Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
For the first time, all three releases from bluegrass composer, banjoist and guitarist Tom Hanway are available digitally via Digital Revolution Entertainment at most online music stores including iTunes and Amazon. ...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
It's been hotter'n usual around here for this time of year and I've been enjoying it, knowing it wouldn't last, and today dawned chillier and blustery. And then I ran across this tune from Termite58 . This goes out to all my peer age group who may nod their heads in understanding of the lyrics. For folks who may not know who Herb Pedersen is, here's Termite58's notes: Herb Pedersen (born April 27,...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
This song comes off a 1979 album by the Charlie Daniels Band titled Million Mile Reflections . Vassar Clements also deserves some songwriting credit, as he wrote the fiddle hook (basically) in his tune Lonesome Fiddle Blues . For such a popular song, there are not a whole lot of real covers out there. Because of this, I’ve decided to include two renditions where the artist has made some slight...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Rounder is preparing to release a compilation project of John Hartford’s music on September 22. Entitled, Good’le Days: Essential Recordings, the new CD is part of Rounder’s budget-minded Perfect 10 Series, each of which includes ten tracks from an important Rounder artist. They show the selling price online as $7.99. How would you like to pick just [...]
Omniorthogonal (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Due to a major (positive) life event I have had in the past couple weeks numerous old friends, old photographs, old possessions, and old ideas all turning up unexpectedly. A few weeks back I cleaned out the garage and dug up several boxes of old records, this week I managed to get the turntable hooked up and listened to some tracks that have been following me around unheard of for two decades or more....
The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
Bernie O'Mahony, Ruth Dillon The Molly Hicks launch their eagerly awaited debut CD, as they kick off this year’s Guinness International Bluegrass Festival on Thursday 27 August, 7.00 p.m. at Azzuro @ The Ship, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. The Molly Hicks are an original and contemporary bluegrass unit based in Galway, featuring Ruth Dillon (vocals, guitar), Bernie O’Mahony (vocals, guitar),...
The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
Ireland AM has invited songwriter-raconteur Jack Grace [ left ] and Tom Hanway [ right ] to appear on the popular TV programme on Wednesday 26 August, 8.00 a.m. Jack will sing and pick Tom’s D-28V Herringbone Martin guitar, with Tom playing his Stelling SwallowTail banjo, performing ‘If you’re gonna raise a drunk’, the side-splitting single from the Jack Grace Band ’s...
The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
American bluegrass banjoist Tom Hanway , recently heard on RTE’s 'Roots Freeway', brings his new bluegrass band to Lynch’s in Tullamore on Sunday 9 August, 8.00-10.00 p.m. Tom Hanway & the Bluegrass Pals play their powerful, rock-inspired blend of bluegrass, newgrass, and original alt-country music. Hanway was recently signed to an international distribution deal and his three groundbreaking...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 21/06/2009
DAVE PERKINS - PISTOL CITY HOLINESS Dave Perkins is an artist whose musical journey crisscrosses the map of American music. Perkins’ work as a guitarist includes playing bluegrass and swing with fiddle-great Vassar Clements, Texas renegade-country with Jerry Jeff Walker, singer-songwriter pop with Carole King, alternative rock with Chagall Guevara, Americana with Guy Clark, blues and jazz with...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 22/05/2009
Vassar Clements may be among the most distinctive bluegrass fiddle players, but on his latest endeavor Livin’ with the Blues, he sets his sights on an entirely different genre and explores it with equally adept aplomb. Surrounding himself with a few ringers who undoubtedly are well-known to blues afficionados, if not the public at large — Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo, Roy Rogers, David...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
The Herschel Sizemore Mandolin Workshop will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at the Holiday Inn in Roanoke Virginia. Sizemore will be teaching subjects such as learning to play melody, how to play with good tone, tune introductions & endings, "Less is More", and much more. ...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 13/01/2009
Casy Driessen is a rather funky fellow. He wears red shoes. He eats headphones at art museums. Sometimes he channels Vassar Clements.
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
BluegrassTime.com announces the publication of Phil Zimmerman's book Bluegrass Time: A Musician's Photographs of the Early Days of Bluegrass Festivals. Featuring photographs taken between 1972 and 1984, the book documents the passing of the torch from the first generation pioneers of bluegrass to their successors, who include some of today's top performers. ...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
When current New Riders of the Purple Sage and former Hot Tuna guitarist Michael Falzarano put together his latest solo album, We Are All One , he enlisted the help of many of the great musicians that have become part of his extended family including the late Vassar Clements, Buddy Cage of the New Riders, JGB’s Melvin Seals and Kerry Kearney. The resulting album takes you on a cohesive journey...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Listen to The New Riders of the Purple Sage performed at Beacon Theatre on November 14, 1975
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