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Friday dawned sunny and warm for an ideal bluegrass festival day at the 2016 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Charlotte, MI. A group of young siblings calling themselves Sugar Creek Bluegrass opened the show. They range in age from seven to twenty from the Columbus, OH area. The Spinney Brothers returned for day two and provided [...]
Here's another gallery of Frank Baker's photographs from last weekend's cool and rainy Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
The good news for bluegrass fans last year: A lot of terrific music was released. So much, in fact, that it made picking my annual best-of list harder than usual. I eliminated bands that recorded songs I wrote because of an obvious conflict, narrowed my list to 16 or 17, but still had trouble getting [...]
Here again is our annual recounting of the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart, showing the Top 30 songs played during 2015 based on total spins from bluegrass radio. It's a great mix of new songs from our music's top writers, along with a couple of classic covers, recorded by the brightest stars in today's bluegrass firmament. Following is [...]
Russell Moore has announced that he has officially hired Jerry Cole as bassist with IIIrd Tyme Out. Jerry has been touring with the band for several months now since the group's previous bass player, Blake Johnson, has been on medical leave suffering with serious kidney problems. Initially, it had been hoped that Blake would be able to return [...]
This review of IIIrd Tyme Out's CD release concert is a contribution from Jessica Boggs. When Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out walked on to the stage in the Birthplace of Country Music Museum’s Performance Theater in Bristol, Virginia, last Friday night, the crowd was ready for them. The show, which debuted the band’s new [...]
Is there such a thing as a perfect bluegrass album? I guess that all depends on where you stand on the eternal "what is bluegrass, anyway" debate, and which vocal or instrumental styles are appropriate, and all that nonsense. But I still hold that my own standard of perfection works without regard to those arguments. It's [...]
Here is yet another gallery of Frank Baker's terrific images from the August Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. And we're not done yet!
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out have announced a September 4 release for their latest CD, It's About Tyme. This will be their first album of new material since Prime Tyme in 2011. Their most recent was Timeless Hits From The Past Bluegrassed, an album of covers which they did for Cracker Barrel in 2013. It will [...]
Thankfully, Frank Baker was in attendance this year for the 2015 Bluegrass on the Grass Festival in Carlisle, PA. This was the 20th Anniversary of this free festival held on the campus of Dickinson College. He sent along these images from the July 11 event.
