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Tim O'Brien has created a live, front porch version of the final track on his current release, Where The River Meets The Road. It's the old time classic, Little Annie, sung along with Jan Fabricius. Nothing fancy, just a fine performance of this great old song. [jwplayer player="7" mediaid="94614"] Tim is out touring now in [...]
Tim O'Brien has released a sampler video for his latest album, Where The River Meets the Road, which he has dedicated to his home state of West Virginia. Tim lives now in the Nashville area, but his formative family and musical experiences point back to the Mountaineer State where he was raised. Even when he [...]
The 44th annual RockyGrass festival was held last weekend in Lyons, CO. Surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains, fans enjoyed the best in bluegrass for three straight days. These are my reflections and opinions as a first time RockyGrass attendee. RockyGrass!! One of the items on my “Bluegrass Bucket List” was finally able to be [...]
The 2016 Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) festival is taking place this week at the Hoover Y Park in Columbus, OH. Darrel and Phyllis Adkins’ annual event is held in memory of their daughter, Mandy Adkins, who passed away from an inoperable brain tumor in 2000. All of the proceeds generated from the MACC benefit St Jude [...]
Yesterday, May 26, it has been 82 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six short years, "The Father of Country Music" left behind a musical legacy which is still relevant in [...]
Tara Linhardt has teamed up with Tim O'Brien, Abigail Washburn, and the Mountain Music Project in an effort to raise badly needed funds for the people in the mountains of Nepal who have been devastated by recent earthquakes in the Himalayan communities just north of India. The level of destruction there defies description, with entire towns [...]
Tim O’Brien, apparently, never sits still. But Bluegrass Today was fortunate to catch up with him twice in recent days, once over the weekend before his solo set at the DC Bluegrass Union festival in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and on the phone a few days later. You can hear him singing and playing on [...]
Frank Solivan landed a high-profile fill-in gig while his band, Dirty Kitchen, is on its winter break. He’s playing 10 gigs with the Earls of Leicester, the all-star band channeling Flatt and Scruggs. Solivan, fresh off a Grammy nomination, will be filling in for Tim O’Brien in the band that won the coveted award. O’Brien, [...]
Tim O'Brien has a new single, and a new distribution system for releasing his music. With his 2015 dedicated to Hot Rize, the bluegrass vehicle which first brought Tim and his music to prominence 30 years ago, he wanted a way to keep making new music on his own, and getting it out to his [...]
If you stumbled here through a Google search for information about British bluebloods, you landed in the wrong place. But if you’re looking for bluegrass royalty, here it is. Musically, the Earls of Leicester, some of the best pickers of this or any other generation, are direct descendants of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and their [...]
