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Here is our last batch of photos from Pickin' In The Panhandle on Sunday. It was a simply gorgeous day in the mountains, and we all enjoyed some fabulous music and camaraderie. We still have a number of video interviews we shot with artists performing on the show, and will get them up over the [...]
Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have a new single coming up from Rebel Records. And I mean single in the old school style! Two songs are included, just as was done in the days of 45 RPM records. If That Was Love is a new song written by Jones and Night Driver bass man Jon [...]
A major highlight of our visit to Pickin' In The Panhandle this past weekend was having the opportunity to chat with Doyle Lawson about his being inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame later this month at the IBMA World of Bluegrass. Doyle is a bluegrass treasure, an icon with few peers in our music. [...]
This week’s trivia master is Peter “Pete Wernick” Wernick, who as Dr. Banjo makes house calls from his Niwot, CO home. Originally from New York City, Pete began his professional career in 1971 by winning the title America’s Top Chef while playing with Country Cooking (the world’s first bi-banjo band—with Tony Trischka). In 1976, Pete [...]
We posted back in July that bluegrass radio veteran Sherry Boyd was taking over the popular Blue Ridge Backroads show on WBRF, Blue Ridge County, which covers a large portion of southwest Virginia, northwestern North Carolina, and parts of East Tennessee and West Virginia. The show airs Monday through Saturday evenings, and had been hosted by [...]
Well... we've had Banjo For Dummies, and Bluegrass Mandolin for the Complete Ignoramus. So I suppose that Mel Bay's new book, Dirt Simple Fiddle by Mary Ann Willis, is in good company. Available as both a 60-page book/CD and a downloadable ebook, this new title is designed for first time fiddlers, and promises to get you playing tunes [...]
