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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Ed Schaeffer and Rattlesnake Hill are releasing their new bluegrass CD: Ride Out the Storm, featuring prominent Washington DC area musicians the late Jack Sanbower on Banjo, Frank Solivan II on Mandolin, Carolyn Kellock on Bass, Heather Twigg on Fiddle & Vocals, Kevin Conroy on Lead Guitar, and Ed Schaeffer on Rhythm Guitar & Vocals. ...
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The Richmond Indiana-based Palladium-Item reported on Sunday that bluegrass veteran Larry Sparks is to receive the Legacy Continues Award from the Starr-Gennett Foundation. Sparks who has enjoyed over 40 years as a professional bluegrass musician, beginning when he started high school and was at the same time working for the Stanley Brothers. Subsequently, he formed his [...]
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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Rebel Records is set to release another Ralph Stanley collection titled, Old-Time Pickin' on October 7, 2008. Rebel has released many Stanley releases including the famed Box Set that is still popular today. Details haven't been fully disclosed yet. Cybergrass will update you as soon as more is known about this exciting release. ...
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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
As hillbilly as white lightning, the Earl Brother's Moonshine is the music of the region even if it comes from straight from the left coast and San Francisco Bay area of California! ...
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Ricky Skaggs has covered bluegrass heroes Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers. Now, he has covered himself. Skaggs, who had a dozen #1 hits as a country singer before returning to his bluegrass roots in 1997, re-recorded his country hits to give them a bluegrass spin for a new project with Cracker Barrel restaurants. The CD, The [...]
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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
The Blue Canyon Boys have been picking and entertaining audiences with their unique style of bluegrass in the Colorado area for over four years. This high energy, bluegrass powerhouse consists of Gary Dark on mandolin, Jason Hicks on guitar, Drew Garrett on bass, and Jeff Scroggins on banjo. Blending incredible brother-duet-style vocals and hard-driving instrumental proficiency, this energetic band...
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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Cybergrass wants to introduce you to another bluegrass band. This profile is on The Redeye Ramblers,a bluegrass music band from Asheville, N.C. began playing traditional, gospel, and original bluegrass music together in the fall of 2006. These musicians combine many years of experience playing and performing bluegrass music. ...
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Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
As the second series comes to an end (that's 75 shows in all) here's everything you wanted to know about Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour. Most played artist: George Jones - "Kind of a cross between a modern-day Prometheus...
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
The Bluegrass Blog would like to wish a very happy 83rd birthday to George Shuffler. George was born April 11, 1925. Shuffler is viewed by many as a pivotal figure in the development of bluegrass guitar styles. He spent 18 years with The Stanley Brothers, where he developed his trademark guitar style known today as crosspicking. At [...]
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Even if you don't care much for bluegrass, you can't help but admire Ricky Skaggs' enthusiasm for the music and its formative years.
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 29/03/2008
My oldest son sends compilation CDs of music he thinks I’ll enjoy. His taste is reliably good and his musical interests are broad so the discs often spend weeks in my car. For the first time in years I’m learning new music – that is, music new to me – by heart. His latest gift is heavy on Dylan oddities (“Dixie”), Dylan covers and Sam Cooke but also great live versions of Neil Young’s “Powderfinger”...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
Union Station may be temporarily shut down, so its guitarist/vocalist revs up his solo career.
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
“On Route 23 down in eastern Kentucky…” So begins the mournful song written by Jack Adkins and Buddy Dee, and recorded by the Stanley Brothers in February 1958 at Radio WCYB in Bristol, VA. No School Bus In Heaven was the last official studio recording that Carter and Ralph would make for the Mercury label. It relates [...]
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RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008
So, I went to one of the 23 Starbucks locations that are within two blocks of my house and purchased the latest edition in their “Artist's Choice” series of CDs, where famous musicians pick their own favorite recordings made by other people. This new one contains the selections of Bob Dylan. It cost me [...]
