Pinecastle Records has announced the re-signing of Dale Ann Bradley, surely among the most enduring singers in bluegrass music, to a multi-album deal with the label. She is starting work this month on the first project of this new contract, with a release date yet to be established. Bradley, winner of five Female Vocalist of [...]
Pinecastle Records has released a music video today from Dale Ann Bradley, especially in time for the Easter weekend. It's one from her self-titled album, a popular Gospel song called Because He Loved Me. It tells the story we commemorate beginning today on Good Friday, of the passion death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in [...]
Usually around this time of year, cabin fever gets to me. In anticipation of the coming festival season, I play a little game, creating an imaginary festival and deciding what bands what I would invite. It’s a fun exercise, especially since I don’t have to worry about money – in my head I can afford [...]
Since the advent of supergroup Sister Sadie, bluegrass fans have gotten accustomed to hearing two of our music's most powerful female vocalists, Dale Ann Bradley and Tina Adair, singing together on a regular basis. The two harmonize beautifully together, and discovered last year that they enjoyed singing duets as a team. As Tina tells it... [...]
Celebrated songwriter Louisa Branscomb has released a new single from her current album, Gonna Love Anyway, in the form of a music video. The record is primarily a songwriter project, with Branscomb the author or co-author of all the tracks, and though she takes the lead on one of them, most are performed by leading [...]
Dale Ann Bradley has become a staple of several musical trends over the course of her career — bluegrass, Americana, grassicana, and most of the rootsier sounds that lie in-between. Indeed, if she’s yet to receive the full recognition that she’s clearly due, it’s certainly not because there’s any lack of prodigious effort on her [...]
Pinecastle Records has produced a music video for Dale Ann Bradley. It's the 'more-or-less' title track from her just-released album, The Hard Way. The full name of the song is Hard Way Every Time, which may be familiar if you were a fan of Jim Croce back in the '70s. It was included on his [...]
Pinecastle Records has released a single for the title track of Dale Ann Bradley's upcoming album, The Hard Way, ahead of its anticipated March street date. The actual name of the song is Hard Way Every Time, written and recorded by Jim Croce back in 1973. It appeared posthumously on Croce's final album, which was [...]
Dale Ann Bradley has announced the latest edition to her touring band. Steve Wilson from South Carolina has signed on as banjo player with the group. Many bluegrass fans know Steve as the chief luthier with Wilson Custom Banjos, or as the leader of the band Wilson Banjo Co. Growing up in the state of [...]
Bluegrass songstress Dale Ann Bradley was honored this past weekend as a 2018 inductee into the Kentucky Music Hall Of Fame. The ceremony was held at the Renfro Valley Park, where Bradley had performed many times in the early days of her career. Inductions have been held every other year since the Hall Of Fame was [...]