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WAMU's Bluegrass Country has posted a live-in-the-studio video which they shot when The Gibson Brothers were visiting back in March. It finds the guys performing Lone Gone from their current Rounder project, Brotherhood. They were on during the Lee Michael Demsey show, with video captured by Peter Swinburne, and audio by Aaron Levine. This one makes a nice [...]
It looks like we will soon have to address Leigh and Eric Gibson as Doctor, as they are both being awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York. They had already received bachelors degrees from SUNY Plattsburgh the old fashioned way, Eric in Secondary Education, and Leigh in both [...]
Rounder Records has released a new music video from The Gibson's Brothers' Brotherhood CD, which dropped earlier this week. It's a sort of rockabilly track, a blues number the boys learned from The York Brothers, a Kentucky brother duet who cut this originally in 1958. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="62231"]
In debates surrounding regional chauvinism in the roots of bluegrass music, New York's Gibson Brothers are often posited as modern exemplars of a sound that isn't dominated by cultural and musical conventions of the American south. It's true that their music is based on a brother duets tradition with deep southern roots, one that predates bluegrass [...]
Friday at the 39th Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival kicked off with the Tennessee Gentlemen. Donnie Catrone is one of the finest tenor singers in bluegrass music today! The Spinney Brothers graced the stage for the second day. In their evening set the crowd was delighted when the boys “Got their Dog Back.” Crowd favorite, The Gary [...]
It looks like Rounder Records is in the Christmas spirit as well. They are offering a free download of The Gibson Brothers' version of Bye Bye Love from their upcoming Brotherhood album in exchange for your email address. The song is a classic from The Everly Brothers, a Felice and Boudeleaux Bryant song that went [...]
Rounder Records has announced February 24, 2015 as the release date for Brotherhood, their first project with The Gibson Brothers. The title refers to the album's concept, which is a tribute to the many great brother duet teams that have paved the way for what Eric and Leigh Gibson are doing today. Most fans know [...]
Andy Flynn covered the first ever Bluegrass Jam for the Lake Placid News, and shared this article which they published. Like many cities that have hosted Olympic events, Lake Placid now is seeking new ways to make use of the Olympic facilities left behind for the good of the local community. He writes this from [...]
Frank Baker sent a ton of stage images from the August 2014 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Here is gallery #3 of 4.
Rounder Records has announced the signing of The Gibson Brothers to their label. A new album is currently in progress, which is expected to hit in January of 2015. The past few years have been big ones for the brothers, who like most "overnight successes," have been plugging away for more than two decades in [...]
