Author: John Lawless

  • Acoustic Music Seminar applications due Dec 1

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    Attention talented young string players... Applications for the 2014 Acoustic Music Seminar at the Savannah Music Festival must be turned in by December 1. The week long seminar runs from March 30-April 5 in Savannah, GA and is open to musicians

  • Burren Backstep from Niall Toner

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    Irish grasser Niall Toner has released a music video for his mandolin instrumental, Burren Backstep, included on his current Pinecastle project, Onward & Upwards. It's a performance video of this simple but haunting tune, which Niall says came to him while relaxing in

  • Wasson/Hymer depart American Drive

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    American Drive, who formed from the remaining members of the New South when J.D. Crowe retired at the end of 2012, has announced some personnel changes. Guitarist and vocalist Rickey Wasson and banjo picker Josh Hymer are leaving the group. Wasson wants

  • Mountain Twerker video released

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    Hide your grandpas... the mountain twerking Granny is on the loose! The music video for Mountain Twerker, a single recently released by The Darrell Brothers, is now available as well. It tells the story of their dear old Granny, who the

  • Once For Sadie video from Velvet Blue

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    Kentucky's Velvet Blue has released a debut music video from their new CD, Memories & Heartaches. It's for the song Once For Sadie, written by band members Brian Cooper, Carrie Johnson and Taylor Hampton. Cooper is on guitar and lead vocal,

  • Was It You video from Joy Kills Sorrow

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    Close observers of the acoustic music scene will have noted growth this past few years in a fairly new offshoot of bluegrass music. So new that it doesn't yet have its own subgeneric classification. Unlike the jam grass scene, its practitioners

  • Edgar Loudermilk leaving IIIrd Tyme Out

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    2014 will bring a very different look for Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out. In addition to last week's announcement that banjo player Steve Dilling would be leaving at the end of this year, Moore has announced today that bass player

  • Henhouse Prowlers headed to Africa

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    Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers are on their way to Africa for a month of shows, after a couple of days early this week in Washington, DC for orientation. They were chosen for this tour by the American Voices program on behalf of the

  • Back to the ’60s with the Steeps

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    Music lovers of a certain age will recall a British duet team called Peter & Gordon who had a number of hit songs during the mid-to-late 1960s. Their first big number was with a song Paul McCartney wrote as a