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Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein, whose Rebel CD 2:10 Train was released earlier in March, are scheduled to tour with Emmylou Harris this summer. They will open for her starting in mid-June, with dates currently booked running through the end of July. More shows could be added, and all will be listed on the duo's [...]
This is the first post in a series we will run this week reporting on how the sales of recorded bluegrass music in 2007 compared with the trends in the wider music industry. We won't be analyzing sales data directly, but sharing what a number of large bluegrass-oriented record label heads have to say about [...]
Pinecastle Records has launched a new service on the label's web site, a download page for authorized radio programmers. Audio files will be posted as soon as they are released to radio with the choice of either MP3 or lossless Windows Media files. Stations/hosts must first be authorized by Pinecastle and receive a password, after [...]
Here's a follow up to our post earlier this week about Unlimited Tradition reforming: Shayne Bartley tells us that the band is now holding auditions for a bass player/tenor singer. He asks that anyone interested in the position should forward a recording that demonstrates both vocal ability and bass playing to: Unlimited Tradition 1116 Pawnee [...]
Rhonda Vincent has completed her newest music video, for the song I Gotta Start Somewhere, which will be the first from her latest Rounder release, Good Thing Going. This will be the 10th video for Rhonda and though she is delighted with the finish product, this one didn't come without a cost. One scene involved [...]
On Monday (4/14) we will start a multi-part series of posts comparing recorded music sales within the bluegrass world with what has been reported in the larger music industry. We interviewed Dave Freeman of Rebel Records, Ken Irwin of Rounder Records, Sam Passamano of Rural Rhythm Records and Tom Riggs and Ethan Burkhardt of Pinecastle [...]
Starting this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. (4/11 - EDT) there will be four opportunities to catch Blue Highway live on SIRIUS Bluegrass over the next few days. They will perform material from their latest CD, Through The Window Of A Train, whose title track has been voted #1 on SIRIUS for three weeks running. After [...]
Don't forget that noon on Friday (4/11 - EDT) is the deadline to enter the contest drawing for free tickets to see Mountain Heart and Tony Rice in Bristol, TN on Saturday. Five winners will each receive 2 tickets to the show on April 12, a show poster signed by Tony and the guys, plus [...]
We received a note recently from Shayne Bartley informing us that he and Ray Craft were in the process of reforming Unlimited Tradition. The band was a popular fixture on the festival circuit in the mid-to-late 1990s and officially disbanded in 2000. During their tenure, the band has included such members as Scottie Sparks, Randy [...]
Eugene Crabtree, who played banjo for many years with The James King Band, died suddenly yesterday (4/9) from a heart attack. He was 43 years old. We've not been able to find an obituary online, but understand that he died of a heart attack, and was found in his truck too late for any attempt [...]
