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Compass Records has just released four digital albums of music recorded during the 2012 season of Music City Roots, a Nashville-based radio and television program airing each Wednesday evening from The Loveless Barn. Each of the four is titled based on loose stylistic groupings of the music featured on the show: GrassRoots, SongRoots, TwangRoots and SoulRoots. Of primary [...]
Rounder has released a debut music video from this week's new album from The Steeldrivers, Hammer Down. The song is I'll Be There, written by featured vocalist Gary Nichols, along with John Paul White. Befitting the tone and lyrics of the song, the video has a somber and sinister vibe. It was directed by Dycee Wildman, [...]
Tonight's (2/6) edition of Music City Roots will feature a bluegrass-centric lineup. They are billing the show as Bluegrass and Friends, since two of the shows acts will be billed in that fashion. Jon Weisberger & Friends will feature the noted songwriter, bassist and IBMA Executive Committee member in an unfamiliar position - fronting a [...]
Listening to music from the SteelDrivers is a lot like watching an episode of NCIS. You know it’s only a matter time until a body turns up. With its third release on Rounder Records, Hammer Down, the band doesn’t waste any time. Victim Number One pops up in the first line of Shallow Grave, the [...]
The Steeldrivers' upcoming Rounder album, Hammer Down, is being offered as a live stream through the mega pop culture site, PopMatters. There you can not only hear the entire project in its entirely, you can read an interview with the band about Hammer Down, which drops tomorrow (2/5). This is the first release since original [...]
Rounder is giving away a free track from the upcoming Steeldrivers release, Hammer Down, due to hit on February 5. This is their first recording with the latest iteration of the band, with Gary Nichols on guitar and lead vocals, Tammy Rogers on fiddle, Richard Bailey on banjo, Mike Fleming on bass and Brent Truitt [...]
Rounder will be releasing their third project from The Steeldrivers, Hammer Down, on February 5, 2013. This will be the first album from the newly-reconstituted band. Original members Richard Bailey on banjo, Mike Fleming on bass, and Tammy Rogers on fiddle recorded the album with Gary Nichols on guitar and Brent Truitt on mandolin. Nichols has [...]
Frank Baker has uploaded a big batch of photos from Saturday at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Looks like a full day of music.
If any of you tuned in to the Grammys last night, or have followed any of the coverage, you surely noticed one name that has been making headlines: Adele. Adele tied Beyonce’s record for the most Grammys brought home in one night with six awards. Her latest studio album, 21, won Best Pop Vocal Album [...]
In the wake of Mike Henderson's exit, Steeldrivers fiddler/vocalist Tammy Rogers shared some thoughts yesterday on the next chapter of the band's evolution. She said right up front that Mike's announcement caught the band completely off guard. "It was a surprise - something none of us were expecting. Not sure I have completely absorbed it [...]
