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No… that’s not a stigmata on Russ Carson’s right hand. The crackerjack banjo picker with Ricky Skaggs is just off a full month of banjo rest following carpal tunnel surgery. This inflammatory disorder has afflicted a number of banjo players. It arises when the tendons which run through the carpal tunnel in your wrist become […] The post Russ Carson in the pink after hand surgery appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

Enjoy good bluegrass chat? Like to keep up with what Josh Williams is up to these days? Then you should give a listen to the new Hometown Bluegrass Show podcast, hosted by Tim Batts and the aforementioned Josh Williams. Recorded each week at Allen Music Shop in Paducah, KY – where Josh teaches guitar – […] The post Hometown Bluegrass Show podcast from Kentucky appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

South Carolina banjo picker Todd Taylor is having a very busy and productive winter. Last month he released a new single and video for his song, Taylor’s Ride, and already in the new year he has an instrumental take on the gospel classic, The Old Rugged Cross. Taylor has cut the song in a southern […] The post Todd Taylor Old Rugged Cross video appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

If you need a last minute Christmas gift for the flatpicking guitar nerd on your list, David Grisman’s Acoustic Disc and Acoustic Oasis Downloads may have just the thing. They have just released a live set by The Rice Brothers, recorded in 1991 in Fairfax, VA, entitled The Rice Brothers – Live for the First […] The post The Rice Brothers Live for the First Time appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

On this day … On August 18, 1993, American-born British bluegrass activist Jan Jerrold passed away, aged 52. His importance in the popularity of bluegrass music in the UK could scarcely be overstated. Jan Jay Jerrold was born in Washington DC, on April 22, 1941, of French/Irish descent. He was the eldest of five children. […] The post On This Day #70: Remembering Jan Jerrold appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

Bluegrass fans have recognized Jeff Brown for some time now as a bluegrass singer and songwriter, very much in the Larry Sparks, Stanley Brothers vein. Of course he served an apprenticeship with Sparks as bass player for the Lonesome Ramblers for several years, and has filled in as a Clinch Mountain Boy as well. Growing […] The post Jeff Brown shows another side of his musical personality appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

Here is how producer Chris Eaton described the genesis of the forthcoming CD, The UK & Ireland Dobro Celebration. “In November 2022 I visited Nashville to attend Reso Summit Slide Fest. This experience inspired me to try and bring together some of the best lap steel guitarists from the UK and Ireland. Each artist submitted […] The post The UK & Ireland Dobro Celebration coming soon appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

Illinois fiddler and bluegrass promoter George Portz passed away on January 9, 2023, from a heart attack, just two days after his last performance – at the Missouri Area Bluegrass Committee’s (MABC) Winter Festival, Eureka. He was 70 years old. Since 1969, when Portz won the Illinois State Fiddling Championship, he became one of the […] The post George Portz passes appeared first on Bluegrass Today.

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Clay Jones has been both in and out of bluegrass music for most of his life. It seems like he’ll be prominent on guitar with a leading band for a while, like Mountain Heart or Lou Reid & Terry Baucom, and then he’ll drop out […]

You know what drives me nuts? It’s pretty simple. It’s for me to be on stage and play a fiddle note that is not good quality. Mind you, it can be one note in thousands — or it can be a bunch of poorly delivered […]

Gold Heart has a first single out today from their upcoming Mountain Fever Album, Places I’ve Been. The band consists of the three Gold sisters from northern Virginia, with their dad, Trent, on bass. All three sing, with Tori on mandolin, Jocey on guitar, and […]

Rebel Records has released a single, Bluefield West Virginia Blues, from their upcoming album by Big Country Bluegrass. It’s a new song fromTom T. &Dixie Hall and Troy Engle, telling of a time when Tom T. encountered an exceptional banjo player who he didn’t have […]

“John Hartford talked about the process of driving a river boat is not to look right in front of you, but to look a mile down the river.” Busy musical artists oft times become tangled in their own lack of long-range strategy. The majority of […]

A new single wasannouncedtoday fromEdie Brickell and The Steep Canyon Rangers, a song written by Brickell and Steeps guitarist/vocalist Woody Platt.The song is Test Of Time, an old time bluegrass number that bounces back and forth between 3/4 and 2/4 time. It’s sung as a […]

She is so cute. Let me say that more loudly: SHE IS SO CUTE. and genuine. and honest. and transparent. and rare. I had the pleasure to interview Becky Buller on stage at doors open at her recent Woodsongs Coffee House show at Stage 123 […]

Our Special Bluegrass Correspondent is now a Special Bluegrass Artist. John Curtis Goad, who has written reviews and features for Bluegrass Today since we launched, including our weekly, tongue-in-cheek Bluegrass Weather Report, has released a debut single from his upcoming solo project. It’s a tasty […]

Mountain Fever Records has released a single from Hammertowne’s upcoming album to bluegrass radio. Broken Heart Mended is a new song from bandbanjoistBrent Pack, relying heavily on hisdriving banjo, who turns in his best Crowe/Stewart impression on thekickoff.Pack isjoined by Scott Tackett and David Carroll […]

Now that Dixie Hall has gone on to her reward, her many friends in and around Nashville feel less constrained aboutsharing the love and admiration they feel for her. While she was with us,Miss Dixie would have considered it “making a fuss” to hear folks […]