Brennen Leigh’s Modern Retro Country
Her new album, Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love, is a delicious sampling of sounds and styles from country’s golden eras.
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311’s Nick Hexum Trades Hard Rock for Bluegrass and Country
Along with LA punkgrass band Water Tower, lately Hexum has been on an existential and nostalgic string band journey.
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BGS 5+5: The Unfaithful Servants
Get to know genre-bending British Columbia string band the Unfaithful Servants with five songs and five questions.
Friends & Neighbors
Watch Billy Strings Perform on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Billy Strings, his band, and special guest Jason Carter celebrate the GRAMMY nomination for his album, Highway Prayers with an excellent appearance on late night television.
100 Years of Grand Ole Opry
Makes a Mighty Book
We spoke to author Craig Shelburne about distilling a century of the world’s longest running radio show into a brand new volume.
BGS 5+5: Frank Evans
Get to know Canadian bluegrass and old-time banjo player Frank Evans with five questions and five songs.
You Gotta Hear This: The Lone Bellow, Laurie Lewis, and More
Bluegrass, folk, old-time, and more – there’s plenty of essential new roots music you’ll love in our weekly round-up.
How Courtney Hartman
Made With You
The songwriter-guitarist’s excellent new album is defined by groundedness, parenthood, and community.
Joshua Ray Walker Has Got the Stuff
A cancer diagnosis changed how the country singer-songwriter viewed his earthly belongings – and a new album was born.
See the Winners From the 59th Annual CMA Awards
Lainey Wilson, Ella Langley & Riley Green, Zach Top, Vince Gill, and many more among honorees and winners during the primetime broadcast.
BGS Class of 2025: Books
Our picks from the many excellent roots music books released over the past year.
Among Bluegrass Diehards, Red Camel Collective Stands Out
They started as Junior Sisk’s backing band. Now they’re IBMA’s New Artist of the Year.
BGS 5+5: Ocie Elliott
Spend some time with Canadian indie-folk duo Ocie Elliott with a 5+5 interview – five songs and five questions.
Modern Old-Time Sounds From Canada
The Lonesome Ace Stringband spotlights old-time artists, songs, and sounds from the Great White North with their playlist.
Shooter Jennings’ Heartfelt Tribute to His Legendary Father
Songbird is just the first of three posthumous Waylon Jennings albums to be crafted by his prolific son.
You Gotta Hear This: New Music From Valerie June, Bryan Sutton, and More
You always need new roots music, right? Right! That’s why we collect the best new tracks, videos, singles, and releases each week on BGS.
Chris Thile Infuses Himself Into Bach’s Partitas and Sonatas
12 years on, Vol. 2 of Thile’s renditions of Bach’s iconic violin compositions contain even more of his own personality and perspective.
2026 International Folk Music Awards Reveal Nominees, Recipients
Folk Alliance International has announced the Best of 2025 nominees, Lifetime Achievement Awardees, Folk Radio Hall of Fame inductions, and more.
How-dee! And Happy 100 to the Grand Ole Opry
What began as a barn dance promoting insurance has become a musical and cultural powerhouse across multiple generations.
Jake Owen Started Bro Country. His New Album is Anything But
Dreams to Dream, produced by Shooter Jennings, is a sonic left turn for an artist who epitomizes 2000s mainstream country.
Our McCoury & Douglas Family Pickin’ Party Playlist
Start getting excited for this one-of-a-kind bluegrass camp event by jumping into our BGS playlist.
BGS 5+5: Bryan McDowell
Bluegrass fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter Bryan McDowell shares songs and stories in a BGS 5+5 interview.
Laurel Premo’s Songs of Grief and Opening
The songs of this playlist all have the power to help bring a glimpse or a full serving of transformation. This is music to guide us to enter ourselves.