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The winners of our recent Mountain Heart giveaway have all been contacted, and prizes are on the way. Thanks to everyone who participated in that promotion - downloading the free track from the band's newest CD, or entering the contest for free CDs and other Mountain Heart merch. The winners were: Bob Poole - Appomattox, [...]
Mandolin Cafe has details on another Butch Baldassari benefit concert, this time in Seattle on December 1 at Dusty Strings. Regular readers of Bluegrass Today will recall that Butch was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor earlier this year, and has been undergoing rigorous and aggressive chemo and radiation therapy to arrest the growth of [...]
The Associated Press is reporting that last night's American Music Awards on ABC featured an unexpected duet between country sensation Sugarland and pop mega-star Beyonce Sugarland has been performing an acoustic version of the Beyonce song, Irreplaceable, in their stage show, and their publicist was able to arrange the impromptu duet for the AMA show. [...]
The new music video from Uncle Earl can be viewed online, at www.stereogum.com. The video is for the tune, Streak o' Lean, Streak o' Fat from their current CD, Waterloo, Tennessee. It is a comical and quirky take on the tune, with the g'earls finding their dinner at a Chinese restaurant interrupted by a West [...]
Tonight's (11/18) edition of BanjoTalk will be a Bill Sullivan Tribute show. BanjoTalk is a live, online, call-in radio show hosted by Dave Pericone at BanjoTalk.com. The show begins at 8:00 p.m. (EST), with Eric Sullivan (Bill's son) joining David to remember the many contributions Bill Sullivan made to the banjo and bluegrass community before [...]
Speaking of Cadillac Sky... Their first music video is set to debut tomorrow (11/18) on GAC TV. It's for the song, Born Lonesome, from their current Skaggs Family release, Blind Man Walking. C-Sky's Bryan Simpson said that working with director Roger Pistole was a great experience. "Yeah... working with Roger was awesome. He's done videos [...]
Just as we head into the frantic holiday shopping season, Mel Bay Publications has a new book/CD set designed as a companion purchase for parents who will put a new banjo under the tree for their young children. Easiest Banjo Tunes for Children was written by Larry McCabe, who has several other Mel Bay instructional [...]
The appearance by Larry Keel & Natural Bridge on WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour from this past Monday - which Brance had mentioned earlier - can now be viewed as an online video. They perform several songs - including some new ones not yet released on CD - and chat briefly with Woodsongs host Michael [...]
Rural Rhythm Records has just released the first single from their upcoming Tim Hensley project, Long Monday. Bluegrass radio hosts and stations should be receiving their copy today (11/15), Tim's rendition of the Rodney Crowell song, Ridin' Out The Storm. Tim has spent time with Ricky Skaggs, as well as country artists Patty Loveless and [...]
We hear from Hadley Music Group that Donna Ulisse was recently back in the studio with producer/guitarist Keith Sewell and Andy Leftwich on fiddle and mandolin laying down some basic tracks on new songs she had written. Ulisse discussed this in a recent interview... "I like to do pre-production work on everything I write that [...]
