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Here are Frank Baker's photos from Thursday night at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. He is busily uploading more images from the rest of the weekend, and we will post them over the next day or so.
When the Passamano family moved from their homes in southern California to Nashville to relocate Rural Rhythm Records last year, they gave two specific reasons. One, and most obviously, was to be closer to the artists whose music they release, and the other to work towards a greater integration of their artists with music television [...]
Rural Rhythm has dropped a debut single from Hard Country, this summer's scheduled release from Audie Blaylock and Redline. The songs is A Natural Thing, written by the late Harley Allen, and featuring Audie on lead vocal and guitar. He is joined by members of his touring band (Russ Carson on banjo and Patrick McAvinue [...]
Paying tribute to Bill Monroe with a recording of his songs presents a different challenge than it would for any other musician I can think of. The prime mover behind the creation of bluegrass music, his output forms more of the standard repertoire of his genre than, say, Louis Armstrong's does for jazz or Robert [...]
Russ Carson is the full-time banjo player with Audie Blaylock and Redline, who has released his debut solo project, Last Chance, on Patuxent Records. It features Russ along with a red-hot rhythm section - and several terrific vocalists - on 14 strong tracks. Like so many contemporary solo projects, the album showcases Carson's impressive banjo [...]
The latest CD from Audie Blaylock and Redline, I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky, was released this past Monday (5/30). As we had mentioned in earlier posts, this one is a concept album, a Bill Monroe tribute. It was recorded with Blaylock's touring band, and special guests Ronnie McCoury on mandolin, Jason Carter and Glen [...]
Next Tuesday (May 31) is the official release date for Audie Blaylock & Redline's terrific Bill Monroe tribute album, I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky. It's actually available now as a digital download online with CDs shipping next week. The record finds Audie and his fine band meeting up in the studio with Del and [...]
Audie Blaylock is using the Centennial of Bill Monroe's birth as the occasion to release a tribute project on Rural Rhythm, appropriately titled, I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky. Recorded with his road band, Redline, the Big Mon album also features guest artists Del and Ronnie McCoury, Bobby Osborne, Lou Reid, Carl Jackson, Glenn Duncan [...]
After touring of late as a four piece group, Audie Blaylock has announced the addition of Jason Wood from Statesville, NC on mandolin. In addition to being a talented young mandolinist and guitarist, Jason has the rare distinction of being a left handed player - using a left handed mandolin. I saw Wood recently on [...]
Rural Rhythm Records is to lead the way in marking the Bill Monroe Centennial with the first of three CDs; the Various Artists set Blue Moon of Kentucky – Instrumental Tribute to Bill Monroe (Rural Rhythm Records RUR CD 1075), to be released on January 25. The collection showcases instrumental versions of some of Bill [...]
