Old time super picker Ken Perlman has released his latest book for banjo players with Mel Bay Publications. Cape Breton & Prince Edward Island Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo is now available, and its title perfectly describes what is offered in
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Hold To A Dream – John Cowan bio coming in May
Backbeat Books has announced a May 21 release for Hold To A Dream - A New Grass Odyssey, the official autobiography of John Cowan, written with Jimmy Schwartz. In addition to a chronicle of John's life and career, the book's narrative
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Summer Brooke is back as an author, and on TV
One of our favorite artists over the past decade has been Summer Brooke McMahan, in her time with her family band Mountain Faith, on her own, and with her brother as Summer & Bray. We followed the rapid rise of
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Paris remembers from Discovering Tony Rice, by Bill Amatneek
The Bicentennial Bluegrass Band, aka, The Keith Unit, Paris, France 1977 (Tony Rice, Bill Amatneek,Bill Keith, David Grisman, Darol Anger) - photo © Patrick Ciocca Noted west coast bass player and bluegrass chronicler Bill Amatneek has made one of the vignettes
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Discovering Tony Rice by Bill Amatneek
Bill Amatneek, bassist on the first David Grisman Quintet album and a four decade bass and banjo pro on the west coast, has written a new biography of Tony Rice, called Discovering Tony Rice. It is scheduled to be released
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Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record
The murder ballad has been a part of bluegrass, old time, and folk music in the US since the beginning. Drawing on the British or Celtic heritage of so many of the people of the Appalachian region, many of the
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Dan Levenson’s Master Collection of Old Time Tunes
Mel Bay has released a new book that will be of interest to all players of old time string music. It's titled Dan Levenson's Master Collection of Old Time Tunes - Over 300 tunes in standard notation for all instruments, written
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Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
How long have you been interested in bluegrass and old-time music? Could it be that records by George Pegram, the Boston-based Spark Gap Wonder Boys, or Joe Val were among the first that you bought? What these artists and the likes
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The end for the Bluegrass Ireland Blog?
Richard Hawkins, the editor of The Bluegrass Ireland Blog since November 2005, has announced his forthcoming retirement from this role. In a statement on the Blog, he indicated ….. "I intend to give up work on the Bluegrass Ireland Blog (BIB)
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Texas Bluegrass Legacies book coming in July
From the moment they picked up the radio signal of Bill Monroe's mandolin, Texans have been enamoured with this uniquely American style of music. But the high lonesome sound couldn't have put down roots without a tradition of mentorship that