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We've posted many times about the new secular CD from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, More Behind The Picture Than The Wall. It's officially released today (3/27), and can be purchased wherever bluegrass music is sold, online or in the real world. If you ordered directly from Doyle's web site, you should be receiving your copy [...]
CMT.com has a piece up that features an interview with banjo picker Tony Trischka. It is focused on his recent release, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, which includes Tony and a host of celebrated banjoists in twin banjo arrangements. Earl Scruggs, Tom Adams, B?©la Fleck, Scott Vestal, Noam Pikelny and many more share the banjo duties [...]
Yesterday's edition of The Washington Post included a brief review of the new release from Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby, which Brance mentioned earlier this year. It features both Skaggs and Hornsby as vocalists and instrumentalists, with Skaggs' Kentucky Thunder band as the primary rhythm section. The music includes mostly new compositions from the pair, [...]
John Prine and Mac Wiseman have teamed up for a set of great country music classics on a new CD from Oh Boy Records. Standard Songs For Average People was officially released on Saturday (3/24), and features the two legends (from different genres) sharing songs that the chose together when the project was initially being [...]
A reminder and a correction regarding Blue Highway singing the National Anthem before this afternoon's NASCAR Busch race in Bristol, TN... Look for Shawn Lane, Tim Stafford and Wayne Taylor to kick off the race with the Star Spangled Banner shortly after the telecast begins at 3:00 p.m. (eastern) on Saturday, March 24. When we [...]
When Brance reminded us last week about the debut of The Tensions Mountain Boys at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), I was hoping to see at least one review in the New York press over the weekend. But no... I've been on the lookout for reviews, and have found but a few - surprisingly, given the [...]
If you've not yet tired of the discussion about the newly announced royalty rates for Internet radio (now apparently being reconsidred), you might be interested in this post from Wired magazine's blog. It contains the full text of the testimony that Bob Kimball, Senior VP of RealNetworks, gave to the US House of Representative's Subcommittee [...]
Claire Lynch and her talented band will be the guests on Friday morning (3/23) with Carole Beaugard on Lonesome Pine RFD. The show airs from 10:00 a.m. until noon (eastern) on WFDU FM, broadcast from the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. The band will perform live in the WFDU studio, and [...]
Hal Ponder, the Legislative Director for the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), circulated a message by email yesterday to the union membership with regard to the brewing controversy over the recent Copyright Royalty Board rate structure. It presents the union's take on the rate increase, which it describes as "pro-musician," and urges its membership to [...]
Jayme Stone is a banjo player whose music is hard to categorize. In fact, you might say that it has no boundaries. You could say the same thing about his whereabouts. With a new CD, The Utmost, due for release in May, Jayme is currently in Mali doing research and field recording for another upcoming [...]
