Southwest Virginia’s Big Country Bluegrass continues to remind us what hard-core traditional bluegrass sounds like with their new CD Memories of the Past, scheduled for release next week. It is axiomatic that Memories of the Past (Rebel REB-CD 1848) should have
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Tracking with The Rigneys and Dark Shadow Recording: Days 5 and 6
Producer Stephen Mougin is working in the studio with The Rigneys for their next album this week. Being a harsh taskmaster, he has also prevailed upon the band members (Mom, Dad, and two sons) to record some of their impressions during the process. This
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The Definitive Doc Watson from Sugar Hill
Sugar Hill Records has announced a a July 16 release for anew compilation project from the late Doc Watson. The Definitive Doc Watson will contain 34 tracks on 2 CDs, covering selections from Watson's time recording for both the Vanguard and Sugar
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Tracking with The Rigneys and Dark Shadow Recording: Day 4
Producer Stephen Mougin is working in the studio with The Rigneys for their next album this week. Being a harsh taskmaster, he has also prevailed upon the band members (Mom, Dad, and two sons) to record some of their impressions during the process. This
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Barefoot Movement teases new CD in video
Barefoot Movement is one of those young groups proliferating in today's scene which bear substantial physical resemblance to a bluegrass band, but who use the familiar instruments to interpret original and contemporary music which is only partially influenced by Bill
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NewTown using pre-sale to help fund next CD
As NewTown prepares to start work on their first album for Crossroad Music's Pisgah Ridge label, the band is taking a slightly different approach with the now-familiar crowd sourcing formula to ask fans to help with recording costs. Pisgah Ridge is
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Gypsy Runaway Train from The Roys
Brother and sister duo, The Roys launch their new CD, which hits today, with an album release party at the Silver Dollar Saloon in Nashville on June 6th. The much anticipated third project, Gypsy Runaway Train, features seven standards and six
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Tracking with The Rigneys and Dark Shadow Recording: Day 3
Producer Stephen Mougin is working in the studio with The Rigneys for their next album this week. Being a harsh taskmaster, he has also prevailed upon the band members (Mom, Dad, and two sons) to record some of their impressions during the process. This
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Dark Shadow Recording launches new label
Stephen Mougin has made quite a career for himself in acoustic music. He plays guitar with the Sam Bush Band, and performs in a side project duo with banjo picker Ned Luberecki. Bluegrass artists seek him out as a record
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Reno & Harrell to John Boy & Billy
John Boy & Billy, Inc. have announced the signing of the new Reno & Harrell to their label. No... not the classic bluegrass pioneers from the 1960s, but the next generation of Reno & Harrell. Don Reno's boys, Don Wayne and