The Infamous Stringdusters - “The Infamous Stringdusters” (Sugar Hill Records)
The Infamous Stringdusters stunned the bluegrass world at last years IBMA awards. The ‘Dusters, you might recall, took home the awards for Emerging Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and they also recorded the IBMA’s “Song of the Year” which was the [...]

Rounder records will release a Tony Rice disc titled “Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection” August 5. Photo by Thomas Stout.
Burlington, MA— No other guitarist in the last thirty years has had a greater impact on acoustic music than Tony Rice. The new Rounder compilation, Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection, due August 5, contains a [...]

Homemade Hillbilly Jam, a documentary, will be released on DVD june 24.
In the 1800s a scrappy group of Scotch-Irish immigrants settled in the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri. Stereotyped as poor, lawless degenerates, these isolated hill folk over time became the butt of countless jokes and earned themselves the name “hillbillies.”
This enjoyable documentary captures [...]

Drew Emmitt releases “Long Road” on Compass Records July 15.
Nashville, Tenn. — “Lord you know I’ve been so many places / At least I know I have a longer view”, sings Leftover Salmon lead singer and mandolin player Drew Emmitt over a rollicking mandolin lick on the title track of his third solo effort, [...]