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Guitarists and innumerable others, whether pickers or not, will have been saddened by the news of the death (Monday 1 September) of Jerry Reed from emphysema. Listeners to the BBC years ago will remember his playing of 'The Claw' as a regular feature of the Folk and Country shows. A full report appears on the Bluegrass Blog , which includes tributes from Jim Hurst and Tony Rice .
Many of our readers may have already learned of the passing of guitarist, comedian and actor Jerry Reed. He died on Monday (9/1) in hospice, suffering from emphysema. Since the 1960s, he delighted audiences with his music and humor, eventually crossing over as a movie actor in the 1970s. His recordings with Chet Atkins are required [...]
British insurer Prudential Plc Wednesday says it has agreed to take responsibility for more than 1 billion pounds ($1.76 billion) of pension assets from telecoms firm Cable & Wireless.
Mountain Heart is scheduled to play three shows with southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd in September. Fiddler Jim van Cleve tells us that show promoter Kent Martin was so impressed with the band that he started talking with them about performing in other venues. Martin knew Mountain Heart vocalist Josh Shilling before he joined the band, and [...]
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band at work and at play while making the new record! CONOR OBERST, self-titled (Merge) Official Site | MySpace | Samples (Amazon) Assembling a group of musician friends known unofficially as The Mystic Valley Band (Nate Walcott, Jason Boesel, Macey Taylor, Nik Freitas, and Taylor Hollingsworth), Conor Oberst spends time [...]
A lively little ditty to brighten your day. This video was on YouTube's front page today. Are they recommending things based on your viewing habits like Amazon now? Fine by me. Tony Rice guitar , Jerry Douglas dobro , Sam Bush mandolin , Mark O'Connor fiddle and Béla Fleck on banjo.
All-time bluegrass guitar hero Tony Rice is offering autographed copies of a print that shows his fabled left hand in a typically contorted position. The print is from the original drawing, Jump On It, by Adam Carlos, part of his Hands Of Music series that includes renderings of the hands of some of the most noted [...]
EMPIRE, Mich., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Leelanau County
Circuit Court rejected a last-minute effort to cancel the Dunegrass music
festival scheduled to run for four days this weekend (July 31 & August 1-3)
in Empire, located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Leelanau County. Judge
Thomas Power ruled that the plaintiffs (Ann and Eric Arnold) failed to
prove that the harm that an injunction would...
Burlington, MA -- No other guitarist in the last thirty years has had a greater impact on acoustic music than Tony Rice. The new Rounder compilation, Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection, due August 5, contains a broad selection of the music icon's engaging vocal tunes taken from several of his albums - as well as three previously unreleased tracks - and demonstrates the wide range of non-bluegrass...
Midweek tired-of-politics silliness. Back in March I posted Church Street Blues by Tony Rice. I said this: This is from an old lesson tape. Lesson: Just play it like Tony does. Filip Vrba I would like to thank young Mr. Vrba for a) following my advice, and b) the 22,347 hits on the Brain it took him to learn it. Not bad for a kid who's waaaay east of Fixer and for whom English is not his first language....
Jerry Douglas, certified master of the resonator guitar, has a new CD due out August 19 on Koch Records. This will be his 12th solo project in a career that spans more than 30 years, and stints with a who’s who of bluegrass and acoustic artists: Country Gentlemen, JD Crowe & The New South, Boone [...]
I’m sitting in Mill Valley recuperating from Wednesday’s surgery, entitled a “Left Side Lapiroscopic Micro-Discectomy”. It means they cut out all the fragmented piece of my L4-L5 disc. Apparently this removes the materials that are abrading my spinal and sciatic nerves. Anyways, I’ve been super uncomfortable and unable to move, so I’ve tunneled deeply into [...]
Flatpicking Radio is back on the air. New, improved and better than ever, Flatpicking Radio is dedicated to the promotion of acoustic flatpicking guitar styles from jazz to bluegrass, from musicians like Eddie Lang and Django Rienhardt to Doc Watson and Tony Rice. ...
