Bob Mitchell will feature The Sons Of Bluegrass, a group consisting of students studying for the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music degree at East Tennessee State University, on his Best Of Bluegrass show this weekend. The show will air Friday
Author: John Lawless
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Carl Jackson Gospel guitar CD
If you've been following bluegrass as long as your humble correspondent, you'll have watched Carl Jackson go from a skinny kid playing banjo with Jim & Jesse as a teenager in the late 1960s, to one of the most respected
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Billy Joe Foster passes
We have learned that Billy Joe Foster, noted Oklahoma picker, passed away today at 51 years of age. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Foster played fiddle with Bill Monroe, bass with Country Gazette, and several instruments with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. He was
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Fundraiser for Chris Suen
Chris Suen is a banjo player and old time music/dance enthusiast in Vancouver who was seriously injured in an auto accident in the late summer of 2012. He is a hard working musician, who had been touring throughout western Canada
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Mike Auldridge tribute at The Birchmere
An all-star collaboration concert has been scheduled for February 12 to celebrate the life and music of Mike Auldridge, who died after a lengthy illness on Dec 28, 2012. Mike's influence on the worlds of bluegrass and resonator guitar can scarcely
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Flatt Lonesome debuts on Bluegrass Junction
The debut, self-titled CD from Flatt Lonesome isn't due until January 29 on Pisgah Ridge Records, but folks curious about this much-hyped young band can hear the entire album this morning on Track By Track with Kyle Cantrell on SiriusXM's Bluegrass
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Station Inn hits Southern Living
The Station Inn, a Nashville landmark for bluegrass music lovers for nearly 40 years, has been chosen as among the 2013 South's Best Bars in Southern Living magazine. They made the list this year in the Live Music category, along with
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Tone Poems – Deluxe Edition
David Grisman and his Acoustic Oasis label have just released a digital Deluxe Edition of his classic Tone Poems album, recorded as a set of instrumental duets with Tony Rice in 1993. This was a concept project at the time, designed
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Brad Davis: one new guitar and three new records in 2013
It's only January, but fiery flatpicker and noted singer/songwriter Brad Davis has a full year's worth of notable achievements he can announce all at once. The new Bluegrass Valley Records label has tasked Brad with recording and delivering three new projects
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Bordergrass from Platarapido
Well looky here... Monroeville claims to have discovered an ethnomusicological missing link. I'll admit to a bit of skepticism here. Monroeville says that the outfit in this video is a mariachi band called Platarapido which they encountered along the US southern border, but