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Bobby Osborne has used the imminent release of his next album with Rocky Top X-Press as the occasion to record some remembrances of his storied career on video. The first episode of what is being called Bobby Osborne On The Air features him recalling how he and Sonny came to record Rocky Top, a song [...]
Rural Rhythm has dropped a single from New Bluegrass & Old Heartaches, their upcoming project for Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press. The song is I'm Going Back To The Mountain, a Jake Landers composition that had been recorded by The Osborne Brothers in the 1970s about the time they left Decca Records for CMH, [...]
A 4 minute trailer has been released from The Porchlight Sessions, a new documentary film from Anna Schwaber that seeks to provide a more accurate glimpse into the culture of bluegrass music and bluegrass people than is common provided in the pop culture. The story is told primarily in an interview format, and Schwaber collected [...]
Rhonda Vincent sent along this photo she snapped at the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival a few weeks back, to remind everyone that today (12/7/11) is the 80th birthday of the inimitable Bobby Osborne! Still running the road and playing bluegrass in his 8th decade. That's quite an achievement, above and beyond the legendary body [...]
Every November and March, a couple thousand bluegrass fans from all across the continent flood the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, OH for one of the top indoor bluegrass festivals in the country: The Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival. The festival is held in both the fall and spring in Wilmington. Many guests literally never go [...]
In addition to having a once in a lifetime date (11/11/11), all guests in attendance at the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival this past Friday experienced a once in a lifetime Veterans’ Day. The focal point of the evening was the legendary Bobby Osborne, who was honored on stage on the 60th Anniversary of his [...]
Bobby Osborne has created a folksy YouTube video with info about what he and Rocky Top X-Press are up to in September - complete with outtakes at the end. It was shot and edited by his son, Bobby Jr., who is also a member of his dad's band, and figures prominently in the news shared [...]
Nancy Cardwell just sent along another batch of photos from the July 14 Bluegrass Nights at The Ryman concert in Nashville where she interviewed Doyle Lawson about the legacy of Bill Monroe. The show featured performances by Sierra Hull & Highway 111, Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. All four [...]
This interview with Doyle Lawson at the July 14 edition of Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman was conducted by Nancy Cardwell. If Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass was looking down from heaven last Thursday night, July 14 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, he would have been tickled. Remember the steely glint in [...]
Rural Rhythm Records is doing their part in celebrating 2011 as the centennial of Bill Monroe's birth with a live album to be recorded starting this weekend at the Bill Monroe’s Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival in Indiana. Like their popular 2010 live project from the Grave's Mountain festival, Tribute To Bill Monroe - Live [...]
