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We've posted a couple of times recently about the reworked acoustic version of Old Enough from alt-rock stalwarts The Raconteurs, featuring a guest appearance by Ricky Skaggs. The video, which also features Ashley Monroe on vocals, has become a staple on CMT. The new version is not necessarily a bluegrass arrangement, but the song certainly [...]
Bluegrass music has had no shortage of funny men down through the years. From Stringbean to Wichita Rutherford, bluegrass fans have been able to enjoy a good laugh along with the music. Jack Black is a funny man for sure. He's been through the School of Rock. Now he's taken up an interest in bluegrass [...]
The Jan/Feb issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles features a cover story interview with Ricky Skaggs where he discusses the first time he and Keith Whitley met The Stanley Brothers, the day he witnessed Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt perform together again at Bean Blossom in the early seventies following a 20-plus year feud, and what [...]
Ricky Skaggs has played and endorsed Dana Bourgeois' guitars for more than ten years, as have members of his band, Kentucky Thunder. Skaggs' enthusiastic and highly visible support of Bourgeois played a large role in bringing wider attention to the brand when it was launched in 1995, and during the subsequent reformation of the company [...]
The nominees for the 51st Grammy Awards have been announced, and the bluegrass category is filled with familiar names. Here are the nominees for Best Bluegrass Album for 2009. Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe - Cherryholmes Del McCoury Band - Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Del McCoury Band The Ultimate [...]
The video Brace told us about two weeks ago of rockers The Raconteurs performing an impromptu acoustic version of their song Old Enough with Ricky Skaggs on mandolin has been released by Warner Brothers. It runs to just under seven minutes and shows the band with Skaggs and guest vocalist Ashley Monroe recording live to [...]
Rock group The Raconteurs are retelling a recent single, Old Enough. The song is from their CD Consolers of the Lonely, released in March of 2008. Old Enough was released as a single barely a week ago. The release included a live version of the song recorded at Bonnaroo, as well as an acoustic version [...]
Video of Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder performing Uncle Pen on the CBS Saturday Early Show has been posted at CBS.com. Ricky talks briefly about his new Cracker Barrel exclusive CD, The High Notes, which includes reworked versions of his country hits in a bluegrass style, and then he and the boys tear it up. [...]
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will appear tomorrow (10/25) on the CBS Saturday Early Show. The show airs live from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. (eastern), but is carried at different times by CBS affiliates across the US. Check the show schedule online to double check when it will be broadcast in your area.
Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], has arrived in Nashville from the UK to attend the IBMA convention next week. This is his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his impressions and considerations would be of interest both to others who are likewise preparing to attend, and our many [...]
