Mountain Home Music has a second single from their next album from The Grascals, a hard-driving bluegrass number that reaches back to an earlier era in our music. This time the band features newest member, Chris Davis, on one written by the Bailes Brothers, Traveling The Highway Home, famously recorded by Ralph Stanley in the late [...]
Another bluegrass baby! I guess we know what our favorite touring artists were doing during the 2020 lockdown. This time we give a Bluegrass Today welcome to Arlie Reid Bryan, the first born child of John Bryan, guitarist/vocalist with The Grascals, and his wife, Ashlynn. Arlie was born on February 13, weighing in at 7 lbs, [...]
It's new music week for The Grascals, and Mountain Home Music Company has a single set for release on Friday. This time out we have a tender love ballad sung by guitarist John Bryan, Flowers and Lace, which tells of how true love can endure across time. Instead of a driving grasser, this one moves [...]
Mountain Home Music has a new single from The Grascals set for release tomorrow, and we are happy to offer a sneak peek to our Bluegrass Today readers. It's a new song written by Jerry Salley and J.B. Rudd, Sleepy Little Town, about the siren call of the old home place, especially for those who left [...]
The country, bluegrass, Gospel, and roots music communities are all mourning the unexpected loss of Charlie Daniels this week. A member of both the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Charlie Daniels passed away at the age of 83 from a stroke yesterday. Charlie’s “big break” in the country music world [...]
With a name like “Gibson,” one might guess that this West Virginia teenager was a musician. Well, that would be correct! Gibson, a fourth generation musician, hammers the five string. The rising 9th grader explained his name. “My dad is friends with Elmer Burchett, banjo picker with Wildfire. They went camping and Dad was wondering [...]
Mountain Home Music Company has released the title track of their latest album for The Grascals as the new focus track to bluegrass radio. Straighten The Curves is a hard-driving, fast-moving grasser from Canadian songwriter Chris Coole, sung by Grascal John Bryan, with vocal support from fellow guitarist, Chris Davis, and bass man, Terry Smith. [...]
Hearing a CD from The Grascals for the first time is like having an old friend drop by. Even if you haven’t seen each other for a while, you know just what to expect and get comfortable right off the bat. So it is with Straighten The Curves, the band’s latest release for Mountain Home [...]
Central North Carolina was the site of the third annual Bluegrass and BBQ Benefit Concert for North Carolina 4-H. Held at Millstone 4-H Camp in Ellerbee, NC, the event featured music by the Grascals, the Chatham Rabbits, and Long Gone Bluegrass, plus a catered barbeque buffet and a silent auction. 100% of the proceeds will [...]
Mountain Home Music has just released a music video for Callin' Your Name, the latest single for their current album from The Grascals, Straighten The Curves. The song features the newest Grascal, Chris Davis, on a song written by Larry Cordle and Chris Austin, which Cord pitched directly to Davis. The rest of the band [...]