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The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 55th annual Grammy Awards in a Nashville ceremony last night. While the rest of the world gushes over Jay-Z, The Black Keys and Kanye West, we'll save our praise for the all important Best Bluegrass Album category. And the nominees are... The Gospel Side of Dailey & [...]
The Grascals have released a new video for Road To Surrender from their current Mountain Home album, Life Finds A Way. It's an interesting sort of hybrid, combining studio and live footage of the song, which was written by Grascals guitarist Jamie Johnson. You can keep up with the band at www.grascals.com.
The Grascals look a little different rolling down the road these days. Their trusty tour bus is newly-adorned with tasty treats from the folks at Vietti Foods, the band's new sponsor. The company, based in Nashville, has been a strong supporter of bluegrass music this past few years, featuring several artists on cans of their [...]
Laura Tate Ridge has sent along a large gallery of photos she took at last weekend's Lil John Mountain Music Festival in Snow Camp, NC.
15 performances from the 6th season of the popular Song Of The Mountains television program have been assembled into a DVD that is now available for sale. The show typically offers live, half hour sets from both established and up-and-coming bluegrass and traditional music artists, airing weekly on PBS affiliate stations across the US. The DVD grabs [...]
When The Grascals held their Life Finds A Way CD release party in Nashville last month, a couple of videos were shot to capture the festivities. Held at the Sirius XM studio downtown on March 27, the event featured a live performance by the band and a chance for Music City media folks to do [...]
This remembrance of Earl Scruggs comes from Kristin Scott Benson, banjo player with The Grascals, and a multiple winner of the IBMA Banjo Player of the Year award. Like everyone else that loves bluegrass music and the banjo, I was saddened to hear the news of Earl Scruggs' passing. Terry Smith, bass player with The [...]
Mountain Home has released Life Finds A Way, the new album from The Grascals, for digital distribution nearly two weeks before it hits on CD. This is the band's first record with Mountain Home, and their first true band records in several years. The prior two releases were specialty projects, one for Cracker Barrel and [...]
Mountain Home has released a brief video showing Kristin Scott Benson tracking banjo in the studio on the song Pretty Melody. It's one that will be included on the next record from The Grascals.
Fox 17 news in Nashville ran a story on Tuesday about the nasty contract dispute between The Grascals and Entertainment Evolution. A channel 17 reporter caught up with the two attorneys representing the band and Kirt Webster, owner of Entertainment Evolution and Webster & Associates (named in The Grascals' counter suit), and they squared off [...]
