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When Darin & Brooke Aldridge played the Altamont Theatre in Asheville NC back in May with John Cowan, they shot this live video of Someday Soon from their Mountain Home release, Faster And Farther. The song is currently #1 on our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart, where it has been hovering near the top most [...]
Every recording artist no doubt sets out to make his or her newest CD better than the last one. Some, frankly, don’t succeed. Others smash right through the “better” barrier, taking their careers to lofty new heights and setting the bar remarkably high for improving next time. Faster and Farther from Darin and Brooke Aldridge [...]
Faster And Farther, the upcoming Mountain Home project from Darin & Brooke Aldridge, has been generating a great deal of anticipation in bluegrass circles for the past two months. The husband/wife songbirds have delighted fans with their five previous albums, plus a live CD and a concert DVD. Recently, they have been touring with newgrass [...]
Mountain Home Music has announced February 10 as the release date for the next album from Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Faster And Farther. It will be their sixth record for the North Carolina-based label. The husband-and-wife team has spent part of this year touring with John Cowan, and the rest performing their own music with their own [...]
For over 5 decades, Southern Ohio has been a hotbed for bluegrass music, tracing back to the briarhoppers heading north for the industrial boom of the '50s and '60s. Supporting a family sometimes meant leaving your native mountains for the city, but these folks brought their beloved mountain music with them, helping soothe their homesick [...]
Here's one more gallery of Frank Baker's images from last weekend's Wide Open Bluegrass celebration in Raleigh.
Are you a banjo player looking for a full time gig? A spot is opening up with Darin & Brooke Aldridge this summer, and they have asked us to share news of the fact to help them find the perfect picker for the job. The band works a consistently busy schedule, but primarily on weekends, [...]
And here is another gallery of Frank Baker's photos from the May 2016 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
This past Saturday night (January 30) modern bluegrass music held forth at Nashville's City Winery. The occasion was a concert by The John Cowan Band, which on Saturday included Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Tyler Collins, Graham Russell, Shad Cobb, and Ed Toth from The Doobie Brothers. After an opening set by The Bankesters, Cowan with Darin [...]
The good news for bluegrass fans last year: A lot of terrific music was released. So much, in fact, that it made picking my annual best-of list harder than usual. I eliminated bands that recorded songs I wrote because of an obvious conflict, narrowed my list to 16 or 17, but still had trouble getting [...]
