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Compass Records has created a nice introduction to the upcoming Special Consensus album, Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver, due later this month. It's a video shot in their Nashville studio that mixes music performance clips with band interviews about the record, and getting to work with some of the special guests. [jwplayer player="1" [...]
...back Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen This band just keeps getting better. The unit’s debut release for Compass Records, On The Edge, is still getting plenty of airplay, and a pair of IBMA awards (banjo player of the year for Mike Munford and a Momentum Award for guitarist Chris Luquette) have helped raise its profile [...]
Back in March of 2013, Nathan Livers, mandolinist with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, made a pledge to get his long locks cut as soon as the band's Facebook page reached 5,000 likes. He further promised to donate his hair to Locks of Love, and to let his blind band leader make the first cut! And [...]
Avant-garde mandolinist Andy Statman has announced a new CD, Superstring Theory, set for an October 22 release on Shefa Records. It was recorded with Staman's Trio (Jim Whitney on bass and Larry Eagle on drums), along with fiddler Michael Cleveland and guitarist/vocalist Tim O'Brien. All but two tracks are Andy's originals, composed with this set of [...]
Michael Cleveland, fiery fiddler and Flamekeeper's fearless leader, stopped by for a chat with David Morris earlier this week at IBMA. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="54756"]
Frank Baker captured these images from this past weekend's Bluegrass On The Grass festival on the campus of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Bill Warren is at RudyFest this weekend in Grayson, KY, and sent along a few photos from the first two days' stage shows.
Compass Records has today announced that bluegrass fiddle phenom Michael Cleveland has signed with the label. He and his band, Flamekeeper, will start work later this year on a new project, expected for a 2014 release. Michael sees this as a good move in his career. “I'm so excited to be working with everyone at [...]
In 1998, a team of bluegrass all-stars who reawakened the world to the sounds of traditional bluegrass were the big winners at the IBMA Awards Show. Bringing home Recorded Event of the Year and Song of the Year honors that year, Longview ruled the world of traditional bluegrass in the late-nineties/early-two thousands. Fifteen years later, [...]
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper are featured live on SiriusXM Bluegrass Junction this week. You can join fiddler Cleveland, Glenn Gibson (banjo and resophonic guitar), Nathan Livers (mandolin), Tyler Griffith (bass) and Joshua Richards (guitar) as they visit Kyle Cantrell and play what is sure to be some top flight bluegrass. The program will be on [...]
