Bradly Parsons to Chosen Road
Hard working bluegrass gospel group Chosen Road has announced a change in personnel. Josh Hicks, their banjo player for the past three years, is leaving the band to travel with his wife to South Korea to serve as missionaries. Guitarist and band leader Jonathan Buckner shared that he and his bandmates offer Josh their full […]
Lazy John from Hillary Klug’s Dancing Fiddler
Hillary Klug, also known as the Dancing Fiddler, has been quietly making a name for herself over the past several years online. By quietly, I mean outside the traditional channels for achieving notoriety in music, as the volume of her impact on social media has been anything but quiescent. From her familiar look, attired in […]
Knee Deep in Bluegrass drops for Ashby Frank
Knee Deep in Bluegrass is a Terry Baucom banjo instrumental through and through, complete with the punchy pull-offs, perfect timing, and powerful tone that are so undeniably the Duke of Drive’s. Ashby Frank re-cut the Bauc original with his own jamming style and twist-on-traditional vibe. His new recording for Mountain Home Music kicks off with […]
Steve Martin and Alison Brown introduce Bluegrass Radio
Today, renowned comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin releases his new single, Bluegrass Radio, with banjo maestro Alison Brown on Compass Records, and we are happy to introduce the song in this detailed interview they did with our very own Terry Herd. Terry recorded this a few weeks back for his syndicated radio program, […]
Cynthia Sayer works to connect 4 and 5 string banjo
What do you know about banjoist Cynthia Sayer? Bluegrass lovers could easily have missed her sterling career, one that has led many to describe her as the top four string banjo player on the scene today. We have mentioned her name a number of times of late, with Cynthia being named a winner of the […]
New faces this year in Backline
Two new members have come onboard for Backline, the contemporary bluegrass group from South Carolina based around the singing and songwriting of Katelyn Ingardia. Katelyn tells us that they had a couple of players leave over the winter. “Jacob Connor, our mandolinist, stepped away from the band in November to focus on the police academy. […]
Gabriel Ramírez passes
This remembrance of Catalan banjo player Gabriel Ramírez is a contribution from his student and friend, Lluis Gomez, now the premiere banjo player in northeastern Spain. Noted Spanish banjoist Gabriel Ramírez, also known as Gabi or Gabe, has died following a debilitating illness. He died this past Saturday, March 9, in Barcelona, accompanied by his […]
Russ Carson in the pink after hand surgery
No… that’s not a stigmata on Russ Carson’s right hand. The crackerjack banjo picker with Ricky Skaggs is just off a full month of banjo rest following carpal tunnel surgery. This inflammatory disorder has afflicted a number of banjo players. It arises when the tendons which run through the carpal tunnel in your wrist become […]
Fundraiser for Billy Redden, Duelin’ Banjos banjo boy
During the summer of 1972, a movie called Deliverance shook things up in the United States. The film itself, and its intensely negative portrayal of residents of the Appalachian region of northern Georgia offered a view of mountain folk that colored impressions for decades. But it really made a noise in the music world with […]
What I Know Now from Steve Bruce
Banjo pickin’ pastor Steve Bruce is back with another single, this time the title track of his current album, What I Know Now. Bruce, pastor at Faith Way Assembly Of God in LaFollette, TN, has produced a full album of original bluegrass banjo numbers that he sees as praise music.According to Steve, all these catchy […]
