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Daniel Mullins will be reporting from the 2015 Bean Blossom Festival all week, as Internet service in the campground allows. Check back each day for his reports and photos. The fourth day of the 49th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival could have been called the week’s “fun day.” Tuesday’s shows got kicked off with The Punches [...]
Today marks the release of Dale Ann Bradley's new Pinecastle album, Pocket Full Of Keys, and the label has offered this opportunity to stream the tracks here at Bluegrass Today. Bradley has settled comfortably into the role of bluegrass music's classiest female vocalist, with record after record of tasty new songs and clever covers, all [...]
Continuing with her trend of re-cutting rock and pop hits in her smooth bluegrass style, Dale Ann Bradley has released a first single from her upcoming Pinecastle release. Til I Hear It From You joins her other classic covers like Tom Petty's Won't Back Down, Fleetwood Mac's Over My Head, Seals & Croft's Summer Breeze, [...]
We have had an interesting weekend of discovery regarding bluegrass in the great state of Georgia. Friday night we went to a local gem called the Woodbine Opry. They have bluegrass shows on Friday and country music shows on Saturday in the Woodbine community center. They support the shows with donations, 50/50 drawings, and dessert giveaways. [...]
Pinecastle Records has announced the return of Dale Ann Bradley to the label. She's working now on new material for her next project, which she will produce for Pinecastle. "I am thrilled and excited to be a Pinecastle artist. I feel like it's a homecoming. My first recordings were with Pinecastle. They were a forthright [...]
Sevier County is a unique spot in East Tennessee. The cities of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg - each well under 10,000 in population - exist almost solely as tourist destinations. Think of a beach town without the beach - with the Smoky Mountains in its place. It all started in the 1930s with the opening [...]
Compass Records has created a nice introduction to the upcoming Special Consensus album, Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver, due later this month. It's a video shot in their Nashville studio that mixes music performance clips with band interviews about the record, and getting to work with some of the special guests. [jwplayer player="1" [...]
Once again, Stephen Mougin at Dark Shadow Recording has prevailed on one of his artists to retail their recording experience for us in blog form. This time, it’s Becky Buller who is working on her first solo project with the label. Here is the third installment of her studio diary. A talented songwriter, Becky also tours and records [...]
I wasn’t prepared for what happened the first time I hit play on Irene Kelley’s new CD, Pennsylvania Coal. I’ve known and admired her work as a songwriter and I knew from reading the liner notes that the picking would be terrific. That’s a given when the credits include Adam Steffey on mandolin, Stuart Duncan [...]
Southern Gospel artist Tammy Jones Robinette is preparing to release her first bluegrass project, Let It Shine, recorded at Skaggs Place and Hilltop Studio in Nashville. Tammy has been singing Gospel music since childhood, touring with her mother and father as The Jones Family. As she grew older, songwriting became a chief interest, and a number of [...]
