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The NAMM (National Association of Music Merchandisers) Show is held less than a mile from Disneyland. One is a commercial shrine to prepubescent entertainment and sensory overload. The other is a theme park. Or, maybe I should say the NAMM Show is Disneyland without the lines. Except, there are lines if you want to get [...]
She calls herself “a label’s worst nightmare” – a bit too country for bluegrass and a bit too grassy for country. So Stacy Grubb is using Kickstarter to try to raise funds for her new CD. The West Virginia songbird has until Feb. 25 to raise $15,000. She promises the untitled project “won’t be as [...]
Tomorrow (12/3) marks the 15th Annual Bill Monroe Appreciation Night at Nashville's Station Inn. Each year during the holiday season, Music City's bluegrass royalty get together to honor the man who started it all. Saturday night's show will be hosted by Roland White and Jon Weisberger, with a powerful list of pickers and singers. Roland's group [...]
Paying tribute to Bill Monroe with a recording of his songs presents a different challenge than it would for any other musician I can think of. The prime mover behind the creation of bluegrass music, his output forms more of the standard repertoire of his genre than, say, Louis Armstrong's does for jazz or Robert [...]
Have you ever wondered what a studio recording session with Del McCoury was like? Thanks to Del and Music Producers Institute, you can know find out. MPI is premiering their new in-studio video from tracking sessions for the Del McCoury band’s new recording Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe. The 65 minute video features [...]
Del McCoury really wants you to check out his new album, Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe, which as the title suggests, is a tribute to Big Mon. The entire project is available for audio streaming from his web site. That's right folks - all 16 tracks can be heard online, from Monroe's trademark [...]
Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe is the title of the next album from Del McCoury. It is set for a digital release during IBMA week (9/27), with a vinyl LP coming on October 25. A CD is probable, but no dates have been discussed. Bill Monroe tribute projects have become something of a [...]
Mountain Heart's That Just Happened radio show on WSM in Nashville airs the first Tuesday of each month from 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Central). Jim Van Cleve and Josh Shilling are your jovial hosts for a program that shares a name with their most recent CD, a 7 song EP released in October 2010. Earlier this week, [...]
Here's a video of the performance last Tuesday (7/19) by the Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Jazz Hall Band on The Late Show with David Letterman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZflO132rEg
Tonight's (7/19) edition of the Late Show with David Letterman will include a joint performance by The Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The two groups are doing some limited touring to promote their new project, American Legacies, which blends Preservation Hall's New Orlean's style jazz with Del and the boys' unique [...]
