Billy Strings will go back to where it all began with his new album Me/And/Dad, a collaborative project between the young bluegrass star and his father, Terry Barber. The new project featuring country and bluegrass classics will be released Nov. 18 and includes two songs that were released today: “Long Journey Home” and “Life to Go.”
The traditional tune “Long Journey Home” shows off Strings’ lightning-fast picking as well as the harmonizing between him and Barber, who also plays guitar on the track. “Life to Go” is an acoustic...
The traditional tune “Long Journey Home” shows off Strings’ lightning-fast picking as well as the harmonizing between him and Barber, who also plays guitar on the track. “Life to Go” is an acoustic...
- 10/3/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, and Dolly Parton were among the names called when the 33rd annual Ibma Bluegrass Music Awards were announced on Tuesday in Nashville. Strings will compete in six categories, Tuttle in five, and Parton in two when the 2022 IBMAs are held Sept. 29 at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Strings and Tuttle compete against each other in four categories: Guitar Player of the Year, Album of the Year, Instrumental Group of the Year, and the top prize of Entertainer of the Year.
Strings and Tuttle compete against each other in four categories: Guitar Player of the Year, Album of the Year, Instrumental Group of the Year, and the top prize of Entertainer of the Year.
- 7/26/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Molly Tuttle pays tribute to a free-spirited woman in the new song “She’ll Change.” It’s the singer-guitarist’s first release from an upcoming 2022 album, her first with record label Nonesuch.
Tuttle penned the song with Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor, and the end result is a sprightly tune on which the picking dives off in ways as surprising and unpredictable as the woman being described. “She don’t worry about tomorrow/She’s got plenty on her mind,” Tuttle begins, dashing off nifty acoustic-guitar runs between lines.
Tuttle penned the song with Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor, and the end result is a sprightly tune on which the picking dives off in ways as surprising and unpredictable as the woman being described. “She don’t worry about tomorrow/She’s got plenty on her mind,” Tuttle begins, dashing off nifty acoustic-guitar runs between lines.
- 11/17/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Sturgill Simpson may be signaling the end of his solo career with his most recent album, but he’s not finished playing live. On Friday night, the country musician brought his bluegrass band to the Outlaw Music Festival in Gilford, New Hampshire, and debuted new music including “Shamrock” from The Ballad of Dood & Juanita.
A fiddle-and-banjo-driven number in its original form, “Shamrock” needs no alterations for Simpson’s live performance as musicians Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan, Tim O’Brien, and Mike Bub all show off some dazzling instrumental runs. The speedy...
A fiddle-and-banjo-driven number in its original form, “Shamrock” needs no alterations for Simpson’s live performance as musicians Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan, Tim O’Brien, and Mike Bub all show off some dazzling instrumental runs. The speedy...
- 9/13/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Nominations for the 32nd annual Ibma Bluegrass Music Awards were announced on Tuesday, with Balsam Range, Billy Strings, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Del McCoury Band, and the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys all vying for the Entertainer of the Year prize. The honors will be presented in person (after a virtual event in 2020) on September 30th at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Balsam Range, a past Entertainer of the Year winner, scored nominations in several categories, including Vocal Group of the Year and Song of the Year (for “Richest Man”). Strings,...
Balsam Range, a past Entertainer of the Year winner, scored nominations in several categories, including Vocal Group of the Year and Song of the Year (for “Richest Man”). Strings,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Sturgill Simpson is set to release his first solo bluegrass album, titled Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions, later this week.
The LP — which follows Simpson’s 2019 album Sound and Fury — was meant to be a surprise release this coming Thursday before fans caught wind of Cuttin’ Grass’ early listing on an online streaming site.
“Welp,..was hoping to surprise everybody on Thursday but somebody somewhere (Germany) got all excited and just couldn’t hold their horses,” Simpson wrote on Instagram next to the album’s cover art,...
The LP — which follows Simpson’s 2019 album Sound and Fury — was meant to be a surprise release this coming Thursday before fans caught wind of Cuttin’ Grass’ early listing on an online streaming site.
“Welp,..was hoping to surprise everybody on Thursday but somebody somewhere (Germany) got all excited and just couldn’t hold their horses,” Simpson wrote on Instagram next to the album’s cover art,...
- 10/14/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Nominations for the 31st annual International Bluegrass Music Association Awards were unveiled Friday in a live event broadcast on SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction channel, with an array of talent, from legends to newcomers, recognized in more than a dozen categories. Competition was so tight in the top-prize race this year that Entertainer of the Year features six nominees instead of the usual five.
Musicians vying for Entertainer of the Year are Balsam Range, Billy Strings, Del McCoury Band, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Sister Sadie, and Special Consensus.
With their mention in the category,...
Musicians vying for Entertainer of the Year are Balsam Range, Billy Strings, Del McCoury Band, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Sister Sadie, and Special Consensus.
With their mention in the category,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Sturgill Simpson will perform a free livestream concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The Sound & Fury artist announced the show via Instagram as a thank-you to fans who raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for three charities.
Set for Friday, June 5th, at 7 p.m. Ct, Simpson’s performance will stream for free via nugs.net, Twitch, and YouTube. “With your unbelievable generosity we raised over $250,000 for MusiCares Covid-19 Relief, Equity Alliance Nashville Tornado Relief, and the Special Forces Foundation benefiting severely wounded operators fighting the global...
Set for Friday, June 5th, at 7 p.m. Ct, Simpson’s performance will stream for free via nugs.net, Twitch, and YouTube. “With your unbelievable generosity we raised over $250,000 for MusiCares Covid-19 Relief, Equity Alliance Nashville Tornado Relief, and the Special Forces Foundation benefiting severely wounded operators fighting the global...
- 6/4/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The 30th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards took place in Raleigh, North Carolina, Thursday night with Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers taking the top prize, Entertainer of the Year, with their very first nomination in that category. Mullins and band also shared the Collaborative Recording of the Year, for “The Guitar Song,” with Del McCoury, who adds to his already impressive tally of awards with a second win in the Album of the Year category for Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass.
Other first-time honorees include Vocal Group of the Year Sister Sadie,...
Other first-time honorees include Vocal Group of the Year Sister Sadie,...
- 9/27/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Nominations for the 2019 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards were announced Wednesday morning. With a total of 24 nominations among them, this year’s nominees for the Ibma Entertainer of the Year are Balsam Range, Sam Bush Band, the Earls of Leicester, Del McCoury Band, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers. The winners in this and other categories, including Album of the Year, individual vocal and instrumental exellence, and Song of the Year (with a surprising seven nominees because of a tie) will be revealed at the 2019 International Bluegrass Music Awards on September 26th.
- 7/24/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
In 1990, Tim O’Brien joined country star and Cma Female Vocalist award-winner Kathy Mattea on the romantic “Battle Hymn of Love,” which set vows of eternal commitment to a gentle acoustic bluegrass background. Now, nearly three decades later, O’Brien offers another sweet Valentine in “Amazing Love,” a song he penned with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.
Full of sweet, heart-pulsing imagery and dreamy harmony vocals by Jan Fabricius, “Amazing Love” bursts forth with romantic proclamation and grateful appreciation as the pair sing, “I see you through the window before I turn the key,...
Full of sweet, heart-pulsing imagery and dreamy harmony vocals by Jan Fabricius, “Amazing Love” bursts forth with romantic proclamation and grateful appreciation as the pair sing, “I see you through the window before I turn the key,...
- 2/14/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Bluegrass stalwart Tim O’Brien will release a new album in 2019. Nodding to the prevalence of bluegrass bands named for their leader, Tim O’Brien Band (out March 15th) will be its namesake’s first full-length album since 2017’s Where the River Meets the Road.
Featuring O’Brien’s touring mates Mike Bub, Shad Cobb, Jan Fabricius and Patrick Sauber, the new album features O’Brien performing songs by Norman Blake (“Last Train From Poor Valley”) and Woody Guthrie, whose political “Pastures of Plenty” deals with the plight of migrant workers in the U.
Featuring O’Brien’s touring mates Mike Bub, Shad Cobb, Jan Fabricius and Patrick Sauber, the new album features O’Brien performing songs by Norman Blake (“Last Train From Poor Valley”) and Woody Guthrie, whose political “Pastures of Plenty” deals with the plight of migrant workers in the U.
- 1/16/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
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