It's fairly obvious that bluegrass is a crowded field these days. New bands, old bands, solo performers and varied ensembles — all compete for attention and, in the process, make music that really matters Balsam Range is right up there with those artists that are tops in the field, evidenced by the fact that the [...]
Tomorrow is release day for Moxie and Mettle, the new album from western North Carolina bluegrass heroes Balsam Range, and Mountain Home Music is offering our readers a sneak peek at another track this morning. It's a new song by an unknown writer called Tonight I'm Heading South, featuring mandolinist Darren Nicholson on lead vocal. While them [...]
We wrote on Monday about the disastrous flooding in middle Tennessee, and the efforts of locals, including bluegrass artist Daryl Mosley, to raise funds to assist those left homeless from substantial rainfall on August 21. Another set of storms caused serious damage in western North Carolina as well, swamping the Blue Ridge mountain town of [...]
Marc Pruett, life long banjo player extraordinaire and founding member of Balsam Range, suffered a severe fall at a show in California earlier this week. The band was performing at the Redlands Bowl in Redlands, CA and he fell stepping down from the stage right before sound check. Pruett suffered a broken left wrist, with additional [...]
Here is a year end run down of the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2020. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins to determine the songs played most frequently over the last twelve months. We will publish the 2020 Top 30 charts for Gospel and [...]
A new music video debuts today from Balsam Range for their current Mountain Home single, Grit and Grace. It's something of a departure for the band, a very personal story of grappling with what life can throw your way, yet finding ways to cope, recover, and ultimately, triumph over great difficulties. Coming to the band [...]
Mountain Home Music has released a sneak peak video for their latest single from Balsam Range, Grit and Grace. Interestingly, this song is a contribution from fiddle and vocalist Buddy Melton's mother, Ann, who wrote it along with Milan Miller and Beth Husband. It tells the story of surviving through hard times, using your own [...]
Darren Nicholson, Balsam Range mandolinist, vocalist and songwriter, will be featured this evening in a solo livestream performance from White Horse Live in Black Mountain, NC. Since COVID-19 shutdowns have restricted the ability on venues and nightspots to open, White Horse has been focused on finding a way to keep the music playing. Seeing his [...]
Balsam Range hasn't had a song on the charts for several weeks. Must be time for a new single. And just like that... voila! The boys from Asheville are back indeed with a new release, The Richest Man, which shares the age old lesson that you can't take it with you when you go. Kicking [...]
Whoa... stuff just got real! The ongoing feud between bluegrass touring artists Balsam Range and The Cleverlys just ramped up a notch. Digger Cleverly, leader of his witty family band, has leveled a serious allegation against his buddies from western North Carolina. In this video released today, Digger accuses Balsam Range of squatting in their [...]
It's fairly obvious that bluegrass is a crowded field these days. New bands, old bands, solo performers and varied ensembles — all compete for attention and, in the process, make music that really matters Balsam Range is right up there with those artists that are tops in the field, evidenced by the fact that the [...] 
Tomorrow is release day for Moxie and Mettle, the new album from western North Carolina bluegrass heroes Balsam Range, and Mountain Home Music is offering our readers a sneak peek at another track this morning. It's a new song by an unknown writer called Tonight I'm Heading South, featuring mandolinist Darren Nicholson on lead vocal. While them [...] 
We wrote on Monday about the disastrous flooding in middle Tennessee, and the efforts of locals, including bluegrass artist Daryl Mosley, to raise funds to assist those left homeless from substantial rainfall on August 21. Another set of storms caused serious damage in western North Carolina as well, swamping the Blue Ridge mountain town of [...] 
Marc Pruett, life long banjo player extraordinaire and founding member of Balsam Range, suffered a severe fall at a show in California earlier this week. The band was performing at the Redlands Bowl in Redlands, CA and he fell stepping down from the stage right before sound check. Pruett suffered a broken left wrist, with additional [...] 
Here is a year end run down of the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2020. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins to determine the songs played most frequently over the last twelve months. We will publish the 2020 Top 30 charts for Gospel and [...] 
A new music video debuts today from Balsam Range for their current Mountain Home single, Grit and Grace. It's something of a departure for the band, a very personal story of grappling with what life can throw your way, yet finding ways to cope, recover, and ultimately, triumph over great difficulties. Coming to the band [...] 
Mountain Home Music has released a sneak peak video for their latest single from Balsam Range, Grit and Grace. Interestingly, this song is a contribution from fiddle and vocalist Buddy Melton's mother, Ann, who wrote it along with Milan Miller and Beth Husband. It tells the story of surviving through hard times, using your own [...] 
Darren Nicholson, Balsam Range mandolinist, vocalist and songwriter, will be featured this evening in a solo livestream performance from White Horse Live in Black Mountain, NC. Since COVID-19 shutdowns have restricted the ability on venues and nightspots to open, White Horse has been focused on finding a way to keep the music playing. Seeing his [...] 
Balsam Range hasn't had a song on the charts for several weeks. Must be time for a new single. And just like that... voila! The boys from Asheville are back indeed with a new release, The Richest Man, which shares the age old lesson that you can't take it with you when you go. Kicking [...] 
Whoa... stuff just got real! The ongoing feud between bluegrass touring artists Balsam Range and The Cleverlys just ramped up a notch. Digger Cleverly, leader of his witty family band, has leveled a serious allegation against his buddies from western North Carolina. In this video released today, Digger accuses Balsam Range of squatting in their [...] 