Jason Carter, fiddler for both The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin' McCourys, has announced an upcoming solo project, Lowdown Hoedown, featuring his considerable skills as both a bowman and a vocalist. A debut single is available today, Jason's take on Bruce Hornsby's King of the Hill from 1998. Carter is supported on the track [...]
Last year around this time, we ran a story about an error-ridden obituary of Tony Rice that ran in Relix magazine online. It turned out that the mistakes were the result of an inexperienced staffer who found herself needing to write and approve copy over the Christmas break, without the sort of editorial support that [...]
The Del McCoury Band has released a second single from their upcoming Almost Proud album, expected to release in February of 2022. It's a song that honors one of Del's favorite artists, Jerry Lee Lewis, on a new number arranged to be reminiscent of The Killer's style. Written Josh Shilling and Bill Whyte, this one [...]
New music from Del McCoury always makes it a red letter day for bluegrass lovers, and today is no exception. A brand new single from an upcoming album by The Del McCoury Band is now available, one Del wrote called Running Wild. It features McCoury's distinctive lead singing as well as his stratospheric tenor on a [...]
The weekend of DelFest Lite in Round Hill, Virginia was for the most part grey with rains on and off, but the talk around the festival was all about how happy the folks were to be having fun at a music festival again. Both the folks playing the festival and those who came out to [...]
More great live music news! Having been forced by COVID circumstances to postpone the big DelFest shindig in May until September, Del McCoury and his family have decided to offer a mini festival experience over Memorial Day weekend all the same, which they have dubbed DelFest Lite. Same great taste, but less filling... and with [...]
Mountain Fever Records has released another single to radio from Justin Moses' upcoming album, Fall Like Rain, due to hit later this month. This latest, My Baby's Gone, features the iconic lead singing of Del McCoury, and support from several members of The Travelin' McCourys. It's not the classic country number written and sung by [...]
Jason Carter, fiddler for both The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin' McCourys, has announced an upcoming solo project, Lowdown Hoedown, featuring his considerable skills as both a bowman and a vocalist. A debut single is available today, Jason's take on Bruce Hornsby's King of the Hill from 1998. Carter is supported on the track [...] 
Dick Smith at the 2003 IBMA convention in Louisville, KY - photo © Jeromie Stephens Dick Smith, Washington, DC area musician, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on Thursday morning July 28, 2022. He was 77 years old. Born October 4, 1943, and originally from upstate New York, he lived in Alexandria, Virginia for many [...] 
Del McCoury Band at Silverados in Black Mountain, NC - photo © Steve Wittenberg/MeanPonyProductions Steve Wittenberg with MeanPonyProductions was on hand this past weekend for a show in Black Mountain, NC featuring both The Travelin' McCourys and The Del McCoury Band. It was held at Silverados outdoor amphitheater near Asheville, and Steve captured the performances [...] 
Vince Gill with The Del McCoury Band - photo by Chris Hollo © Grand Ole Opry Nashville superstars Del McCoury and Vince Gill are singing together on the latest single from The Del McCoury Band. Honky Tonk Nights finds Vince and Del trading verses, and tenoring each other. Oh my! The song has that funky, bluesy sound [...] 
Last year around this time, we ran a story about an error-ridden obituary of Tony Rice that ran in Relix magazine online. It turned out that the mistakes were the result of an inexperienced staffer who found herself needing to write and approve copy over the Christmas break, without the sort of editorial support that [...] 
The Del McCoury Band has released a second single from their upcoming Almost Proud album, expected to release in February of 2022. It's a song that honors one of Del's favorite artists, Jerry Lee Lewis, on a new number arranged to be reminiscent of The Killer's style. Written Josh Shilling and Bill Whyte, this one [...] 
New music from Del McCoury always makes it a red letter day for bluegrass lovers, and today is no exception. A brand new single from an upcoming album by The Del McCoury Band is now available, one Del wrote called Running Wild. It features McCoury's distinctive lead singing as well as his stratospheric tenor on a [...] 
The weekend of DelFest Lite in Round Hill, Virginia was for the most part grey with rains on and off, but the talk around the festival was all about how happy the folks were to be having fun at a music festival again. Both the folks playing the festival and those who came out to [...] 
More great live music news! Having been forced by COVID circumstances to postpone the big DelFest shindig in May until September, Del McCoury and his family have decided to offer a mini festival experience over Memorial Day weekend all the same, which they have dubbed DelFest Lite. Same great taste, but less filling... and with [...] 
Mountain Fever Records has released another single to radio from Justin Moses' upcoming album, Fall Like Rain, due to hit later this month. This latest, My Baby's Gone, features the iconic lead singing of Del McCoury, and support from several members of The Travelin' McCourys. It's not the classic country number written and sung by [...] 