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Andy Hall's new solo project, Sound Of The Slide Guitar, is released today on Sugar Hill. As the title suggests, this recording focuses on Andy as a resophonic guitarist and is heavy on original tunes he has written of late. He is joined by his bandmates in The Infamous Stringdusters for most of the tracks [...]
Homespun Video has released two new instructional DVDs for mandolinists taught by Mike Marshall. The two releases each carry the title Mike Marshall's Mandolin Fundamentals for All Players, with DVD #1 subtitled Building Technique Through Exercises and Melodic Studies and DVD #2 Mastering Chords and Theory. The subtitles accurately describe what is covered in each [...]
When the Fox TV show Next Great American Band was airing in late 2007, we covered the show each week. Right from the first episode, there were two bluegrass/acoustic acts in the running for this American Idol-style competition, and Casey Henry provided us with updates on how they fared in the audience voting after each [...]
The new Blue Highway CD, Through The Window Of A Train, won't be officially released on Rounder until February 12, but the band now has copies for sale at their shows. They'll be hosting a CD release event at Nashville's Station Inn this Thursday (1/24), and will have the new CD with them there - [...]
The Tennessean, Nashville's hometown paper, ran a story yesterday (1/18) that Gibson Guitar Corp. will merge with TC Group, a Danish pro audio firm. The merger was announced at the NAMM Winter Show in California, and according to The Tennessean, the new company will remain headquartered in Nashville when the deal is finalized in February. [...]
Chris Pandolfi, banjo man with The Infamous Stringdusters, has posted a couple of works in progress on his MySpace page. The two tracks are tunes he has written and intends to record for a future solo project, and are presented in his MySpace music player as unaccompanied banjo recordings. One tune, Melancholy, is very modern [...]
Here's a cautionary story for those bluegrassers who prefer the tone of tortoise shell picks. Agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have indicted 10 people after a multi-year investigation for smuggling hawksbill tortoise shells as well as finished guitar picks and fiddle bows into the US from China. The hawksbill tortoise is listed [...]
Beard Guitars has just announced the introduction of their Jerry Douglas signature series model resophonic guitars. The Douglas models were unveiled today at the Winter NAMM show in CA. There aren't many details on the Beard site, but I'm sure we can get more information when they return from NAMM.
Cadillac Sky recently filmed a segment of CMT's online show, Unplugged at Studio 33o. They performed several songs from their most recent release, Blind Man Walking, and sat for an interview about their plans for 2008. Their show will debut at CMT.com on January 22, and there is a short sneak peek available there now. [...]
Audie Blaylock and his newly reformed Redline have released their first single, Lonesome Weary Heart. The track will be distributed shortly to bluegrass radio, but Audie sent us an audio sample so that folks can hear his new group, and as he put it, that they have the same "hard drivin' traditional bluegrass sound" that [...]
