Music

Native Ground Music has released The Bluegrass Gospel Songbook, with words, music and chords for more than 100 gospel favorites. In addition to the lyrics and melodies, this new volume includes histories on many of the songs, an overview of how

Bluegrass fans immediately recognize the name Bill Yates for his many years as a member of The Country Gentlemen. Bill played bass and sang harmony with the band through several line up changes, staying with Charlie Waller for 20 years,

Katherine Cole reviewed Chris Thile's latest CD, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, for Voice Of America in a broadcast on November 15. There isn't much in the way of news in her review, and readers of Bluegrass

Wildfire guitarist/vocalist Robert Hale is working on a solo project, according to the Wildfire web site. They don't say much about the material or the guest artists, except to say that many of Robert's long time musical friends and collaborators

Our sources tell us that Larry Keel is in the studio this week with his band Natural Bridge, working on a new bluegrass CD. The CD is a mixture of familiar bluegrass numbers, like Groundspeed, and original compositions by various

To help promote her newly-released Christmas CD, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, Rhonda Vincent has launched an online contest with a 12 Days Of Christmas theme. This is really a series of 12 contests, involving trivia questions, each running for 2

There was a review of Bradley Walker's debut release, Highway Of Dreams, featured on yesterday's edition of Fresh Air, carried on most NPR affiliate stations. The review by Ken Tucker focuses almost entirely on Bradley as a country singer, and discusses

From Ronnie Reno, via J.D. Rhynes, who posted on the California Bluegrass Association web site, comes word that Merle Haggard is working on a bluegrass project. That CBA news posting elicited a response from Elida Ickes on the CBA message board

We just got word from our friends at Pinecastle Records with the street dates for two of their upcoming releases which have been discussed here of late. Jack Cooke's Sittin' On Top Of The World, and The Circuit Riders' Let The

The folks at Sugar Hill Records have posted a hilarious slide show of photos on their MySpace blog taken during last week's Halloween Party at The Station Inn in Nashville. The show featured The Infamous Stringdusters, and the photos show them