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It's a fair bet that many of our US readers were, at one point in their life, readers of the popular children's books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. If not, odds are that they watched episodes of the equally popular television series based on the books, Little House On The Prairie. Dale Cockrell, a professor of [...]
Gibson has made a brief video lesson from Sonny Osborne available on their web site. It is taken from his Homespun DVD, The Bluegrass Banjo of Sonny Osborne, and has him demonstrating his solo for Sunny Side Of The Mountain. The video clip runs about a minute and a half, and a tab for the [...]
When AcuTab's book of Herschel Sizemore mandolin transcriptions went out of print earlier this year, the company had no plans for a reprint. Though the book had found an appreciative audience with serious students of bluegrass mandolin, declining book sales for their tab books had led AcuTab to focus their efforts on DVD releases, one [...]
We just received news of the arrival of Hogan Wayne Benson, who was born on October 6, 2006. His parents are Kristin Scott Benson, banjo picker with Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, and Wayne Benson, mandolinist with The John Cowan Band. If ever a child was born with an impeccable bluegrass pedigree, young Hogan [...]
When I profiled Lefty's Old Guitar, the new release from J.D. Crowe & The New South yesterday, I mentioned that no audio samples had yet turned up online. The Rounder site still has no audio, but samples are now available in iTunes. If you have the iTunes software installed, you can hear a snippet from [...]
Original Country Radio Network, previous owner of 24/7 online bluegrass outlet WorldWideBluegrass.com, has folded operation. Ownership and operation of WWB has been undertaken by Gracie Muldoon, who functioned as both an on-air host and station manager while the streaming radio station was under the OCRN umbrella. The site (and the audio stream) was only down [...]
Porter Wagoner may not be among the names that come to mind when you think of bluegrass music, but he has recently produced a recording of bluegrass and Gospel by his former duet partner, Christie Lynn. The CD, Christie Lynn Sings Country, Gospel & Bluegrass on Gusto Records, features Lynn on a dozen cuts with [...]
This latest release from J.D. Crowe & The New South has been so long in coming that guitarist, vocalist and emcee Ricky Wasson had taken to joking on stage that he wasn't going to even suggest when it was due out any longer. Fans would know it was available when they saw it on the [...]
The Hot Rize concert DVD we mentioned a few weeks ago has been released, and can be ordered now from the Hot Rize web site. It features a concert performance at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Lousiville, KY from July of 1987, with the original members of the band - Tim O'Brien, Pete [...]
This morning's edition of The Tennessean, Nashville's primary daily newspaper, has a story about the turmoil that has erupted inside the IBMA leadership over the performance by the US Navy band Country Current during last week's International Bluegrass Music Awards. I suppose that any hopes that this story would stay out of the mainstream press [...]
