8/18), and again that same evening at midnight. It repeats