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Compass Records has just released four digital albums of music recorded during the 2012 season of Music City Roots, a Nashville-based radio and television program airing each Wednesday evening from The Loveless Barn. Each of the four is titled based on loose stylistic groupings of the music featured on the show: GrassRoots, SongRoots, TwangRoots and SoulRoots. Of primary [...]
Junior Sisk's crackerjack banjo picker, Jason Davis, is back with his second solo project at the ripe old age of 25. Like his 2008 effort, Steppin' Out, he has enlisted an array of young hotshots like himself, together with a number of bluegrass veterans, to cut this new album. The rhythm section includes Keith McKinnon [...]
With all the genre blurring present in modern bluegrass music, which finds artists mixing hints of country, pop, folk, and numerous other genres into the standard 1-4-5 drive, fans of the old sound have wondered if there’s any place for traditional bluegrass in today’s world. In recent years, several artists have made it a point [...]
Rebel has today released a single, The Story Of The Day That I Died, to radio. It's the title track of the upcoming Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice album, due March 12, 2013. This one is a clever number written by The Likely Culprits' Ashby Frank, with a unique twist on the been-done-wrong song. Here the narrator [...]
Steve Johnson, Principal with Mountain Music Entertainment has announced that he is closing the agency to take the job of Artist Relations manager with MerleFest. This explains yesterday's announcement that Junior Sisk had left Johnson for representation with Roe Entertainment. Steve says that he will be assisting the rest of his acts in obtaining new [...]
There are often major announcements following IBMA week each year. With all the major players in the business in attendance during World of Bluegrass, offers are made, many are accepted, and we all learn about changes on the professional side of the music. Yesterday we learned that the current edition of Grasstowne has made a [...]
Junior Sisk came up big last night at the IBMA Awards, taking home both the Song of the Year and Album of the Year trophies for 2012. Yesterday afternoon, just a few hours before the awards show, David Morris caught up with Junior to talk about his nominations. They also discuss the next album with [...]
Is there any better singer in bluegrass today than Junior Sisk? When he’s at his best, maybe not. But even when he’s not at his best, he’s very, very good. Tuesday night was one of those times when Junior wasn’t at his best, at least according to Junior himself, but you’d have a hard time [...]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is the undisputed home of traditional country music!" declared Brazilbilly’s Jesse Lee Jones, to wild cheers at Robert’s Western World in downtown Nashville on Tuesday night, September 25. As part of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass week, Martin Guitars conducted its annual showcase at the Lower Broadway honkytonk, which was packed to [...]
Doyle Lawson rose slowly to his feet, humbly taking off his trademark hat in response to the thunderously spontaneous applause that threatened to lift the Loveless Barn just outside Nashville off its foundation. It had just been announced that he was being inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, the pinnacle of a [...]
