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Several folks have written in to remind us that Mountain Heart's video for Road That Never Ends is in the running this week on CMT Pure 12-Pack Countdown. Voting ends tonight (4/23) at 9:00 p.m., so head on over to CMT.com and cast your ballot if you want to see the guys score high in [...]
Here's a cautionary tale for bluegrass musicians who also like to try their hand at risky extreme sports. It comes from Jens Koch, the superb young banjo player with Swedish bluegrass group, G2. Three years ago - before G2 caught the ears of fans and critics alike at EBMA and IBMA - he broke his [...]
Our friend David Conner shared this YouTube link with us. It features a number of videos shot during an appearance by The Dan Tyminski Band at The Birchmere on March 1 of this year. Ten songs from the show are posted, including the title track from Dan's upcoming Rounder CD, Wheels, several cuts from his [...]
This week's edition of ABC's hit reality show, Wife Swap, will feature the Stockdale Family of Ohio as one of the subjects of the show's family exchange experiment. Kathy Stockdale is both the matriarch of her brood, and the manager of their bluegrass group, The Stockdale Family Band. The band features her husband, Tim, and [...]
The new CD from The Infamous Stringdusters won't be released until June 10 on Sugar Hill, but 'Dusters fans who can't wait for something new can take advantage of a special offer running now on the band's web site. Anyone who places a pre-order for The Infamous Stringdusters will receive a free download of a [...]
Once again, Claire Lynch is out to disprove the old canard about bluegrass fans being little more than illiterate hillbillies. Last year she held a competition where her fans submitted bluegrass-themed haiku. Now, she has launched a new contest challenging entrants to tell their life story in just six words. She is calling it her [...]
We have a fun promotion that will start later this week in conjunction with tomorrow's (3/22) release of Bluegrass Smash Hits Volume 1 from The Mashville Brigade. This is the side-gig featuring five of Nashville's top pickers who get together on Tuesday nights to perform bluegrass favorites at The Station Inn. Members include Jim Van [...]
Here is the final installment in our interview series with four of the folks who run prominent bluegrass-oriented record labels. Previous posts have discussed how these labels' sales in 2007 compared with the dire trends in the wider record business, the sales of digital audio versus manufactured discs and the future of the album format. [...]
In this installment of our interview series with bluegrass label heads, we'll look at how they see the distribution model for bluegrass changing in the near term. As before, we spoke with Dave Freeman of Rebel Records, Ken Irwin of Rounder Records, Sam Passamano of Rural Rhythm Records and Tom Riggs of Pinecastle Records. The [...]
The White Sands Music Festival in Milton, FL will be operating a live webcam from the stage tonight (4/18) and all day Saturday (4/19) while the festival is underway. Performers include Blue Moon Rising, Gary Waldrep, Nothin' Fancy and hosts White Sands Panhandle Band among others. Just visit the festival web site, and you'll see [...]
