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We were fortunate to catch up with Balsam Range the morning after their big wins at Thursday night's IBMA Awards. They talked about that, and everything else they're up to these days. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="60287"]
The 2014 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion continued Saturday with another beautiful day. Last year’s Saturday schedule was marred by heavy rains early in the day, but this year brought 80 degree temps and nearly cloudless skies. Thanks to Alane Anno Photography, we are able to share a few moments from Saturday’s festival with you. [...]
Frank Baker was on hand when the 2014 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival was held earlier this month. Here's his first of several galleries.
Last Friday saw two new Bluegrass Today radio airplay charts, with both our weekly and monthly charts hitting on the same day. By examining them both, you can get a snapshot view of what was played on bluegrass radio the previous week on dozens of stations, and a more tempered look at what has stayed hot [...]
Milan Miller started learning guitar around the age of five. Guitar is his primary instrument, but he also plays the mandolin, bass, piano, and "just enough banjo and Dobro to get myself into trouble." Miller's song catalog includes such Balsam Range staples as Calloway County Flood, Burning Georgia Down (written with Mark Bumgarner), Caney Fork [...]
This early report from the 2014 edition of the Red, White & Bluegrass festival last week is a contribution from Jessica Boggs, an enthusiastic bluegrass fan in East Tennessee. Sweltering heat couldn't keep fans from coming out to the first day of Red, White & Bluegrass in Morganton, NC this past Thursday. Although temperatures hovered [...]
Over the past few years, North Carolina’s Balsam Range has established itself as one of the most consistent hit-producing and award-winning bands in bluegrass music. Now, coming off of the success of 2012’s Papertown (last year’s IBMA Album of the Year), the five-man group has released their fifth album, the aptly-named Five. The record continues [...]
Balsam Range has offered this clever video to introduce the opening track of their upcoming album, Five. It shows the band's work on the song Moon Over Memphis, starting with them working up an arrangement in the studio, through to them tracking the cut, and finishing with the final result, against images of the guys on [...]
...back Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen This band just keeps getting better. The unit’s debut release for Compass Records, On The Edge, is still getting plenty of airplay, and a pair of IBMA awards (banjo player of the year for Mike Munford and a Momentum Award for guitarist Chris Luquette) have helped raise its profile [...]
Darren Nicholson, mandolinist with Balsam Range, has a new solo project to start 2014. Things Left Undone finds Darren with some of the top names in bluegrass on 12 tracks of new and classic bluegrass, and a pair of bonus tracks with his own Darren Nicholson Band. Assisting are Rhonda Vincent, Carl Jackson, Tim Surrett, [...]
