North Carolina based band, Nu-Blu has been awarded COUNTRY BAND OF THE YEAR by the Carolina Music Awards. The award was presented to the band July 18th during the 3rd Annual Carolina Music Awards Show at the Progress Energy Center in Downtown, Raleigh, North Carolina. The focus of the Carolina Music Awards is the development of the music industry in the Carolinas, encouraging growth in music now and in the future.

Nu-Blu includes the talents of Daniel Routh, Carolyn Routh, Kendall Gales and Levi Austin who have garnered recent media attention including this month’s features in both The Alternate Root Magazine and Bluegrass Music Profiles Magazine. Their new album, “NIGHTS” was released just a few short months ago and is already receiving very impressive airplay on Bluegrass, Americana and Roots radio stations around the world.

“NIGHTS” is now available at Amazon.com, iTunes, Music Shed, CD Baby, Wal-Mart, the band’s website and more outlets. For more information on Nu-Blu including a complete tour schedule, Booking and Media contacts, please visit www.nu-blu.com

A collective sigh of relief came from DelFest co-founders Roy Carter and Rebecca Sparks, of California based High Sierra Music, and festival namesake Del McCoury in Nashville, when co-founder Stan Strickland informed them that the Allegany County commissioners had issued a press release, bringing to close to a controversy that began six weeks ago when Allegany County Liquor Board chairman Gerald Delaney Read more…

Bluegrass artist and banjo player, Cullen Galyean, passed away in his sleep Tuesday July 13, 2010. His recent recording Born Into Bluegrass, The Songs of Cullen Galyean is on Mountain Roads Recordings.

He was a member of the Foot Hills Boys which included Bobby Harrison, Wayburn Johnson and Ivory Melton.

photo: Mountain Home Recordings

 Rural Rhythm Records is very proud to announce the new release, “STILL LEARNING” by the Lonesome River Band.  Read more…

Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce the release of “BLOODLINE”, the debut album by The Darrell Webb Band.  Darrell is very excited Read more…

Mountain Fever Records is proud to announce they have signed bluegrass recording artists, Volume Five to the label and will release Down In A Cell, the band’s new CD on August 17th.  

Consisting of Glen Harrell (fiddle & vocals); Patton Wages (banjo, & vocals); Chris Williamson (bass & vocals); Jesse Daniel (mandolin & vocals); and Adam Duke (guitar & vocals), each member of Volume Five has held tenure with national touring bands prior to their collective start in early 2008.  Performing with such well known acts as Marty Raybon and Full Circle, The Bradley Walker Band, The Anita Fisher Band, Randy Kohrs and The Lites, The Larry Stephenson Band, and David Davis and The Warrior River Boys, has allowed members of Volume Five the opportunity to hone his craft to perfection and gain the stage experience needed to entertain just about any crowd.  Volume Five’s strong vocals, dead-on harmonies, and precision picking make them one of the most exciting new “traditional” bands to hit the bluegrass scene in a long while. 

 Down In A Cell includes 11 tracks with four originals written by members of Volume Five (“Down In A Cell” by Adam Duke, “Busy City”, “These Lies”, and “Ride Ruby Ride” by Jesse Daniel) along with songs penned by popular writers such as Whitey Shafer (“Baptism of Jesse Taylor”) and Dottie Rambo (“Sailing On”).  The CD also features a great bluegrass re-make of “Home”, originally a hit for country music star Joe Diffie.  Possibly the most unique aspect of Down In A Cell is the lead vocals shared between Glen Harrell and Adam Duke, both soulful singers but each with a distinctive style all their own.

Listen to a clip of “Like A Stone”:  

For more information on Volume Five, please visit www.VolumeFiveBG.com or www.MountainFever.com.

Sharps Chapel TN-   The multi-talented Commercial Bluegrass Gospel group, Lakeside, has reached a recording agreement with Chapel Valley. Lakeside has been signed on Chapel Valley’s, Mercy Road Label, which is designated for Commercial Country Gospel artists.

In light of the much-heralded announcement made to the press by the City of Owensboro Read more…