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Rural Rhythm Records has just released the first single from their upcoming Tim Hensley project, Long Monday. Bluegrass radio hosts and stations should be receiving their copy today (11/15), Tim's rendition of the Rodney Crowell song, Ridin' Out The Storm. Tim has spent time with Ricky Skaggs, as well as country artists Patty Loveless and [...]
We caught up recently with Tim Stafford of Blue Highway, and got a few more details about their upcoming Rounder CD. Tim says that the project is expected to be titled Through The Window of a Train, and he speaks with pride of the material - all written by band members. He rates the songs [...]
We received two fine CDs recently, from artists whose music may not be familiar to a wide listening audience. Both projects have their roots in the rich, fertile "bluegrass crescent" that encircles eastern Kentucky and Tennessee along with western Virginia and North Carolina. Tim Carter, along with his brother Danny, has been performing as The [...]
We see two great bluegrass offerings available via streaming online audio for Friday, May 4. First up at noon (EDT) is a live performance by James Reams & The Barnstormers on WDVX's Blue Plate Special. The show airs in Knoxville, TN at 89.9 FM, and listeners worldwide can catch the show via live streaming from [...]
Great news for Blue Highway fans - their next CD project should be out later this year. They have resigned with Rounder Records and this will be their 4th Rounder CD, and 8th album release as a band. Blue Highway has seen their popularity in bluegrass grow steadily over more than ten years in the [...]
This new DVD from Flatpicking Guitar features Blue Highway guitarist Tim Stafford is a comprehensive overview of critical techniques for acoustic, steel string guitar. The DVD release is a re-edited and remastered version of the original VHS release, which was largely overlooked in that now nearly obsolete format. Acoustic Guitar Fundamentals is a video presentation [...]
Jorma Kaukonen may never be a fixture on the bluegrass circuit, but the eclectic guitarist has been involved in a variety of roots music endeavors since his early days with The Jefferson Airplane in San Francisco's heady 1960s music scene. His first post-Airplane outing, Hot Tuna, with fellow Airplane alum Jack Casady, has endured since [...]
A reader posted a question a few weeks back on The B, asking about the publication date for the Tony Rice biography currently being compiled by Tim Stafford and Caroline Wright. Our readers surely know Tim as a member of Blue Highway, and as the writer of some of the most artful and intelligent songs [...]
The popular and acclaimed NashCamp has announced their Music Camps for 2006, with three, week-long events during the summer, and a weekend banjo retreat in the fall. First up is two weeks of bluegrass instruction, aptly named Bluegrass Weeks. Each of the two, one-week sessions feature well-known bluegrass performers as instructors, with a mix of [...]
This post is a contribution from Tim Stafford, founding member of bluegrass supergroup Blue Highway, and a celebrated and sought-after songwriter and producer outside of the band. He was also a member of Alison Krauss & Union Station before the advent of Blue Highway. Thanks to Brance Gillihan for asking me to say a few [...]
