The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) has announced the nominees for it’s annual Bluegrass Music Awards Show which happends during the annual SPBGMA convention and festival held Jan. 31 – Feb. 3 at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville Tenn.
Below is a partial listing of this years [...]

Mike Hartgrove photo by Steve Shaffer/KET
The Lonesome River Band has musicians coming and going as 2007 rolls into 2008.According to a message from Sammy Shelor on the band’s Web site, LRB’s former fiddle player Mike Hartgrove will rejoin the group in January.
“After a stint with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver and teaching fiddle, Mike will [...]

I’ll Take The Blame – The Adrians
Yes, Virginia, in this day of newgrass, contemporary grass, nuke-powered pickers and the like, bluegrass that your grandpa loved remains alive and fresh.
Yes, Virginia, I said fresh.
It can be found on a CD entitled “I’ll Take the Blame” by The Adrians, a band headquartered not in the Appalachians, but [...]