Just when you may have thought you had heard every permutation of the country name song titles in bluegrass, Ray Edwards springs a new one on us. His latest single is Wanda Lou, and it's not even a made up moniker. It's one he wrote for his wife as a birthday gift three years ago, [...]
Bob Amos is best known for fronting the Colorado-based band Front Range that played together during the period from 1988 through to 2004, during which period they released seven albums. Amos wrote roughly 75% of the songs recorded by Front Range, most prominent among these are One Beautiful Day (the 1991 IBMA Gospel Recording of [...]
We caught up with Junior Sisk this afternoon, in between a run out to Missouri this past weekend, and one this coming up to Ontario in Canada. He's out in support of his most recent album, Brand New Shade Of Blue on Mountain Fever, and tells us that everywhere he performs, people come up and [...]
The battle over the proper boundaries of bluegrass rages on, and Lorraine Jordan adds her $.02 in the form of a new song, ably assisted by Junior Sisk and Danny Paisley on lead vocals with Carolina Road's Tommy Long, and Randy Graham singing tenor. The song asks the musical question, Why can't bluegrass just be [...]
We've made much over the years of what a compelling vocal stylist we have in Junior Sisk, and how well he epitomizes the lonesome mountain sound of bluegrass from the Appalachian region. His recent albums have earned consistent raves, with multiple tracks spending time on our radio chart. Some of his fans have expressed concern [...]
As we told you back in January, Junior Sisk is making some changes this year, dropping his band name, Ramblers Choice, and touring exclusively under his own name. Jonathan Dillon and Jamie Harper remain with Junior on mandolin and fiddle, respectively, with Mitch Walker now on banjo and John Marquess on bass. Junior's next album [...]
In 2018, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice will mark ten years as a band. In the decade since the release of its first album, the group has experienced much success: several number one singles, numerous IBMA and SPBGMA awards, and a multi-year partnership with Chantilly Farm Bluegrass & BBQ as the band’s home festival, among [...]
For his whole career as a bluegrass entertainer, James King had devoted and very loyal fans who sang his praises. Much of that came from the way King inserted raw emotion into a song, but another part was from the way he interacted with people at his shows. He had the heart of a clown, [...]
As the weather starts to warm up and summertime gets closer, the unofficial start of festival season is on the horizon for bluegrass fans all across the United States. From longtime favorites like Gettysburg and Delaware Valley that attract thousands every year, to small-town festivals that highlight local bands, many folks will be listening to [...]
Junior Sisk has been producing bluegrass music of the highest caliber since the mid-1990s. Many fans first heard his soulful voice on Picture In A Tear, a Rounder release for the band, Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz in 1996, though grassers in southwestern Virginia had been hearing him for years at jams and festivals in [...]
Just when you may have thought you had heard every permutation of the country name song titles in bluegrass, Ray Edwards springs a new one on us. His latest single is Wanda Lou, and it's not even a made up moniker. It's one he wrote for his wife as a birthday gift three years ago, [...] 
Bob Amos is best known for fronting the Colorado-based band Front Range that played together during the period from 1988 through to 2004, during which period they released seven albums. Amos wrote roughly 75% of the songs recorded by Front Range, most prominent among these are One Beautiful Day (the 1991 IBMA Gospel Recording of [...] 
We caught up with Junior Sisk this afternoon, in between a run out to Missouri this past weekend, and one this coming up to Ontario in Canada. He's out in support of his most recent album, Brand New Shade Of Blue on Mountain Fever, and tells us that everywhere he performs, people come up and [...] 
The battle over the proper boundaries of bluegrass rages on, and Lorraine Jordan adds her $.02 in the form of a new song, ably assisted by Junior Sisk and Danny Paisley on lead vocals with Carolina Road's Tommy Long, and Randy Graham singing tenor. The song asks the musical question, Why can't bluegrass just be [...] 
We've made much over the years of what a compelling vocal stylist we have in Junior Sisk, and how well he epitomizes the lonesome mountain sound of bluegrass from the Appalachian region. His recent albums have earned consistent raves, with multiple tracks spending time on our radio chart. Some of his fans have expressed concern [...] 
As we told you back in January, Junior Sisk is making some changes this year, dropping his band name, Ramblers Choice, and touring exclusively under his own name. Jonathan Dillon and Jamie Harper remain with Junior on mandolin and fiddle, respectively, with Mitch Walker now on banjo and John Marquess on bass. Junior's next album [...] 
In 2018, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice will mark ten years as a band. In the decade since the release of its first album, the group has experienced much success: several number one singles, numerous IBMA and SPBGMA awards, and a multi-year partnership with Chantilly Farm Bluegrass & BBQ as the band’s home festival, among [...] 
For his whole career as a bluegrass entertainer, James King had devoted and very loyal fans who sang his praises. Much of that came from the way King inserted raw emotion into a song, but another part was from the way he interacted with people at his shows. He had the heart of a clown, [...] 
As the weather starts to warm up and summertime gets closer, the unofficial start of festival season is on the horizon for bluegrass fans all across the United States. From longtime favorites like Gettysburg and Delaware Valley that attract thousands every year, to small-town festivals that highlight local bands, many folks will be listening to [...] 
Junior Sisk has been producing bluegrass music of the highest caliber since the mid-1990s. Many fans first heard his soulful voice on Picture In A Tear, a Rounder release for the band, Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz in 1996, though grassers in southwestern Virginia had been hearing him for years at jams and festivals in [...] 