What's this...? Rock 'n' banjo man Todd Taylor playing an Earl Scruggs tune? Someone must have gotten their signals crossed. Nope... Taylor is just returning to the Scruggs' style banjo he mastered in his youth, when he first came to wide
Author: John Lawless
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Devin Jones wins Fletcher Bright scholarship at Berklee
Devin Jones, a first year guitar student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, has been awarded a Fletcher Bright Endowed Scholarship to help pay for his ongoing studies. Fiddler Ruth Shumway was also chosen to receive this scholarship.
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Seth Mulder on next Midnight Run album
Seth Mulder & Midnight run with engineer Jim Robeson, and co-producersKen Irwin and Dudley Connell - photo © Jeromie Stephens We caught up with Seth Mulder over the past few days, and learned some very interesting details about his next album
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Pull The Trigger – new single from The Grascals
The Grascals - photo © Laci Mack Mountain Home Music has a new single this week for The Grascals, a bluesy love song written by Jamie Johnson and Shawn Camp called Pull The Trigger. Now back with the band after an absence
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Same Old Blues from Josh Graves for digital reissue
CMH Records has another classic recording set for digital re-issue this week, Josh Graves' 1977 album Same Old Blues. Graves, or as he was known during his many years with Flatt & Scruggs, Uncle Josh, both plays his reso-guitar and sings
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Glen Duncan benefit show in Nashville next month
The stars will definitely be out in Nashville on May 15 when a dozen or more top bluegrass artists will congregate at 3rd & Lindsley for a Music City benefit concert for Glen Duncan. Among the finest of Nashville fiddlers,
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Big Wheels video from Authentic Unlimited
Billy Blue Records has a music video this week for their current single with Authentic Unlimited, Big Wheels. And no, it has nothing to do with the popular children's three wheel bike. Written by AU bassist and vocalist Jerry Cole, this
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Wild Mountain Rose video from Full Cord
Simultaneous with the pre-sale announcement of a vinyl edition of their current Dark Shadow Recordings album, Cambium, Full Cord has released a music video for one of the songs, Wild Mountain Rose. The vinyl release is a collaboration between Dark Shadow
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Broadcast/podcast info for From The Top – Rural Episode
Back in February we reported that 16-year-old North Carolina banjo phenom, Bayla Davis, who plays with her siblings in Newfound Gap, had been chosen as a a 2023-’24 Learning and Media Lab Fellowship by From The Top, an organization that seeks to further
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I Can Hear The Savior from the King James Boys
Pinecastle Records has released a debut single from their next gospel project with the King James Boys, who spent much of 2023 in the studio finishing it up. This will be the follow-up to their successful 2022 release, Walk on