Author: John Lawless

  • Sierra Hull back in the studio

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    Sierra Hull is spending this early part of 2013 tracking for her third Rounder Records album. They are recording at Ben Folds' Studio, the old RCA Studio A, designed by Chet Atkins in 1964. Vance Powell is engineering. In just the few

  • 2013 SPBGMA Award Winners

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    The winners of the 2013 SPBGMA Fan's Choice Awards have been announced here in Nashville at their 39th annual convention. Performances at the awards show included Nothin' Fancy, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, The Gibson Brothers, Rarely Herd, Randy Waller & the

  • SPBGMA snippets

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    Terry and I have been enjoying spending time here at SPBGMA with so many of the fine folks who create, promote, broadcast and write this wonderful bluegrass music we love so well. Roland White spent much of the afternoon at the

  • SPBGMA band contest winners

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    The winners of the 2013 SPBGMA Band Competition have just been announced here at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. Ten finalists were announced after yesterday's first round, and they all performed again this afternoon to determined the final order. And the winners

  • Dave Adkins at SPBGMA

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    Things were hopping in the lobby of the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville last night here at SPBGMA. We caught Dave Adkins & Republik Steele in a lobby alcove performing their current single, The Way I Roll.  

  • Mile high bluegrass

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    On Thursday at SPBGMA, Rhonda Vincent shared a fun story from the Twitterverse. As her fans well understand, Rhonda is a tireless proponent of social media, spending bus and plane time updating her Facebook and Twitter feeds, sharing her travels with

  • The littlest ‘Duster

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    Travis Book, bassist and vocalist with The Infamous Stringdusters, and his wife, singer and songwriter Sarah Siskind, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Ruby Dell Book was born on Thursday morning (1/31) at 4:10 a.m. (EST), weighing in at

  • Boxcars looking forward to 3rd CD

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    The Boxcars, two-time and reigning IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year, have recently completed recording for their next project, due this Spring from Mountain Home. The band's even more lavishly award-winning mandolinist, Adam Steffey, suggests that if you enjoyed their first

  • Introducing WestWend

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    A pair of East Tennessee grassers, Wendy Crowe and Jonathan Maness, have joined forces in a new group called WestWend. The two met by chance at a radio show in 2011, just as Wendy was set to start work on a debut recording.