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The 30th Anniversary compilation CD from The Dry Branch Fire Squad which Richard Thompson wrote about last month is due for release tomorrow (5/15). Carrying the appropriate title of 30th Anniversary Special, the CD contains 21 tracks taken from earlier releases over the course of the band's thirty year career, plus 4 previously unreleased tracks. [...]
The Lewis Family have a new compilation project due for release this month on Daywind Records. The CD is entitled Handpicked, and includes their very favorite tracks from previous releases, fourteen in all. The CD booklet also features comments about each song, and why it was selected for this compilation. The tracks include: A Rose [...]
We heard recently from Michael Hedrick, who hosts a 4 hour bluegrass radio show each Saturday on WMTN in Morristown, TN. They broadcast at AM 1300, but Michael asked us to also invite bluegrass lovers all over the world to join him online every Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to noon (eastern). The audio should stream [...]
Richard Harrington has a nice piece in this morning's Washington Post on the current Alison Krauss & Union Station tour featuring the music - and the person - of Tony Rice. "My love and admiration for Tony goes back to what made me really want to play music," Krauss says, recalling recently that she heard [...]
The folks at Wechter Guitars have put together a video called Crafting Wechter Guitars, shot by award-winning photojournalist Mark Bugnaski. It is available for viewing (in two parts) on YouTube. The video shows craftsmen at work in the Wechter shop, and is presented in a documentary style, without narration. It runs just over six minutes [...]
Eric and Leigh Gibson will return to The Bluegrass Guide's Songwriter Chat on Monday, May 14 at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). This online chat forum is hosted monthly by Rick Lang, and is designed to give songwriters an opportunity to interact with successful bluegrass writers from the comfort of their computer screens. There is no fee [...]
There will be a special bluegrass performance on this Friday's (5/11) edition of The Blue Plate Special, at noon on WDVX. The show will feature a live (in-studio) set with Butch Baldassari (mandolin), Barbara Lamb (fiddle), Kathy Chiavola (guitar/vocal) and Mike Bub (bass). While this bunch does not tour together regularly, they will occasionally do [...]
Rural Rhythm Records has posted two music video performances and a video bio from Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain, featuring special guest Jim VanCleve on fiddle. The videos (also available on YouTube) are for two tracks from her self-titled debut CD, and include Seven Miles From Wichita (currently #7 on the Bluegrass Unlimited Singles chart) [...]
Here's an interesting story that I missed while I was out of town last week. CMT.com put up a nice feature last Wednesday on Nashville's long-time bluegrass headquarters, The Station Inn. Since the club first began promoting bluegrass shows in the early 1980s, it has been the unquestioned hot spot for bluegrass fans and artists [...]
We have posted a number of times in the past few months about the new royalty rates for Internet radio established by the US Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates represent a dramatic increase in the royalties owed to both songwriters and performers for Internet music broadcasts, with artists welcoming the change and Internet broadcasters [...]
