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Adkins & Loudermilk hit with a bang when they announced their partnership back in November of 2013, with reverberations sounding across bluegrass music. Edgar Loudermilk left his position on bass and harmony vocals with IIIrd Tyme Out, and Dave Adkins dissolved his own band to launch the venture with Edgar. But as things were then positioned, [...]
Rebel Records has released a second single from Another Day From Life, their current project for Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers. One might say it's actually the third single, since The Last Parade came out as a single even before the album was released. In any event, this time it's the title track, a Bill [...]
Thanks to Stu Vincent, a newly-assigned member of the Board of Directors for the European Bluegrass Music Association, for sending along these photos from the presentation of awards at last weekend's European Bluegrass Gathering during the Munich Bluegrass Festival in Germany. They are of the presentations of the 2015 European Bluegrass Pioneer and Personality Awards. [...]
We had posted back in January about Bud Bennett, the Appalachian Music Specialist at Radford University's McConnell Library, and his series of videos with banjo legend Butch Robins, who lives near Radford. Butch spoke at length about his life and music, and his time with Bill Monroe. It's a valuable oral history of an important time in bluegrass. Bud [...]
I’m deep in recording studio land in North Carolina this week,. That’s a good thing, but it has left me little time for blogging, jogging, or even seeing daylight. For that reason, I offer up this column from last April on song-pitching: There’s a perception in some places, in Nashville especially, that songwriters and publishers [...]
