Bobby Osborne nights at Legion Post 82 in Nashville
It’s not uncommon during the winter months to see top touring acts playing smaller clubs to keep their stage show fresh for when the festival season starts back up in the spring. But we don’t often find bluegrass legends in that situation. If you live in or near Nashville, however, you’ll have three mid-week opportunities […]
Enter to win in the annual Becky Buller Band Ugly Christmas Sweater contest
With Christmas music playing everywhere we go, and the year end chill already in the air in most of the northern hemisphere, it's time once again for the 4th annual Becky Buller Band Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. As in years past, it's quite easy to enter. Just don your ugliest Christmas sweater, take a photo [...] Video Premiere: White Line Fever from Bobby Osborne
Compass Records has a new music video today from bluegrass icon, Bobby Osborne, a remake of a classic Merle Haggard number. Osborne told us yesterday that he has spent more than 70 of his 89 years as a professional bluegrass performer, during which time he played as a member of the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, before [...] Bobby Osborne covers Merle Haggard on White Line Fever
Bobby Osborne with Alison Brown of Compass Records at Bonnaroo in 2017 - photo by Jay Blakesburg Compass Records also has a new single out today, a bluegrass cover of the great Merle Haggard's White Line Fever, sung by the legendary Bobby Osborne. Alison Brown, co-founder of Compass, had the idea to speed the song [...] Scott Napier offers another LP “must have” mandolin records giveaway
Scott Napier, professional bluegrass mandolinist and Associate Professor at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music, is doing another giveaway from his rich collection of bluegrass albums. Back in August, he did this once before, giving away five classic records to young pickers learning the ways of the grass. This time, Scott is again [...] Bobby Osborne and Ronnie Reno collaborate on I Can’t Stop Loving You
Creative people in our musical sphere have found different ways to cope and endure during this year's forced shutdowns, when live performances have been all but prohibited and, for many in our industry, the ability to earn an income has been proscribed. We've seen some take it in stride, using the unexpected "free" time to [...] Never Ending Song Of Love from Hugh Moore & Friends
If you spend any time online, you will have seen some of these social distancing music videos where performers record a video together from various locations around the country, or around the world. They have popped up in every imaginable style, and at every conceivable level of expertise and quality. Because of the relative ease [...] Original Bobby Osborne picks from Breezy Ridge Instruments
Most bluegrass mandolin players know that Bobby Osborne has his own personalized pick - one of the first to do so in fact. Osborne Brothers fans can see it wedged behind the strings of his iconic Gibson Fern mandolin on many of their old record albums and in publicity photos for well over four decades. [...] Bluegrass legends accept honorary doctorates from Glenville State
In a solemn ceremony Friday at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville, six legendary figures in bluegrass music were presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Glenville State College in Glenville, WV. Things got started with a solo rendition of Bill Monroe's Evening Prayer Blues by Luke Shamblin, a former [...] Honorary Doctorates for bluegrass pioneers
Jesse McReynolds receives a letter of intent from Megan Darby for his honorary doctorate from Glenville State Glenville State College in West Virginia, one of several institutes of higher learning to offer a bachelors degree in bluegrass music, has announced plans to confer honorary doctorates on a number of bluegrass pioneers deserving of the recognition. [...] 