Music

Western North Carolina has long been a hotbed for acoustic string music, often of a more modern or progressive strain, to go along with the politics of the region. But there is one bluegrass group from that part of Carolina,

Among the many perks of owning a record company is the ability to release new music of your own whenever you want. Of course, it helps tremendously if you are also a noted performing and recording artist as well as

Two of the top fiddlers in our genre, both of whom head up all-female bluegrass acts, have teamed up on a new twin fiddle project for Mountain Home Music. Deanie Richardson of Sister Sadie and Kimber Ludiker of Della Mae have

British Columbia's Under The Rocks has a brand new music video for their song, Bound For Glory, from their 2024 album, Honest Try. They have asked us to introduce the video to our readers, and we are happy to comply. The

Concurrent with the release of Bluegrass State of Mind, his new album with Pinecastle Records, Danny Paisley has a single from the project to share. Have I Stayed Away Too Long is, like Paisley himself, a classic, first recorded by Tex

Joe Dan Cornett, Director of Publishing for Billy Blue Music Publishing; Mark BonDurant (seated); Jerry Salley,A&R/Creative Director, Billy Blue Records; and Rick Shelton, President, Daywind Publishing  Billy Blue Music Publishing has announced the signing of Ohio songwriter Mark BonDurant to their roster. The

Roger Beck, an original member of the northwest Arkansas bluegrass band, Harmony Hollow, died quietly at his home in Colcord, OK on May 19. He was 79 years of age. Roger was guitarist and a vocalist in the band. Outside of music,

Irish-born bluegrass artist Danny Burns, who puts the grit in gritty and the gin in ginger, has a real hit on his hands in Blue Ridge Blue. The song has spent the past five weeks on our Bluegrass Today Weekley

Bonfire Music Group has shared a new single from Shawn Lane & Richard Bennett, taken from their current EP, 1682. Interestingly, given the theme of most of the songs, and the fact that all the others were written by Lane and

We all know the story of Pretty Polly, and her ill-fated decision to go along with Little Willie into the forest, where he took her life for refusing to honor his unseemly request. Perhaps the definitive murder ballad in Appalachian