Cadillac Sky performing “You Again” at the 2008 Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival.
With its second CD release now out and about, Cadillac Sky has impressed enough peers to land on the finalist list for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Emerging Artist of the Year award.
Known as genre benders, the group traces its roots to 2002 in [...]

Dailey & Vincent on stage during the June 2008 Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. Photo by Dan Tackett.
The bluegrass world predicted — no, expected — from the git-go that Dailey & Vincent would be huge. Everything that’s happened since the start of 2008 and the official start of the duo’s career has proven the expectations [...]

Grasstowne Video Biography. Video by Dean Hoffmeyer.
… and so these three bluegrass pals decided to quit touring with other bands and went off to form their own group. That’s Grasstowne, with the three longtime friends — Phil Ledbetter, Steve Gulley and Alan Bibey — bringing in a couple of young players — Jason Davis [...]

Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass.
Just because Dan Paisley, with his band The Southern Grass, is up for Emerging Artist of the Year honors from the International Bluegrass Music Association, don’t have the audacity to think he’s an overnight sensation. Paisley essentially inherited the band after his father, Bob Paisley, died in 2004. [...]

The Steeldrivers- “Drinkin’ Dark Whiskey”
The Steeldrivers, new on the bluegrass scene this year, are indicative that the times very well are a changin’. Backing up that indication is this observation from Tammy Rodgers, the band’s fiddler: “Certainly we want to keep one foot in the bluegrass world—that’s a great thing, but I think our music [...]