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Nancy Cardwell, Special Projects Director for the IBMA - and a talented free lance musician and journalist - spent last weekend with The Grascals in Dothan, AL. They were there to kick-off a new venture with great possibilities for the band, and for bluegrass music. Nancy prepared this detailed report for Bluegrass Today. The Grascals, [...]
We just heard from Kristin Scott Benson with some great Grascals news. Their next CD is set for a March 30 release on Rounder. "It's tentatively titled The Famous Lefty Flynn's, which is a song co-written by Jamie Johnson, featuring Terry Eldridge on lead vocal. This album includes mostly original material, including Satan and Grandma, [...]
A whole raft of bluegrass artists from the Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee area are banding together this Sunday (12/20) to raise money in support of two of their own. Dale Vanderpool and Gerald Evans have labored long and hard in the bluegrass trenches, and earned the respect and admiration of many of the current performers in [...]
The Charlie Daniels Christmas TV special, A Twin Pines Christmas, will debut this Thursday (12/3) on GAC. Charlie's guests include The Grascals, Dan Tyminski, Evelyn and Suzanne Cox, Aaron Tippin and Kathy Mattea. They will perform music from his latest CD, Joy To The World – A Bluegrass Christmas. The show will air at both [...]
Country crooner Dierks Bentley tells Vernell Hackett of The Boot that he plans to record a bluegrass album during 2010. Bentley has a long history of including bluegrass music on his chart-topping releases, and has collaborated several times with The Grascals and other Nashville grassers. He was a fixture on the bluegrass scene in Music [...]
Tonight's edition of Music City Roots on WSM has plenty to attract the attention of bluegrass fans. The show, which airs live each Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. (CST) from The Loveless Barn, just outside of Nashville, will feature sets from The Grascals and The Josh Williams Band. If you live within WSM's very wide broadcast [...]
Charlie Daniels has worn a good many hats over his 50 years in the music business. His first big hit came in 1973 with Uneasy Rider, a countryfied talking blues, years before the rap craze began. The hilarious song, following on the recent success of the Dennis Hopper film, Easy Rider, told the tale of [...]
Here's all the photos from the Awards Show in a single gallery. Dean Hoffmeyer did a fantastic job with these. More to come in the morning.
The Grascals announced today that they are partnering with a new sponsor: Mobil Delvac, a heavy duty diesel engine oil. They broke the news at a swanky media luncheon at The Palm restaurant in Nashville. As we ate our salads Marci Crigger, who works in marketing for the Exxon Mobil Corporation, explained how this new [...]
