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Here's a YouTube clip of Toby Keith singing Please Come Home For Christmas on the Ellen show December 6. Rob Ickes is prominently featured on dobro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1BoXgzC4f0
The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) has announced the nominees for their 2008 Bluegrass Music Awards. Unlike the awards handed out by the International Bluegrass Music Association - which are awarded based on several rounds of ballots by peers and industry pros - the SPBGMA Awards are determined by fan [...]
Steve Huber and his talented team of craftsmen at Huber Banjos have a new model in their line. The Berkshire was introduced officially at this past October's IBMA convention in Nashville and is featured in their 2008 catalog. It was designed to address customer demand for a flame maple, nickel-plated banjo, and is the first [...]
Count Down Yonder is the name of the newest show to debut on Sirius Bluegrass, channel 65 on the Sirius Satellite Radio network. Each Friday at 3:00 p.m. they will announce and spin the top 17 songs as determined by listener requests. Host Chris Jones tells us that there isn't any special significance to the [...]
Tickets for the two week Robert Plant and Alison Krauss European tour go on sale today (12/14). There are currently 12 dates booked in May of 2008, with four shows in England amidst stops in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Norway. The touring band has not been announced, but we hope to get those details [...]
Doyle Lawson is packing up his merry band and heading for New York City to perform live on A Prairie Home Companion this Saturday evening (12/15). They have two Christmas tunes ready - an instrumental medley and a different take on Jingle Bells - but aren't sure what host Garrison Keillor has in mind for [...]
Pete Stover, general manager of Bluegrass FM, sent us a note about the launch of their second all bluegrass radio station in Virginia. What makes this regional story of wider interest is the income stream they use to support the station's programming. They operate as a private business on the FM spectrum, yet depend on [...]
We just got a note from Darren Beachley of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver letting us know that he will start work soon co-producing a second CD from Bill Yates, A Tribute to The Country Gentlemen Vol. 2. Darren will be producing along with Yates as executive producer on this second set of re-recordings of classic [...]
It's been just three months since Tom Adams announced that he'd be giving the banjo a rest, but music fans at London's East End Pub were treated to the rejuvenated strains of Adams' new sound and the new group he's fronting, Iron Mitten. Although Monday night's concert was in direct competition with Led Zeppelin's reunion [...]
With the television writer's strike in its sixth week, speculation has been rife that the 2008 American TV season would lean even heavier on reality shows. Right on time, CMT has announced that they have teamed up with the producers of American Idol to launch Can You Duet, a singing competition where vocal duos go [...]
