Last year, we posted about a lovely album from Missy Werner, called Drifting And Dreaming. Missy has a fine voice, and a great knack for choosing songs that suit her style. We've heard this week from Jon Weisberger, who is producing
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Free Thile/Daves track
Regarding the upcoming Chris Thile & Michael Daves duo project we mentioned yesterday... Nonesuch is giving away a free track in exchange for your email address, Chris and Micheal's frenetic take on My Little Girl In Tennessee, famously recorded previously by
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Mountain Soul CD coming soon
Mountain Soul is a new young band based in Knoxville, TN. It's members have pretty solid resumes, showing time spent with The Grasshoppers, Lovell Sisters, Larkin Poe, Valerie Smith, Dixie Bee-Liners, Robinella and The Watkins Family. Daniel Kimbo plays bass, Jonathan
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Grascals are Mayberry bound
The Grascals have been out of late in support of their current album, The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin, which finds them teamed up with major country artists like Dolly Parton, Brad Paisely and Dierks Bentley.
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Chris Thile and Michael Daves
Chris Thile has engendered minor controversy in the bluegrass community since he began to veer off the main road with Nickel Creek in 2002. Rightly celebrated as an enfant terrible in the '90s, Thile's unpredictable musical adventures often left his
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Milk Drive – The Road From Home
Adventurous acoustic/alt-grassers Milk Drive are set to release The Road From Home, their first studio album, on April 5. This young Austin-based band includes Noah Jeffries on guitar, Dennis Ludiker on mandolin, Brian Beken on fiddle/vocals, and Matt Medford on bass.
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Banjo extravaganza in Galax
Galax, VA has a long history in the development and preservation of bluegrass and old time music. The annual Old Fiddlers Convention held there each year since 1936 draws thousands every year to jam, socialize and compete for the coveted
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Railroad Earth says howdy
Jam band favorites Railroad Earth have just released a video bio in advance of their Spring tour, which is currently in the US Midwest. Tim Carbone and Andrew Altman talk a bit on camera about who they are, and all like
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VW Boys Retroactive video
We posted last week about Retroactive, the debut CD from The VW Boys, released earlier this week. The trio from East Tennesee has also created a video to introduce themselves to new fans, and share a few of the songs included
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Songwriting analysis from Mark Simos
In the first part of our interview with Sierra Hull earlier this month, she discussed her current studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. One instructor she mentioned was Mark Simos, with whom she is studying lyric writing
