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We caught up with Adam Steffey on Friday, and he shared some details on the upcoming - and highly-anticipated - debut recording from The Dan Tyminski Band. Adam told us that they would be getting together in Nashville on November 18 to take publicity photos and perhaps rehearse a bit, and then spend the next [...]
Another piece of news we picked up here at IBMA is the imminent launch of Dan Tyminski's band. All of the Union Station guys have been looking at a blank schedule for 2008, with Alison Krauss planning to take the year off from band work, and it seems to have been the opportune moment for [...]
Rebel Records has reissued two more classic out-of-print recordings as download-only releases. First up is a Lonesome River Band album from 1988, one which many recent fans of the band may learn about for the first time. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning came out on LP several years before the band took the bluegrass world by [...]
We had posted last month with news about AcuTab's Adam Stefffey's first-ever mandolin DVD. At the time we indicated that it would be available on June 12, but the release has been delayed until June 25. To atone for the delay, AcuTab is offering a special offer for the first 300 orders, a free autographed [...]
Adam Steffey's first-ever instructional DVD for mandolin is due for release from AcuTab Publications on June 12. It will be a two-DVD set, entitled My Approach To Bluegrass Mandolin. The first of the two disks focuses on Adam's approach to the instrument, including his thoughts on proper technique and how to build "authentic" bluegrass-sounding mandolin [...]
Mountain Heart is set to start work next week on their next CD - a live recording to be tracked at a number of shows over the next few weeks. Mandolinist Adam Steffey told us this morning that they had long wanted to record a live project, and that fans had been asking at shows [...]
We've written a good bit recently about Mountain Heart's new vocalist, Josh Shilling, and the reaction to the band's new sound. Today's edition of the Knoxville News Sentinel has an interview with Mountain Heart mandolinist Adam Stefey about this very topic. Adam talks about the recent departure of founding member Steve Gulley, and how they [...]
AcuTab has announced two new bluegrass instructional DVDs for release this spring, one each for banjo and mandolin. First up will be Bluegrass Banjo Master Class, featuring Bill Evans. This will be the fourth installment in AcuTab's popular Power Pickin' series, which to this point had been wholly dedicated to playing bluegrass banjo backup. The [...]
Some of the more popular bluegrass instrumental projects of recent years have been in a Pinecastle series which came to be called the Bluegrass Annual projects, as each was designated by the year in which it was released. Seven CDs were eventually included, starting with Bluegrass '95, and concluding with Bluegrass 2001. The series had [...]
Over the weekend I came across a post on Ron Block's website stating that overdubs are almost complete on what appears to be a new solo project from Ron. Overdubs continue in my basement studio. I'm looking to finish all my parts (acoustic and electric guitars, vocals, editing) by the time AKUS goes on the [...]
