Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Owensboro, KY -- The International Bluegrass Music Museum will host a gathering of all living Blue Grass Boys who played with Bill Monroe as part of the Pioneers of Bluegrass Reunion held during its River of Music Party (ROMP) in June. ...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Wired magazine’s Epicenter blog recently ran a story about an impending time bomb written into the Copyright Act of 1976. Their explanation of the legislation is that copyrights for sound recordings are soon going to be up for grabs. If an artist or author sold a copyright before 1978 (Section 304), they or their heirs can take [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Comedian Steve Martin had the opportunity on Tuesday night (11/10) to demonstrate to a British audience that he is a serious musician, and according to Wednesday’s review of his performance in the Guardian national newspaper he succeeded. Martin was on British TV (BBC2) on Tuesday night also. He performed on Later Live, and will be on [...]
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
Montecito Heights, Above the City (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Supposedly Ave 43's onramp will be closed for about two years from 7pm to 6am! Whoa, that won't be fun for us. Hopefully they are installing some nice big bumpers along the off and onramps to cut down on all of the ugly accidents. Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys "Life's Highway" Curumin "You Haven't Done Nothing"
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Hiltons, VA -- From the pastoral hills, hollers, shopping malls, and interstate highways of Goodlettsville, Tennessee; home of Bill Monroe, Bashful Brother Oswald, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Keith Whitely, and some living country music performers, comes the most entertaining blast from the past since Lester Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys. They’re the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band – five guys...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
In the late '30s and '40s, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys were the biggest stars in country music, but when he appeared onstage at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, he did so after a number of years spent toiling in relative obscurity The 1963 Newport Folk Festival boasted a roster filled to the brim with up and coming young performers including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Ian and Sylvia. Though the...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The following is an account from Wayne Taylor, describing his tour this past September in England and Scotland with his group, Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa. On September 21, 1995 in Rosine, Kentucky, the US Navy’s Country Current bluegrass group performed for the birthday celebration and plaque dedication ceremony for Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music. [...]
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Hot on the heels of a ASE Songwriter of the Year Award, Appalachian gospel artist Randall Franks releases a new single "Now I Know" from Crimson Records that pulls both from his Southern gospel heritage and his early bluegrass influences. ...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Rounder Records has brought back a couple of classic recordings from 1978, capturing a moment when what we might call progressive bluegrass music was still in the process of defining itself. Both albums are brimming with innovative ideas, and should be of interest to all bluegrass fans, perhaps most particularly banjo players. In 2009, Béla Fleck’s [...]
HinesSight (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Wrong, wrong, wrong. That mantra kept being repeated in my increasingly irritated mind as I read Bill Monroe's call to kill more cougars in last Sunday's Oregonian. Monroe is an outdoors writer. But it's obvious that he doesn't know much...
Valdosta Daily Times--Local News (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
October 22, 2009 09:33 pmAmerican Roots: MagnoliaFest returning to Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park By Dean Poling LIVE OAK, Fla. — For a dozen years, the MagnoliaFest has brought what is touted as a festival of American Roots Music just a few dozen miles south of the Georgia-Florida line. This week, the MagFest has returned with plenty of familiar Americana musicians for festival regulars and...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Saturday, October 24th, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert by Melvin Goins and Windy Mountain. Admission to the concert is $7 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free. Melvin Goins has been playing mountain string music for more than 50 years. The music he does became known as bluegrass about the time Melvin and his brother, Ray, started...
http://afreeman.org/?feed=rss2 (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
I’m here only tentatively. Peeking shyly from around the corner. Trying to build up the courage to join the crowd in the center of the dance floor doing the Soulja Boy or whatever the kids are doing in the center of the dance floor these days. Reminds me of Junior High School dances. I’m not being coy. [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
One thing that has always warmed my heart about bluegrass people is how willing we are to take care of our own. Though it is sometimes sad to see how often they occur, it is wonderful to see musicians and fans come together to support members of our extended bluegrass family when such a need [...]
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