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Secrets for Successful Flatpicking is the title of a new instructional DVD on Homespun Video with current, and five time IBMA Guitar Player of The Year, Bryan Sutton. The DVD covers both lead and rhythm guitar playing and is described a "tricks of the trade" presentation to help improve flatpicking speed, power, timing and musicianship [...]
This week's edition of Studio Special on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14) features bluegrass singer Michelle Nixon. The show will be a mix of live performance by Michelle and her Band (Drive), and conversation with host Kyle Cantrell. The show debuts today (10/27) at 8:00 a.m., with rebroadcasts throughout the next week. Airtimes [...]
Pinecastle Records has two new CD releases that should be of interest to readers of Bluegrass Today. Jack Cooke has spent the past 37 years working as the bass player with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys. Before that, he had been a member of both Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys and The Stanley Brothers. [...]
Nickel Creek fans who are still processing the news that the band will not be performing together much longer can take heart with one bit of news. Sugar Hill is set to release a special retrospective on the band next month, which will include 12 audio tracks from their previously released projects, 2 live audio [...]
The Alison Krauss/Vince Gill pairing on CMT's Cross Country which we mentioned last month is scheduled to debut on Friday (10/27) at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The concept behind Cross Country is to have two popular artists performing together on stage, with each singing songs from the other's catalog of hits. This show was taped in [...]
Washburn Guitars is proud to note that their D10S guitar was honored earlier this month during the prestigious Music Industry Association Awards in London. The MIA is a British musical products trade association, roughly equivalent to NAAM, which started as US music trade association, but no has a more international scope. The MIA Awards celebrate [...]
We have a number of new posts up on The B, with at least one that is generating some interesting back and forth. Check the post on Live Soundboard Recordings to witness the virulent disagreements elicited by the opposing sides of the live show trading debate. The comments brought up there echo the thoughts expressed [...]
Mark Newton will be on XM's Bluegrass Junction tomorrow (10/25) with a World Premier of his new Rebel release, Hillbilly Hemingway. The CD won't be officially released until November 7, but Mark and producer Carl Jackson will join XM's Kyle Cantrell at 3:00 p.m. from XM's studio at The Country Music Hall Of Fame in [...]
Mountain Heart guitarist Clay Jones will be online with Gracie Muldoon later today, during her Muldoon In The Afternoon show on WorldWideBluegrass.com. The show airs Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m. (eastern), and Clay will be on with Gracie this afternoon, starting at 1:30. Listen online via either a broadband or dial up stream.
Brance and I had the opportunity this past weekend to catch Chris Thile and his How To Grow A Band show in concert at The Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA. As the band name implies, they are on tour in support of Chris' new release, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground. Band members [...]
