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Grassville is a new band from the Atlanta area, featuring a bluegrass veteran and four strong young pickers. They have a new CD, Lonely Tonight, with 8 originals from within the group, plus covers of Jonathan Edwards' How Long Have I Been Waiting For You (cut previously by Seldom Scene and Doyle Lawson) and Down [...]
Over the past year, the Lonesome River Band has dedicated much of their time to recording an ambitious three-disc collection celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary. For the third and final album in this collection, Chronology Volume 3, the current LRB lineup has rerecorded ten of the most popular songs from throughout the band’s history, all [...]
When Lonesome River Band performed in Michigan this past weekend in support of their latest release, Chronology Volume Three, they spent part of Saturday afternoon with a young fiddle troupe called The Saline Fiddlers. LRB did a workshop with the troupe, which has been providing instruction and performance opportunities for high school students in Saline, [...]
Currently in their thirtieth performing year, the Lonesome River Band has maintained their own sound even while having endured many member changes. With the release of their second of three Chronology albums, which feature both new material and re-recorded standards from their repertoire, the current lineup of the Lonesome River Band has provided fans with [...]
Here is our last batch of photos from Pickin' In The Panhandle on Sunday. It was a simply gorgeous day in the mountains, and we all enjoyed some fabulous music and camaraderie. We still have a number of video interviews we shot with artists performing on the show, and will get them up over the [...]
Bluegrass Today will have a team at this weekend's Pickin' In The Panhandle festival in West Virginia. We will have reports from the festival, with photos and video updates, starting Friday afternoon. The fest offers two stages of music (three on Saturday), with an all-star lineup throughout. Both Friday and Saturday evenings they will also have [...]
Randy Jones, trusty mandolinist and tenor vocalist with Lonesome River Band, will guest Saturday night on Blue Ridge Backroads, hosted by Judith Burnette on WBRF, Blue Ridge Country 98.1. They will play through songs on his new solo project, When Old Lonesome Comes Around, and talk a bit about the songs. Judith says that she [...]
Laura Tate Ridge has sent along a nice set of photos from last weekend's Wayside Bluegrass Festival in Stuart, VA.
2012 is a big year for two of bluegrass music's top acts. It marks 30 years together for Lonesome River Band, and 20 for Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out. Since IBMA week in Nashville brings such a large percentage of the bluegrass industry and community together in one spot, Moonstruck Management, who represents both [...]
The photos accompanying this review of the first day at Red, White & Bluegrass were taken by Laura Tate Ridge. To say thousands braved day one of Red White & Bluegrass in Morganton, North Carolina is an understatement. While temperatures reached 105 degrees, fans searched for every square inch of shade. One festival-goer joked “it was [...]
