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Chris Jones, noted singer, songwriter, bandleader, radio personality and bluegrass humorist, has something special planned this week for his Sirius XM program, Truegrass. In advance of their mutual birthdays on August 27, Chris is highlighting the music of both Carter Stanley and J.D. Crowe during the show. Truegrass is a classic bluegrass-themed offering, which airs on channel [...]
Here's the first of several photo galleries from this past weekend's Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, taken by Frank Baker.
When Ben Eldridge and his bandmates in the Seldom Scene followed J.D. Crowe and The New South to the stage at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival on Saturday, fans got to hear more than 100 years of five-string banjo experience back to back. J.D., who turns 75 later this month, is retiring at the end of [...]
With about a half dozen shows left before he retires, one of the best banjo players to ever slide on the finger picks is too busy looking forward to look back on his bluegrass career. “I’m going to play golf. I’m going to fish,” J.D. Crowe said in an interview with Bluegrass Today between sets [...]
Many popular reality shows currently highlight Americans with somewhat unusual occupations, largely living in rural Southern communities. One of these programs is Animal Planet’s Call of the Wildman, which depicts the adventures of “Turtleman” Ernie Brown, Jr. Brown, who lives in central Kentucky, is featured weekly as he catches a wide variety of wild creatures, [...]
This past weekend, the small town of Hyden, Kentucky was filled with bluegrass fans from around the country for the 19th Annual Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival. The festival, which is coordinated by Dean Osborne, the director of the Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music, featured both local and national acts over three days. With [...]
Richard Bennett left a powerful mark on bluegrass music in the 1990s as lead vocalist and guitarist with J.D. Crowe & The New South. His strong rhythm and lead guitar, distinctive vocal style and crisp songwriting were a hallmark of Crowe's Flashback record. After leaving Crowe's group, Richard appeared on three albums with Jimmy Gaudreau [...]
This report, and photos, from Bean Blossom 2012 are a contribution from MaryE Yeomans, who we hope will be a regular correspondent and photographer for Bluegrass Today. It’s a hot one here today, the eighth and final day of the Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival just a few miles up the road from Nashville, [...]
We just heard from Steve Martin, who shared this announcement about his annual banjo prize: Last March, the board of The Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass lost a founding member, the great Earl Scruggs. After brief deliberation, we made a unanimous decision and asked J. D. Crowe to join our board. [...]
Laura Tate Ridge has sent along a large gallery of photos she took at last weekend's Lil John Mountain Music Festival in Snow Camp, NC.
