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We start a new feature this week with 20 Questions. When I write biographical articles on bluegrass stars I have to ask predictable questions, which means I usually get predictable answers. For this feature, I ask questions the artist may not have expected. You’re welcome to leave your own answers or ideas for future questions [...]
Tim Stafford shared these thoughts on the passing of Hazel Dickens. Hazel Dickens. One of a kind. With the passing of Harley Allen a few weeks ago and now Hazel, I feel like a page is being turned in the history of bluegrass and bluegrass songwriting. Hazel wrote and performed songs at a time when [...]
Good news for Blue Highway fans. Tim Stafford tells us that a new album won't be long in coming. "The band has finished tracking all but a few vocal parts for its new project, titled Sounds of Home. We recorded again in Big Stone Gap, VA at Maggard Sound with Jim Price at the controls. [...]
Tim Stafford checked in this morning with news about the next Blue Highway CD. "We started our 9th studio project – not counting compilations – this week at Maggard's Studio in Big Stone Gap, VA, where we've worked on the last three recordings with engineer Jim Price and Alan Maggard. The band decided to do [...]
This post is a contribution from Tom Bibey, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. You can see his profile here. I attended an IBMA songwriter business conference Tuesday morning. David Crow, a Nashville attorney who specializes in entertainment law, Nashville songwriter Larry Shell, and Tim Stafford of Blue Highway were among the panelists. The seminar [...]
We posted this past spring about CA Guitars closing up shop and going out of business, news that was most unwelcome to the small but exceedingly loyal band of CA aficionados out there. Their instruments were built with a carbon fiber composite that made the guitars impervious to changes in temperature or humidity, offering players [...]
This next week's syndicated broadcast of Into The Blue with Terry Herd will include an interview with Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford. They join Terry to discuss their superb new Rural Rhythm project, Dogwood Winter, and spin some of the tracks. Terry tells us that he will also feature tracks from previous albums on which [...]
Tim Stafford and Alecia Nugent have announced their engagement to be married. Could this be the next great bluegrass power couple? Tim tells us that he and Alecia had known each other for years, but became close when they worked together on her show at the Celtic Connections Festival in Scotland this past January. They [...]
Sometimes it can be a tad disconcerting reviewing the many recordings that come across our desk each week. Sure, there is a lot of good music, but not so much really great music - the sort that demands multiple listenings over the first few days. Listenings which don't just let the sound wash over you, [...]
What did you do on your summer vacation? Well, I used mine to finish reading a number of books that both captured my interest, and were worthy of review on Bluegrass Today. First up, let's tackle Still Inside - The Tony Rice Story, written by Tim Stafford and Caroline Wright, and published by Word Of [...]
