Sugar Hill has announced, perhaps with a touch of irony, that the new CD from The Infamous Stringdusters will be released on 4/20. Things That Fly marks something of a departure for the band, as they chose to work Gary Paczosa
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Straight-ahead Jazz For Banjo, from Pat Cloud
Playing jazz on the five string banjo is a daunting task. The instrument is not laid out well for the sort of long, linear passages common in jazz, and not many banjo players have done the homework necessary to really
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Bluegrass artists blogging the Grammies
Both Barry Scott & Second Wind and Kym Warner of The Greencards are blogging their experiences at The Grammies this weekend. You can follow Barry and the gang's exploits starting at 5:00 p.m. today (1/30) on their Facebook page, and
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Bela Fleck – Unreleased Tracks
Great news for fans of Béla Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart CD, and his brother Sascha Palatino's accompanying film of the same name. Béla has released 14 new tracks that he recorded during his 2005 musical journey of discovery in the
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Ryan Holladay, Discover Bluegrass and Mashville Brigade
We heard this week from Phil Bankester, pére of the singing Bankester Family of Illinois, and a video producer with Genuine Human Productions in Nashville. Phil was at The Station Inn on Tuesday for the weekly Mashville Brigade show to
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Making bluegrass history in DC
New bluegrass fans may not realize the impact that the Washington, DC area had on the history of our music, especially if they live far from the nation's capitol. In the 1970s and '80s a very active bluegrass scene had sprung
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The Boxcars on Tennessee Shines
We've posted a few times about The Boxcars, the new supergroup formed late in 2009 by Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon, John Bowman and Keith Garrett. To date, they have only played a few shows together and are working on
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Lonesome River Band in BU
Lonesome River Band is on the cover of the February 2010 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, on newstands now. The cover feature - plus a sidebar on LRB guitarist/vocalist Brandon Rickman - was written by Chris Stuart, a regular BU contributor and
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Lilly Drumeva – Lovin’ You
Bulagrian bluegrass songstress Lilly Drumeva has a new CD on Polysound Records. Lovin' You was recorded in both Bulgaria, with her band Lilly Of The West, and in Czech Republic, where she recorded with Czech grassers Monogram. The album features covers
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New video in the works for Dixie Bee-Liners
The Dixie Bee-Liners will soon be releasing a video of their single Heavy. The song, which appears on the Bee-Liners' recent release Susanville, heavily features mountain dulcimer and fiddle. Director Chris Connor and the band shot the video on location in