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Another major benefit concert is scheduled for March 20 in Louisville, KY. The show is intended to mark 2009 as the 40th anniversary of newgrass music, and the crucial role that Louisville played in its birth and development. In fact there is much more than just a concert in store for the Ruby celebrations. A [...]
We heard recently from Steve Fishell, director of the Music Producers Institute, with word about their next studio clinic. The session will feature Sam Bush, who will spend three days with the class to record and mix new songs - along with his band and long-time engineer, David Sinko. The seminar, held at Ocean Way [...]
Here's a fun interview with Sam Bush, conducted by members of blues-rockers The Band Of Heathens on their bus during the recent Ski Jam 2009 in Steamboat Springs, CO. Sam talks about the "old days," and tells how Strength In Numbers came to be and how they had to choose that name after their first [...]
Y'all Wire, a large country music video web site, has announced their Top 8 Bluegrass Videos for 2008 to date. The video ratings are based on the site's Multivariate Audience Meter, which measures a video's popularity of "audience engagement." In addition to online views, this measure includes how often a video is selected as a [...]
Chris Thile isn't the only bluegrass picker with a pure love for baseball. Sam Bush is another, and his fondness for America's pastime was recently chronicled on the Baseballisms site. Sam's video remembrances of growing up playing baseball are especially poignant, as the first was posted just after Fathers Day, and in it Sam fondly [...]
The state of Kentucky honored native son Sam Bush this week, and Sam returned the favor by picking a few for the KY State Senate in Frankfort on Monday. The Senate approved a resolution which celebrated Bush's contributions to newgrass music, specifically for his crucial membership in both Bluegrass Alliance and New Grass Revival. The [...]
Sam Bush will a featured guest on this weekend's edition of A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast on public radio stations all over the US. The show will broadcast live from St. Paul, MN on February 9 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (EST) over a great many stations in the US, and on XM Satellite Radio track 133. [...]
A movie and a mandolin...? Sam Bush will be the guest on Hazel Smith's Southern Fried Flicks on CMT this weekend. He'll join Hazel on her kitchen set for some cooking tips as she prepares some of her tasty dishes - before, and during the breaks - while they air the 1991 hit movie, Fried [...]
Not long ago we brought you a story about Stephen Mougin playing in Slovakia. The tour is done, Stephen is back in the states and on the road with Sam Bush again, but he sent us some reflections on the state of the bluegrass scene in Eastern Europe. Stephen tells us the concerts, in which [...]
This morning (11/1), BluegrassCountry.org has interviews on tap with a couple of bluegrass and acoustic music legends. Sam Bush drops by at 9:00 a.m. to talk with Katy Daley about his current tour with Edgar Meyer and Jerry Douglas, which stops tonight in DC. Then at 11:00, Lee Michael Demsey will preview his lengthy interview [...]
