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Here's another batch of images sent by Bill Warren from Rudy Fest 2014.
I'm not sure if a bluegrass album has ever been more appropriately titled than Hard Core Bluegrass, the latest project from Al Jones & The Spruce Mountain Boys on the Patuxent Music label. Jones is the remaining portion of the famed duo, Al Jones and Frank Necessary who, performing with the DC-based Spruce Mountain Boys, were [...]
This being peach season in the south, my original plan for this week was to write a column about the use of peaches in bluegrass lyrics through the years (as in, “You don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree,” etc.). However, my article last week on changes in the delivery and purchase (or not) [...]
Wayne Taylor, former director of the US Navy's Country Current, has released his latest CD, Movin' On. Like his previous solo efforts, and his ones with Appaloosa, the record consists primarily of Taylor's original songs, punctuated by a few folk and bluegrass classics. Eight of twelve tracks are Wayne's, with covers of The Dillards' Old Home [...]
Do you have a young reader with an interest in bluegrass music? If so, do we have a summer book for you. Kentucky author and actor Alecia Whitaker has just released Wildflower, a book for teens about 16 year old Bird Barrett, who performs with her family bluegrass band. In the course of the story, she deals [...]
