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Bobby Osborne's second CD release with his new band, Rocky Top X-Press, is due from Rounder Records on July 10. Bluegrass Melodies will showcase the soulful voice and mandolin prowess of this 75 year old music legend. The new CD was produced by Osborne and Glen Duncan, and includes three new original songs that Bobby [...]
The state of Kentucky Department of Parks is teaming up with America's Bluegrass Inc. to promote both bluegrass music and the state parks. A series of four concerts are to be held at three of the state parks this spring/summer in what is being called the Cradle of Bluegrass Music Trail. The series features Kentucky [...]
Pinecastle has wonderful news for fans of The Osborne Brothers. They are set to release a 3 disk set recorded on July 30, 1989 in Streekermoor, Germany entitled, appropriately enough, The Osborne Brothers: Live In Germany. Tom Riggs at Pinecastle says that this is just the first of several unreleased Osborne Brothers recordings which they [...]
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 [...]
Bobby Osborne will be the special guest tomorrow (1/5) on the Muldoon In The Afternoon show on WorldWideBluegrass.com. Bobby will join host Gracie Muldoon at 1:30 p.m. (EST) to discuss his plans for 2007, and his long and storied career in bluegrass music. You can hear the interview online on WWB, where they stream bluegrass [...]
Mountain Heart will be a featured performer on the 11/25 edition of The Grand Ole Opry on WSM radio out of Nashville. They will perform during the 9:30-10:00 p.m. and 12:30-1:00 a.m. segments (EST). Also on the show this week are Mike Snider (8:00-8:30 and 10:00-10:30 slots) and Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press [...]
After a week that has been non-stop activity, the Grascals topped off this most memorable week with a trip to the Grand Ole Opry and an appearance at Fan Fest. The whole tv portion was devoted to bluegrass tonight and it was so electric backstage, you could hear the buzzin' in the hallways. Had a bomb gone [...]
We just heard from Fred Bartenstein about a special Osborne Brothers radio special he has been working on for nearly two years. It was produced by WNKU (Northern KY University) and Bgrass Inc., a nonprofit which Bartenstein chairs, dedicated to preserving and celebrating the bluegrass music heritage of southern Ohio. The two hour program, hosted [...]
Bobby Osborne is on the cover of the new issue of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, in the mail now to subscribers. The title, and the theme of the article is On His Own, referencing Bobby's having embarked on a career as a solo artist and bandleader after half a century performing with his brother Sonny. They [...]
A while back I posted to tell you about Bobby Osborne's new CD Try A Little Kindness. At the time I could find no audio samples online, but they are available now. Bobby has 3 mp3 samples available on his website. Rounder has windows media and real audio samples for every song available on their [...]
