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2007 has been a very good year for Jason Davis. This 18 year old banjo player was chosen to pick with the newly-formed Grasstowne as 2006 was drawing to a close, and has gotten rave reviews for his playing on their debut CD, The Road Headin' Home. He has almost completed his debut solo project, [...]
Cherryholmes has announced the winners in a contest we told you about in late May, drawn from customers who pre-ordered a copy of their new CD, Cherryholmes II - Black and White, from their web site. The grand prize of a Bourgeois Country Boy guitar was won by Mark Coffee of Penrose, CO. Other winners [...]
Here's an update on a story we reported back in April... When we passed along news that Blue Highway's 8th CD was in the works, Tim Stafford suggested that it might be released later this year. Word now comes that Rounder is looking at a release in February, 2008. The recording is now finished and [...]
The Alison Krauss special on GAC we posted about last month, which was originally set to air this weekend, has been postponed until a later date. "Technical difficulties" is the reason given by GAC, and no rescheduled date has been announced. This show features songs from the most recent Krauss release, A Hundred Miles Or [...]
XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14) has relaesed their July Top 40, based on listener requests and how often individual albums are featured. June's top 5 albums were: #1 Cherryholmes II Cherryholmes #2 Long List Of Hearthaches The Grascals #3 Old Photograph Randy Kohrs & The Lites #4 Life Stories Larry Stephenson Band #5 [...]
Just a quick reminder about a live performance Brance told us about last month. Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs will be appearing on this Friday's (7/13) edition of the CBS Early Show, along with Ricky's band, Kentucky Thunder. They will perform songs from their recent collaboration, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby, live from Raleigh, NC. [...]
Noted instructor and instrumentalist Dix Bruce has two new book/CD sets for fans of the Hot Club of France sound, popularized by Django Rhinehart. They are titled Gypsy Swing & Hot Club Rhythm, with one for mandolin and another for guitar. Each book has the basic melody for a dozen swing tunes (standard notation and [...]
Billboard is reporting a couple of new bits of information about the upcoming Merle Haggard acoustic/bluegrass CD we had told you about late last year. We had reported that this new recording would feature Hag and some of Nashville's top bluegrass players on a set of familiar bluegrass songs, along with some new and classic [...]
The Dixie Bee-Liners are the newest member of the Pinecastle Records family, with their first full-length CD project, Ripe, expected early in 2008. Their debut, self-titled release was a short form CD with 8 tracks, released in 2005. It spent over a year on the Roots Music Report bluegrass chart, cracking the top 10 for [...]
Flatpicking and bluegrass guitar superstar Wyatt Rice will be conducting a four-day workshop on bluegrass rhythm guitar at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch, August 24-27, 2007. Bluegrass fans know Wyatt for his many years playing guitar with brother Tony in The Tony Rice Unit, and well as stints with Santa Cruz and Ronnie Bowman. Wyatt [...]
