Bluegrass band news

  • Chris Stapleton departs The Steeldrivers

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    The Steeldrivers have made quite a noise in the bluegrass world this past two years with a unique sound drawing heavily on the blues - and Chris Stapleton's distinctive songs and dark, musty vocal style. Their self-titled debut Rounder CD 

  • G2 – new music, and a new apartment?

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    One more release to note for March 30...  Swedish grassers G2 have dropped a single from their next CD, Untapped Routes. The song is Still Standing, written by lead singer/guitar Chris Olsson, and it is available now to broadcasters through

  • Mountain Heart Hostile Takeover at WSM

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    Josh Shilling and Jim VanCleve from Mountain Heart will commandeer the live WSM radio signal in Nashville this Thursday (4/1) from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. (CDT) in what they are calling the Mountain Heart Hostile Takeover. WSM has been promoting these

  • Win a pre-release copy of Things That Fly

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    How would you like to get an autographed copy of the new Infamous Strigdusters CD, Things That Fly, before it's available anywhere else? How about getting a free 'Dusters show poster in the bargain? Five lucky readers of Bluegrass Today will

  • Expedition Quartet to St. Petersburg

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    Colorado banjo player Jake Schepps and his band, Expedition Quartet, have just arrived in Russia. They have been invited to compete in the 1st Annual Terem Crossover in St. Petersburg this week, where they will go up against dozens of

  • Phil Bankester on Leadership Bluegrass

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    Phil Bankester, pére of the pickin' and singin' Bankester Family, was among the participants in the 2010 Leadership Bluegrass class. He passed along these thoughts about his time in Nashville last week. "Leadership Bluegrass was an incredible experience. It was three days of

  • Jason Davis to Ramblers Choice

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    Jason Davis will soon be the new banjo picker with Junior Sisk and Rambler's Choice. Darrell Wilkerson is leaving the band in April, and Jason will step in at that time. Davis has been playing with Grasstowne since the group formed

  • Chapmans radio push this week

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    The Chapmans are spending this week doing radio publicity for their new CD, Grown Up (A Revisionist History), recently released on Compass Records. The boys will be on live tomorrow morning (3/17) with Bill Cody on WSM 650 AM from Nashville

  • Boxcars rolling down the track

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    The bluegrass world has been abuzz since the end of 2009 when it was announced that Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon, Keith Garrett and John Bowman had assembled a new band. Billed as The Boxcars, the band has as of