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Kenny & Amanda Smith will join Mike Kelly this morning on A Cumberland Sunday Morning, broadcast on WDVX in Knoxville, TN from 8:00 a.m. until noon (ET). Mike will be playing fine bluegrass Gospel music all morning, and talking with Kenny and Amanda in between songs. Mike said that we are sure to hear some [...]
Of this fall's new releases, few have received as much attention in the music business press as Raising Sand from Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, just out on Rounder Records. The notion of the sweet-voiced bluegrass balladeer teamed with the former Led Zeppelin vocalist, and super-hot producer T-Bone Burnett was too tempting to resist, and [...]
When Nickel Creek performs live tonight (11/2) at Washington DC nightspot 9:30 Club, National Public Radio's microphones will be set up, carrying the entire concert live via online streaming at NPR.org. The band is in the home stretch of their Farewell (For Now) tour, after which the three members (Chris Thile, Sean Watkins and Sara [...]
The nominating committee for the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences, who distribute the Grammy Awards each year, decided yesterday that the new release from Merle Haggard, titled The Bluegrass Sessions would not be eligible for Grammy consideration in the Best Bluegrass Album category in this year's voting. Billboard reported today that despite the [...]
The Nashville office of Sugar Hill Records has some staff changes to report, effective today (11/1). Molly Nagel, who has been serving as Director of Publicity will assume the duties of Senior Director of Artist Development, offering project and marketing management to Sugar Hill artists. Nagel has been with Sugar Hill for nine years, and [...]
This morning (11/1), BluegrassCountry.org has interviews on tap with a couple of bluegrass and acoustic music legends. Sam Bush drops by at 9:00 a.m. to talk with Katy Daley about his current tour with Edgar Meyer and Jerry Douglas, which stops tonight in DC. Then at 11:00, Lee Michael Demsey will preview his lengthy interview [...]
We've posted recently about banjo man Bill Emerson's new CD, Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band, and the former member of The Country Gentlemen, The Sunny Mountain Boys and the US Navy Band's Country Current coming back to music after several years in retirement. Country Standard Time has a wide ranging interview with Bill [...]
The newest release from David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label is a duo project featuring he and John Sebastian. Entitled Satisfied, it features these two on acoustic guitar, mandolin family instruments and harmonica on a mixed set of songs and tunes. The 14 selections are taken from the repertoire of blues, folk and traditional music, plus [...]
Mountain Heart picked up an unusual last minute gig this past weekend that turned out to be something of a spooky good time for all concerned. Jim VanCleve tells us that they were returning home from Ashland, KY late Friday night, anticipating a rare Saturday off at home, when they got a call from country [...]
The Bradford Street Bluegrass show on WOMR-FM is being given over to haunts and haints tomorrow in honor of Halloween. The show airs regularly on Wednesday evenings from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (ET), so the program hosts decided to use a Halloween theme this week, and get listeners' suggestions for appropriate bluegrass songs to feature. Co-host Ben [...]
