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Rebel Records has recently announced news of the forthcoming release on March 25 of a various Artists collection entitled Best Loved Bluegrass: 20 All-Time Favorites (REB-8004). The 20 song anthology embraces some of the classic songs in bluegrass music from some of the great acts in the business (track listing below). So many of the [...]
There are a number of great opportunities to catch some live bluegrass on TV and radio over the next few days, many being streamed online. Today (1/15) at noon eastern, Balsam Range will be performing live on WDVX from Knoxville, TN. The show is streamed live online. At 1:00 p.m., Claire Lynch will join host [...]
We got a note from Mark Schatz about his soon-to-be new gig playing bass with Claire Lynch. Mark had been unable to get back with us when we posted recently about him coming aboard, and wanted to share a few thoughts about the move with everyone here. "After four exciting and formative years with Nickel [...]
Claire Lynch will be appearing on WNCW's Goin' Across The Mountain program on Saturday (1/12) at 2:00 p.m. (EST). She and her fine band will perform live in the station's Studio B, where they will also chat with host Dennis Jones. This show will be among the last before Missy Raines will take her leave, [...]
Claire Lynch has announced that Mark Schatz will come aboard as her new bass player in The Claire Lynch Band. Mark has been part of some of the most important ensembles in recent bluegrass/acoustic music history, and is also a recognized solo recording artist, instructor, producer and traditional clog dancer. Until they disbanded (for now) [...]
Missy Raines has announced that she will leave her position as bass player with The Claire Lynch Band, her musical home for the past 12 years, to focus full-time on her own group, Missy Raines & The New Hip. The band features Missy on bass with the assistance of Michael Wichter on resonator guitar, Megan [...]
Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, shares this review. Claire Lynch has recorded five CDs for the Rounder label previously. The latest, Crowd Favorites (Rounder 0600), consists of several songs in a 'best of' collection that in typical fashion these days includes a few new recordings - in this instance, four out of a total [...]
When we noted the release of Claire Lynch's new CD earlier this month, we mentioned that audio samples were not available yet online. Well, they are now. Rounder Records has samples from all 14 tracks of Crowd Favorites up on their web site. The CD is part of Rounder's Cream Of The Crop series, which [...]
Claire Lynch's latest Rounder release, Crowd Favorites, is out this week. As we mentioned in an earlier post, the CD includes both previously-released tracks from her prior Rounder projects, and four re-recorded songs from her Front Porch String Band days. There are no audio samples up yet on the Rounder site, but they have posted [...]
As we reported back in June, Claire Lynch's next CD is set for an October 9 release on Rounder. Crowd Favorites is a "compilation with benefits" project, mixing 10 previously released tracks from her several Rounder projects with four newly recorded reworkings of songs she had performed with the Front Porch String Band. A full [...]
