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We caught up with Joe Mullins and Junior Sisk in Raleigh last month, where they talked about their new Hall 0f Fame duets project on Rebel Records. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="54993"]
Well, if you’ve followed Bluegrass Today at all in the last week, you know there really is something more newsworthy and controversial than a government shutdown. It turns out to be the fact that a bluegrass artist decided to stop performing a song. As much as Junior Sisk may be regretting every aspect of the [...]
Junior Sisk has asked us to share this statement about his decision to stop including one of the songs from his current album, Old Bicycle Chain, in his live show. The song is a tongue-in-cheek farce written by Billy Smith that includes a theme that has enraged some members of the music world, to wit, [...]
As the bluegrass genre grows to include more and more offshoots in the mind of the average consumer, traditionalists can be found grousing about the dilution of the art form, or the importance of maintaing definitions and categories. But while they grumble, traditional bluegrass is alive, well and growing along with the more modern types [...]
Here's still another gallery of Frank Baker's images from the August 2013 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
Rebel Records has released a new single to radio from The Story Of The Day I Died, the current CD by Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice. The song is If The Bottle Was A Bible, written by Ronnie Bowman, Clint Daniels and Billy Ryan. It tells the story of a man brought low by alcohol, and [...]
If you've caught a Junior Sisk show this past few years, or heard his last two records, you know what a blistering banjo picker he has in Jason Davis. This month, at the age of 23, Davis is seeing his second solo project released on Mountain Fever. The 13 tracks on Second Time Around show Jason [...]
The line-up for each of the Springer Mountain Farms Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman for 2013 has been announced. The annual summer fair of bluegrass music at Nashville's famous Ryman Auditorium begins this evening, June 20, and continues weekly on Thursdays through to July 25. First on the stage where it is claimed that bluegrass music [...]
Chris Davis, who has been playing mandolin with Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice, has made his exit. Anyone close to a bluegrass musician knows the difficulties that job can bring, with the long drives and time away from family, and Chris decided that staying closer to home was where he wanted to be. He is planning [...]
Thanks to Laura Tate Ridge for this fine gallery of photos from the Family Style Bluegrass Festival, held late last month at Willow Oak Park in Roxboro, NC.
