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Banjo icon Terry Baucom has recently released a new instructional DVD titled Driving With The Duke. The DVD is hosted by Terry's wife, and award winning DJ, Cindy Baucom. Cindy and Terry review his history with the banjo and the various bands he has played with over the years, then get right to the picking. [...]
Bluegrass banjo has been fortunate to see so many capable practitioners of the art carrying the banner over its relatively short 60 year life. One of the banjo's most celebrated champions, Bill Emerson, has been largely missing from the performing scene for several years since his retirement, though he has made a number of notable [...]
Back in May, Brance posted about a new CD release from Kassie DePaiva, better known as Blair from the daytime drama, One Life To Live. Her CD, I Want To Love You, mixes bluegrass and country in a primarily-acoustic set, her third release as a solo artist. Tomorrow (9/21), Kassie will join Gracie Muldoon on [...]
As we reported back in June, Claire Lynch's next CD is set for an October 9 release on Rounder. Crowd Favorites is a "compilation with benefits" project, mixing 10 previously released tracks from her several Rounder projects with four newly recorded reworkings of songs she had performed with the Front Porch String Band. A full [...]
McCoury Music has made audio samples available online from their upcoming Merle Haggard CD, The Bluegrass Sessions. It is an all-acoustic project, produced by Ronnie Reno, with both Haggard songs and others he selected to sing to mark this new direction in his storied career. The tracks were recorded during the fall of 2006, including [...]
The new Washburn Baby Jumbo acoustic guitars, which had been announced earlier this year, are now shipping to dealers. Washburn is marketing these two new models as intended for players who like the sound of a larger body guitar, but want an instrument that is more compact, and in the case of the cutaway/electrified model, [...]
Bluegrass Gospel favorites, The Churchmen, recently welcomed fiddler Tim Smith to the band. Tim is a veteran bluegrass musician, having served as a member of The Bluegrass Cardinals. He has 1st place trophies from both Galax and Union Grove, and recording credits with such bluegrass luminaries as James King, The Country Gentlemen, and Jim Eanes [...]
Starting today, September 17, the folks at WAMU FM in Washington, DC will broadcast their 24/7 online bluegrass audio channel as an HD FM radio signal as well. DC area listeners with HD Radio receivers can find the new channel at 88.5-2. Folks without access to HD radio will notice that many of their favorite [...]
Regular readers of Bluegrass Today will have noted our unrestrained enthusiasm for mandolin prodigy Chris Thile's return to a more bluegrass-like vehicle for his creative energies. We not only cheered his re-embrace of the Bill Monroe bluegrass band format, we welcomed the opportunity to watch and hear him interact musically with artists that are his [...]
This Saturday (9/15), Radio Bluegrass International (RBI), an online radio service of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, will feature portions of their interviews with Jake Quesenberry, an important figure in west coast bluegrass, and a co-founder of the California Bluegrass Association. Jake passed away on July 3 of this year, but his reminiscences had been [...]
