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  • Chris Luquette to Dirty Kitchen

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    The stage at this past weekend's Wintergrass festival in Tacoma, WA was the setting for the official announcement that Chris Luquette was the new, full-time guitarist with Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. Solivan shared the news with us, emailing from the plane

  • New Doyle Lawson Gospel CD

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    Crossroads Music will release the latest in a long string of bluegrass Gospel albums from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver on March 20. This newest, Sing Me A Song About Jesus, offers 11 new songs from Doyle and the boys, all performed

  • Single hits from The Spinney Brothers

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    Canada's Spinney Brothers have a new single, the title track from their upcoming Memories album, due March 13 on Mountain Fever Records. The group is fronted by Allan Spinney on guitar and brother Rick on banjo, singing in the classic brother

  • Jeff Parker CD in May

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    Jeff Parker, the very talented and wildly entertaining mandolinist with Dailey & Vincent, is expecting to release a solo project this May on Lonesome Day Records. If you've caught the Dailey & Vincent show live, you know that Parker has a

  • Lou Reid & Carolina go their own way

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    Lou Reid & Carolina have a new CD, Callin' Me Back Home, ready to go, with a debut single just released via Airplay Direct. The song is Carolina Moonshine Man, written by Reid, Ray Edwards and Terry Foust. Lou tells us that the

  • Scott Walker to Appaloosa

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    Here's another change on the bluegrass band front. Scott Walker has been tapped to play banjo with Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa, filling a spot recently vacated by Lee Marcus. Lee had done two stints with Taylor's band, and is leaving

  • Mountain Heart sellout streak

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    Mountain Heart is having a heckuva strong start to their new year. Fiddler Jim VanCleve tells us that they have kicked off 2012 with a string of ten sold out shows, with a couple of nearly full houses in the mix

  • Ryan Cavanaugh checks in

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    With the spirited discussion about the boundaries of bluegrass music going on in the comments of our recent post, IBMA at the Crossroads, it's timely to catch up with banjo wizard Ryan Cavanaugh. Ryan is a singularly accomplished picker, equally at

  • New Ken Scoggins Gospel CD in the works

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    We caught up last week with Ken Scoggins, who reports that he is currently working on a follow-up to his successful 2010 album with Miller's Creek, Once In A Lifetime Thing. That last was a traditional bluegrass record, but Ken says

  • The New Founding Fathers

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    We've mentioned side projects a few times recently, and Milo Farineau sent along some of yet another. The Founding Fathers are Chris Pandolfi and Andy Falco from The Infamous Stringdusters who, at present, are doing some shows primarily in the