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IIIrd Tyme Out bassist Blake Johnson has been in the hospital again, with doctors trying to relive his chronic abdominal pain, and find out why he has been unable to eat. Blake has been suffering from pancreatitis and kidney problems, making his participation with the band an iffy proposition this past few months. We caught up [...]
Blake Johnson, the talented bass player and vocalist for Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, has been having a rough time of late. Health challenges are always disruptive and unpleasant, but we don't often expect to see them visited on healthy young people. We have written several times about Blake having to miss IIIrd Tyme Out [...]
When Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out taped a show for Bluegrass Underground earlier this year, a couple of audience videos popped up, including this clip of Brown County Red, a radio single that just debuted at #1 on our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart. It's an extended clip, which captures several minutes of Russell's clever stage [...]
IIIrd Tyme Out has released a debut single from their upcoming 2015 album, their first of new songs since 2011. We had a nice chat with lead singer and guitarist Russell Moore last week, and he shared his thoughts about the song, and recording with his new lineup. The band has also launched their own label, [...]
IIIrd Tyme Out bass player and vocalist Blake Johnson is back in the hospital, but this time from an abundance of caution. Fans may recall that he spent several weeks there last year, suffering from a somewhat mysterious malady that had sapped his strength and left him listless. That episode had begun with abdominal pain, [...]
It was a sunny, bright, and chilly day to open 11th Palatka Bluegrass Festival on February 19th at the Rodeheaver Boys Ranch in Palatka, Florida. The bands played to a big and enthusiastic crowd. Alan Sibley and the Magnolia Ramblers opened the show with rock solid bluegrass Gospel music. Alan is an alumnus of Enoch [...]
During last year's IBMA World of Bluegrass, WAMU's Bluegrass Country and Raleigh's WUNC hosted a special, invitation-only concert at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, located a few blocks from the Raleigh Convention Center where most of the IBMA events were occurring. You had to be somebody, or know somebody, to get tickets to this [...]
IIIrd Tyme Out bass man Blake Johnson has finally been released from the hospital, and is at home regaining his strength after being ill since the end of September. He had been diagnosed with a rare blood infection that had left him weak and listless, but says he is feeling a lot better now. Blake will [...]
Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers kicked off the November edition of the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival. New member, fiddler Jason Barie, made his debut. Ralph Stanley II then brought the signature “Stanley” sound to the stage. Russell Moore wowed the crowd with the great music of IIIrd Tyme Out. Jason “Sweet Tater” Tomlin [...]
Blake Johnson, bassist and vocalist with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, has been hospitalized this past two weeks, suffering from a rare blood infection. But he says that he is feeling much better and is looking forward to being discharged later this week, and returning to the band. The blood disease, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura [...]
