Music

Before their days of Grammy-nominated releases for Rounder, Blue Highway released a trio of critically-acclaimed recordings for Rebel Records in the mid-to-late 1990s. Tim Stafford has related how the band was formed after his departure from Alison Krauss & Union

We had posted several weeks ago about an upcoming Skaggs Family Records project called Celebration Of Life, a two CD set recorded live at the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival to benefit the St. Jude Children"s Research Hospital in Memphis,

The second release of new Ralph Stanley recordings on Columbia is due on May 30, 2006, entitled A Distant Land To Roam - Songs Of The Carter Family. The new project was produced by T. Bone Burnett, whose collaborations

Last week, All Things Considered on NPR carried a feature on County Records' 3 CD reissues containing field recordings of clawhammer banjo music. Originally released on vinyl in the mid-60s, these recordings were heralded by folklorists, and celebrated by fans

Fiery fiddler, and three-time IBMA award winner, Michael Cleveland's new CD, Let 'Er Go Boys! is out on Rounder Records. It features 17 tracks, with guest artists Vince Gill, Del McCoury, Dan Tyminski, Larry Sparks, Tim O'Brien, Jeff White, Audie

We recently told you about the upcoming June release of John Cowan's new CD, New Tattoo. At the time there were no audio samples available online. But recently John's Myspace page has been updated with some audio from the new

May 23rd has been set as the release date for Rhonda Vincent's new CD, All American Bluegrass Girl. The members of her band, The Rage, accompany her on the CD along with session musicians, and ledgends Bobby Osborne and Dolly

Tuesday's edition of the Harrisonburg, VA Daily News Record featured an article on Eastern Mennonite University student (and Harrisonburg resident) Reed Jones, who plays guitar with Billie Renee & Cumberland Gap. They took first prize in the 2006 SPBGMA International

From time to time we posted updates to let you know of bluegrass artists who have a myspace page. You can find our previous posts with info on bluegrass artist MySpace pages here. We've also found a couple more and

Fans of the award-winning bluegrass group IIIrd Tyme Out can now interact with one anther and get up-to-date info on the band's activities on their Yahoo Groups site. There is no cost to join the group, and members can read