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,
Author: John Lawless
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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
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Track Premiere: Heading West from The Stetson Family
We are delighted to highlight a new track today from Australia's The Stetson Family, genre-defying bluegrass/acoustic band based in Melbourne, with no members related to one another, nor named Stetson. The name was chosen back in 2008 when the principals
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Musicians sought for production of Bright Star
We heard yesterday from Gary Reid, who alerted us to the fact that a new production of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's bluegrass musical, Bright Star, is going to be staged next month in Bedford, VA. The Little Town Players in
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The Banks Are Covered in Blue from Laurie Lewis
Another single from west coast bluegrass superstar Laurie Lewis' next album, Trees, is available this week, one she wrote with her fiddler Brandon Godman called The Banks Are Covered in Blue. All Brandon planned to do was put together a lovely
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Just Beyond from Rick Lang and Barry Abernathy
Billy Blue Records has announced a new, all-gospel album with noted bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang. Titled Blue Collar Gospel, the project unites new Lang compositions with some of the top vocalists in bluegrass, as we hear on the first single,
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Calton and Hoffee Cases to merge
The two top manufacturers of high quality musical instrument flight cases, Calton and Hoffee, have announced plans for a merger. Calton, whose molded fiberglass cases are made in Austin, TX, and Hoffee, who make their carbon fiber cases near Chicago,