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Rounder is preparing to release a compilation project of John Hartford's music on September 22. Entitled, Good'le Days: Essential Recordings, the new CD is part of Rounder's budget-minded Perfect 10 Series, each of which includes ten tracks from an important Rounder artist. They show the selling price online as $7.99. How would you like to [...]
For anyone who will be in Nashville for the Americana Music Festival and Conference (September 16-19), here's a good reason to slip into town a few days early. The Nashville Symphony will be doing a special show on Saturday, September 12, which they are billing as their inaugural Classical Americana concert at the Schermerhorn Symphony [...]
Sam Bush answers the question, "Where did you find all those wonderful musicians in your band?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjXODiUtS7E
We just got our advance copy of the new Sam Bush CD, Circles Around Me. Sam had told us that it was one that his bluegrass and newgrass fans would really appreciate, and he wasn't kidding. Other than the subtle percussion from Sam's regular drummer, Chris Brown, this is pretty much a bluegrass record - [...]
Wichita Rutherford has invited Sam Bush to co-host his Sirius radio show, The Grand Old Time Machine, this week. The last time this duo worked together was the year Bush hosted the IBMA Award Show with Wichita co-hosting via video. Wichita tells me they are going to have a good time with this. Sam will [...]
Sam Bush has a couple of new YouTube videos. The first finds the camera behind the scenes at the photo shoot for Sam's upcoming Sugar Hill CD, Circles Around Me, due on October 20. In an interview we did with Sam back in April, he let on that this new project would mark a return [...]
Multi-instrumental legend Sam Bush is to receive the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement for Instrumentalist award at a ceremony later in the year. Bush will be presented with the award at the 8th Annual Americana Honors and Awards ceremony, which is scheduled to take place on September 17 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Primarily [...]
Almost Live, the latest CD from flatpicker supreme Bryan Sutton, is out today (7/14) on Sugar Hill Records. It is a set of ten songs and tunes featuring Bryan in the studio with many of the artists with whom he has performed in recent years. Punch Brothers make an appearance (sans regular guitarist Chris Eldridge) [...]
What is it with bluegrass mandolin legends taking fan questions and answering them online? Doyle Lawson and Sam Bush are both posting YouTube videos with answers to submitted questions. Here's Sam's latest, where he answers a query about how he approaches a jam situation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pekv0VOgjlEYou can see all the Sam Bush videos on his YouTube [...]
Sam Bush has two new videos on YouTube, sharing what has been consuming much of his time this year so far. First up is a sneak peek at the recording of his upcoming Sugar Hill CD, which he has told us will be much more of an acoustic project than his last few albums. He [...]
