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Here's your chance to get a free track from the new Mountain Heart CD, Road That Never Ends - The Live Album. The track is While The Gettin's Good, a new song written by Josh Shilling, Jim Van Cleve and Craig Market. In order to get the free MP3 download, you'll need to be a [...]
Back in the spring, we posted about a new book on the history of the WBT Briarhoppers. The book, The WBT Briarhoppers - Eight Decades of a Bluegrass Band Made for Radio, by Tom and Lucy Warlick, has been released by McFarland & Company. The book chronicles the history of one of the longest-running American [...]
Get yours while the gettin's good! Don't forget that today (10/22) between noon and 10:00 p.m. (ET), any registered user of Bluegrass Today can download a free track from the new Mountain Heart live CD, Road That Never Ends. The track is While The Gettin's Good, a new song written by Josh Shilling, Jim Van [...]
We've written a good bit this past few months about Josh Shilling, the newest member of Mountain Heart who had the unenviable job of taking the spot held by founding member, Steve Gulley, on guitar and vocals. Josh and the rest of the band will release their newest CD, Road That Never Ends - The [...]
This past Friday evening (10/19), The Steep Canyon Rangers played a show here in Roanoke, VA. I was familiar with their recordings, and caught a few brief sets at IBMA, but this was my first chance to see them live in an extended club concert setting. They performed before a full house at the the [...]
Here's another reminder about the Butch Baldassari benefit concert to be held tomorrow, October 22, on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. A long-time and greatly-beloved member of the mandolin community, Butch is battling an inoperable brain tumor, and proceeds from the concert will be given to Butch to help with both medical [...]
Brance posted on Tuesday about the special Station Inn performance this week by Mashville Brigade and friends. The band was initially formed late in '06 by Ashby Frank and a number of other hot young pickers when Frank was living in Nashville and working with Alecia Nugent's band. It included Jim Van Cleve on fiddle, [...]
Rhonda Vincent is running a new contest, offering those who pre-order her new CD the chance to win a piece of bluegrass history. The first place winner will receive the Weber mandolin Rhonda is holding on the cover. Second places gets you a Shure KSM-44 microphone she used in the studio recording this project, and [...]
When we noted the release of Claire Lynch's new CD earlier this month, we mentioned that audio samples were not available yet online. Well, they are now. Rounder Records has samples from all 14 tracks of Crowd Favorites up on their web site. The CD is part of Rounder's Cream Of The Crop series, which [...]
Clarence "Tater" Tate, a long-time member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys and Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass, passed away on Wednesday. Tater had been battling lung cancer for some time, and will be fondly remembered as long as people play bluegrass music. In his later years, he served as an instructor in the bluegrass music program [...]
