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Dark Shadow Recording in Nashville has a new single release today, but this time it's for label and studio head, Stephen Mougin. Stephen, or Mojo as he is known in the biz, is not just a top shelf engineer and record company exec, he is first and foremost a picker and singer. He plies that [...]
Dark Shadow Recording has today released a first single for label owner and engineer, Stephen Mougin, from his upcoming solo album, Ordinary Soul. I'm Gonna Ride is a testament to the importance of overcoming fear and pursuing a dream. It's one that he wrote with Rick Lang, and recorded with the Sam Bush Band, with [...]
Stephen Mougin has announced the imminent release of his second guitar video package for TrueFire. Entitled 30 Bluegrass Runs You Must Know, the 69 minute program covers a number of G run variations, common lead-ins to chord changes, and a group of simple - and more complex - runs to use as endings or as building [...]
Noted Nashville guitarist and educator Stephen Mougin, known to friends as Mojo, has struck a deal with online instructional company TrueFire to produce an overview course called Bluegrass Rhythm Evolution. Their system is based on a free application that allows online streaming of your purchased content, though these courses can also be purchased on DVDs [...]
Stephen Mougin with his 2016 Momentum Award for Mentor of the Year Stephen Mougin, guitarist with the Sam Bush Band and engineer, owner, and operator at Dark Shadow Recording, has announced that he has stepped down from his position as Director of Bluegrass at Bethel University. There he coached the school bluegrass band, but said [...]
Stephen “Mojo” Mougin is a busy man. He has his hands in virtually every aspect of bluegrass music: playing, producing, recording and band coaching. And what hands they are. They certainly know their way around a guitar and, like a surgeon’s, they open up your heart and supply it with the stuff of life: when [...]
For those of you planning to attend this year's World of Bluegrass convention later this month, here are a couple of unrelated items of note we wanted to bring to your attention. First off, Stephen Mougin is still looking for bands willing to be critiqued in his bluegrass band master class during Wide Open Bluegrass in [...]
Starting this Fall semester, the Renaissance Bluegrass Band at Bethel University will be directed by Stephen Mougin. Known for his work as a private instructor, band coach and producer, Mougin (or Mojo as he is called) also plays guitar with the Sam Bush Band, and runs his own studio and record company, Dark Shadow Recording. Bethel, [...]
The IBMA has announced a new seminar for World of Bluegrass Week in Raleigh this year. It's a band coaching session held in a master class format with Stephen Mougin of the Sam Bush Band. In addition to his work as guitarist with Bush, Mojo is an in-demand sessions player and producer, and the owner/operator of [...]
Once again, Stephen Mougin at Dark Shadow Recording has prevailed on one of his artists to retail their recording experience for us in blog form. This time, it’s Becky Buller who is working on her first solo project with the label. Here is the seventh installment of her studio diary. A talented songwriter, Becky also tours and records [...]
