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When Balsam Range came onto the scene in 2007, we all knew this Haywood County band would quickly become a major name in our beloved bluegrass world. It wasn’t because they were instrumental and vocal heavyweights—that’s common in our world; it was because they had that intangible thing, that mojo of musical symbiosis. Each person [...]
In recognition of veterans world-wide, we recall one of the most evocative war songs in the bluegrass music cannon, Curly Seckler’s Purple Heart. As told by Penny Parsons …. Curly Seckler wrote Purple Heart in 1952 when he was based in Lexington, Kentucky, and working at WVLK in Versailles with Jim and Jesse McReynolds and [...]
The Flashback boys spent the early part of the month in the studio finishing up their debut album, Foxhounds And Fiddles, for Pinecastle Records. They expect to have everything wrapped up shortly, with the completed project headed to bluegrass radio early in the new year. Flashback is a reunion of four bluegrass veterans who had worked [...]
The Darrell Webb Band was in a serious auto accident earlier today while traveling to St. Augustine, FL for a show. Fortunately everyone is OK, though dobro player Tyler Collins, who was asleep in the back of the van, was pitched about and suffered several injuries. He has a facial fracture under his left eye, and [...]
November 11 is the release date for the latest project from Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, All The Rage, available in both CD and DVD formats. Both contain 14 songs recorded live during late May of 2015 at the Bethel Performing Arts Center, located near Bethel University campus in northwestern Tennessee. When we spoke with Rhonda earlier [...]
I wasn’t sure what to expect upon encountering a bluegrass album that featured an “intro” and “outro” on the track listing. Would there be spoken word tracks? Some kind of wild and crazy instrumentation? Was this a bluegrass opera and I just hadn’t realized it? Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Intro and [...]
Wilson Pickins Promotions has announced the signing of Jim and Lynna Woolsey to the agency for representation and publicity services. The Indiana husband-and-wife duo are bluegrass singers and songwriters with a knack for a great song and a flair for a bluesy groove. Both are strong vocalists with Jim especially possessed of a distinctive voice that [...]
Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley will be taking their duo powerhouse show to Australia next week for a series of shows in the southeastern regions of the continent. This will be their first visit to perform together in Australia. Their tour will start and end in Melbourne with stops at the big Mountaingrass Festival in [...]
Dale Franklin Sledd passed away on Sunday, August 21, 2016, at the Warsaw Health and Rehabilitation Center, Warsaw, Missouri. He was 79 years old. Sledd was born on April 23, 1937, in Benton County, Missouri, and according to the 1940 census he lived in Union City, Missouri. He grew up in Benton County and graduated [...]
A Distant Horizon, the new album from southwest Virginia’s Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome, proves at least one thing: the band takes its name to heart. Many of the songs here contemplate loss – of chances, of a home, and of life, to name a few. Shot through with dark, angry banjo and guided by [...]
