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OK... here is our final photo gallery from the 2007 IBMA Awards show on October 4 in Nashville. Special thanks to Tami Roth for getting us such superb photos. If you would like to see all of our coverage of the 2007 IBMA World of Bluegrass and Awards Show, just click the IBMA 2007 tag [...]
The Del McCoury Band is set to record two live shows next week, with an eye towards a possible live CD release. The shows are next Wednesday and Thursday (10/17-18) at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA. The folks at McCoury Music tell us that they haven't yet made a firm decision on [...]
Grasstowne made quite a splash at IBMA last week, partly because it was the first chance a great many people in bluegrass had to see and hear them perform live. To help combat that very issue, the band filmed a good bit of video last week in Nashville. He have (below) their performance of California [...]
Claire Lynch's latest Rounder release, Crowd Favorites, is out this week. As we mentioned in an earlier post, the CD includes both previously-released tracks from her prior Rounder projects, and four re-recorded songs from her Front Porch String Band days. There are no audio samples up yet on the Rounder site, but they have posted [...]
As promised, we'll have a couple more photo galleries from last week's IBMA festivities in Nashville. Here is a batch of photos from the party held backstage at The Grand Ole Opry house just prior to Thursday's International Bluegrass Music Awards. [...]
We just received an update from Dennis Satterlee, author of the upcoming biography of Red Allen, Teardrops In My Eyes. Dennis tells us that he expects to have copies of the book available within the next few weeks, and that the publisher, Plucked String Foundation, is offering free shipping on all orders received by October [...]
During an IBMA week conversation with John Eberle of Americana Mastering, an excellent suggestion for a new IBMA Award category came up. John remarked that, given the degree to which bluegrass artists and fans appreciate the subtleties of acoustic instrument tonality, it might be appropriate to consider an award for the best audio recording of [...]
Doyle Lawson has just announced the acquisition of another hot young picker. Twenty one year old dobro player Josh Swift is the newest member of Quicksilver, effective this past weekend. Josh had been performing until just recently as a member of Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain, and is understandably excited about his new gig. Doyle [...]
We've heard from a number of readers who were unable to view the photo galleries we had posted from IBMA last week. It seems to have been restricted to users of Internet Explorer 7, though not all IE 7 users were affected. In any event, we have modified the code to remove the tag that [...]
Great American Country (GAC) will be rebroadcasting their special Alison Krauss program tonight (10/8) and tomorrow on their cable TV network. The show, Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles Or More, finds Ms. Krauss in the studio, recreating many of the memorable performances from her recent CD of the same name. She sings duets with James [...]
