Kris Wheeler, co-director of the feature film, Revival: The Sam Bush Story, has announced that the project has been accepted for distribution by Amazon, and will be available for rent or purchase there starting November 1. That means that Amazon Prime members will be able to watch the 98-minute documentary next week on any devices [...]
Dark Shadow Recording has released another music video for Becky Buller with one of the tracks from her current album, Crepe Paper Heart. The video was recorded just as the song was cut on the album, as a duet with Sam Bush on mandolin and Becky on clawhammer banjo. Becky had written The Rebel And The [...]
You could call Sam Bush a musical multi-tasker. A festival fanatic perhaps. A man who never lacks a muse or inspiration. Or, to put it more succinctly, someone who simply loves what he does. How else to explain his constant desire to be up onstage and performing with friends and colleagues, whether it’s folks he’s [...]
Among the many exciting acts set to grace the stage during the IBMA's Wide Open Bluegrass festival in late September is a special collaborative performance in honor of Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen. Organized by Jerry Douglas and Sam Bush, the 8:00 p.m. set on September 29 will also include Jon Randall on guitar, [...]
Ronnie McCoury at Old Settler's Music Festival (April 2017) - photo by Tom Dunning 2017 was the 30th Anniversary event for the Old Settler's Music Festival in the Texas hill country west of Austin. They offer four days of music, blending bluegrass, folk, and Americana groups which occurred this year April 20-23. Here are some [...]
The 44th annual RockyGrass festival was held last weekend in Lyons, CO. Surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains, fans enjoyed the best in bluegrass for three straight days. These are my reflections and opinions as a first time RockyGrass attendee. RockyGrass!! One of the items on my “Bluegrass Bucket List” was finally able to be [...]
Sam Bush didn't feel like he had been avoiding the recording studio when he realized that it had been almost seven years since he had a new album out. Speaking with him yesterday about his latest release, Storyman, he laughed and said, "I've been playing on a lot of records - they just haven't been [...]
Seize The Day…. In one way or another, that phrase became the catchphrase for an entire music festival this past Memorial Day Weekend, 2016. Seize The Day… Isn’t that how many of us feel as we arrive FINALLY to what is for most, one of the first bluegrass festivals of the summer season, DelFest? After [...]
More news today from Sugar Hill Records... June 24 is announced as the release date for Storyman, their 7th project for new grass legend Sam Bush. It will be Sam's first project since Circles Around Me in 2009. Bush, who also produced the new record, took more than four years to complete the sessions for Storyman, [...]