http://bluegrasstoday.com Your independent source of bluegrass news. Fri, 24 May 2013 12:04:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/long-road-home-back-to-dixieland/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/long-road-home-back-to-dixieland/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 12:04:21 +0000 Richard Thompson http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52834 What’s more retro than a vinyl 45? Long Road Home, the quintet formed in 2005 by Martin Gilmore (guitar) and Justin Hoffenberg (fiddle), and now additionally consisting of Pete Wernick (banjo), Jordan Ramsey (mandolin) and Andrew Bonnis on bass, has announced the release of a [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/long-road-home-back-to-dixieland/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/bill-monroe-painting-on-kentucky-monthly/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/bill-monroe-painting-on-kentucky-monthly/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 21:57:12 +0000 John Lawless http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52846 Despite living much of his life in Tennessee, Bill Monroe will always be inextricably linked with Kentucky, the state of his birth, whose nickname serves as the designation for the music he created. He is being remembered anew in the June issue of Kentucky Monthly, [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/bill-monroe-painting-on-kentucky-monthly/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/rodgers-remembrance-vol-ix-any-old-time/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/rodgers-remembrance-vol-ix-any-old-time/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 20:28:29 +0000 Daniel Mullins http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52847 This week we are going to once again remember the life and times of America’s Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman, and the Father of Country Music: the late, great Jimmie Rodgers. On Saturday, May 26, Jimmie Rodgers will have been gone 80 years. Arguably the [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/rodgers-remembrance-vol-ix-any-old-time/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/roger-smith-passes/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/roger-smith-passes/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 13:23:00 +0000 John Lawless http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52833 Former Blue Grass Boy, Roger Smith of Milton, Indiana passed away Wednesday, May 22 at Reid Hospital in Richmond, Indiana. He was 86 years old. Born in Amelia, VA July 11, 1926, Roger grew up in North Carolina and started learning guitar, and later fiddle and banjo, as [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/roger-smith-passes/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/larry-sparks-at-50/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/larry-sparks-at-50/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 13:12:55 +0000 John Lawless http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52487 We caught up recently with the legendary Larry Sparks to get an update on his next album, a celebration of his 50th year performing in bluegras music. It is expected to be released on Rebel Records in the latter part of 2013. Like 40, his previous milestone [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/larry-sparks-at-50/feed/ 2 http://bluegrasstoday.com/standing-by-your-side-from-mustered-courage/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/standing-by-your-side-from-mustered-courage/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 12:46:06 +0000 John Lawless http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52829 Aussie grassers Mustered Courage are using the occasion of their new CD, Powerlines, to release a music video for the opening track, Standing By Your Side. They employ a clever concept, with the band members posing as colorful street characters who accost passersby in a [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/standing-by-your-side-from-mustered-courage/feed/ 1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/friday-at-gettysburg-13/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/friday-at-gettysburg-13/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 21:09:46 +0000 John Lawless http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52819 Here is another set of Frank Baker’s images from the 2013 Spring Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.  ]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/friday-at-gettysburg-13/feed/ 2 http://bluegrasstoday.com/rodgers-remembrance-vol-viii-my-rough-and-rowdy-ways/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/rodgers-remembrance-vol-viii-my-rough-and-rowdy-ways/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 18:27:52 +0000 Daniel Mullins http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52810 This week we are going to once again remember the life and times of America’s Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman, and the Father of Country Music: the late, great Jimmie Rodgers. On Sunday, May 26, Jimmie Rodgers will have been gone 80 years. Arguably the [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/rodgers-remembrance-vol-viii-my-rough-and-rowdy-ways/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/its-enough-to-give-you-the-willies/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/its-enough-to-give-you-the-willies/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:51 +0000 Chris Jones http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52827 A Bluegrass Junction listener—we’ll call her “Laura” (because that was her name)—emailed me recently, pointing out that there are an awful lot of bluegrass songs in which women are murdered. After much thought and reflection, I gave her this subtly nuanced answer: “Yes.” I’ve never [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/its-enough-to-give-you-the-willies/feed/ 8 http://bluegrasstoday.com/wsm-live-compilation-includes-mccoury-grascals-cuts/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/wsm-live-compilation-includes-mccoury-grascals-cuts/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 13:02:51 +0000 John Lawless http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52784 The legendary WSM AM 650 in Nashville, home of the Grand Ole Opry since 1925, has assembled a compilation album of live performances broadcast on the station over the last few years. Live From The Archives, Vol. 1 is set for a June 25 release. [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/wsm-live-compilation-includes-mccoury-grascals-cuts/feed/ 0