Announcing Remains to Be Scene, the singular new album by The Seldom Scene. Remains to Be Scene is available for pre-order now, and will be released on CD, LP, and digitally on March 14th. Remains to Be Scene is available for pre-order here.

The concept of bluegrass unshackling itself from a conservative, straight-ahead mindset seems like a given in 2025, when some of its biggest stars fill stadiums and cross over with mainstream audiences, but the continued presence of The Seldom Scene acts as a reminder that it wasn’t always so. Even if their playing style feels more at home in intimate clubs, where the audience can feel their exuberance radiating from the stage, the Scene’s elastic relationship to genre established an important precedent that encouraged their contemporaries and allowed bluegrass bands to expand their repertoire in ways that laid the groundwork for today’s bluegrass boom. There’s still something thrilling about hearing this band’s alchemical skill as they draw throughlines from Bob Dylan to Bill Monroe.

Remains to Be Scene continues their long-running legacy of pulling gems from outside of and within the bluegrass canon and reimagining them in what is now a signature style. Comprised of mandolin player Lou Reid, bassist Ronnie Simpkins, banjoist and fiddler Ron Stewart, dobro player Fred Travers, and guitarist Dudley Connell (who was recently succeeded by Grammy award-winner Clay Hess—more on that below), Remains to Be Scene features an interpretation of Jim Croce’s “A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’t Got No Business (Singin’ the Blues),” a pair of songs by Bob Dylan: “Walking Down the Line” and “Farewell Angelina,” the latter made famous by Joan Baez in 1965, while also revisiting a fan-favorite, “White Line,” from the their iconic Live at the Cellar Door album and paying tribute to their inspirations, Flatt & Scruggs with “Hard Travelin’.”