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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.
If you don't recognize the name Ray Edwards, you probably will his music. His song Hard Rock Mountain Prison ('Til I Die) was a hit for IIIrd Tyme Out, as was Over In The Promised Land for Lou Reid & Carolina. Ray also composed Lou's current single, Carolina Moonshine Man. Edwards is also an award-winning banjo picker, and [...]
Our friend Fred Robbins was on hand for Tex Logan's 85th Birthday Bash in East Hanover, NJ recently, and filmed the better part of the day's activities. He has posted the first of what he says will be several videos, this one just over an hour in length. Logan has been a notorious figure in bluegrass [...]
Another bluegrass baby! Charlie Lawson, who plays guitar and sings lead with Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, is celebrating the birth of his first child, along with his wife, Melissa. Joyln Annette Lawson was born earlier today (4/4) at 1:55 a.m. at the Terre Haute Regional Hospital, weighing an even 8 pounds, and stretching out to [...]
The tributes to Earl Scruggs are coming in faster than we can get them posted! No surprise, given the tremendous impact he had on musicians worldwide, and personally on the many friends he made in the bluegrass and country music industry. A public funeral will be held this Sunday (4/1) at 2:00 p.m. (CDT) at [...]
Tom Mindte of Patuxent Music sent along these photos of Danny Paisley in the studio with the Southern Grass, taken by Michael G. Stewart. They are tracking this week for a new album to be released on Pauxent later this year.
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass are in the studio tracking a new project for Patuxent Music. No details yet about songs to be included, nor a release date, but we do know that Danny is recording with Doug Meek on fiddle, Mark Delaney on banjo, Eric Troutman on bass, and the inimitable Michael Cleveland [...]
Forget the groundhog and his dismal forecast of six more weeks of winter. I saw a sure sign Sunday night that spring – and bluegrass festival season – is just around the corner. The occasion was the All-Star Jam at the Birchmere Music Hall just outside the nation’s capital, where a couple of hours of [...]
This past few years have seen a bluegrass variety show travel across the eastern US, billed as the Bluegrass All-Star Jam. Over the years it has hit dozens of cities, with a live concert featuring a bevy of top bluegrass artists performing together in a number of different groupings. Part of the appeal has been [...]
Fiddlers in the Louisville, KY area - or those willing to make the trek - will have the opportunity to study privately with Michael Cleveland next year. Jeff Guernsey's Conservatory of Music in Jeffersonville, IN (just across the river from Louisville), will host Michael as fiddle teacher on Tuesdays during 2012. Michael's sessions are described [...]
