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Alvin Breeden remembered
This remembrance of Alvin Breeden, who passed away earlier this week, is a contribution from Geoff Stelling. Alvin played a Stelling banjo, and the two of them became friends Geoff moved his company to central Virginia in the early 1980s. Geoff combined a number of [...]
The Touch of Time
With his recent CD, The Touch of Time, Bill Emerson and his Sweet Dixie bandmates add to a legacy he began over a half-century ago as a founding member of the Country Gentlemen. This new release from Rural Rhythm Records features an unusally large helping [...]
Sweet Dixie and InMotion
In my own small brush with posterity, I once exchanged emails with Craig Newmark of Craig’s List back in 1997. I had run an ad on the San Francisco-based bulletin board system that read, “Free beer and Bluegrass in Fairfax this Friday,” and he wanted to [...]
Wally Hughes to Sweet Dixie
Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie have a couple of news bits for this afternoon. First off, they are celebrating the official release of their latest CD, The Touch Of Time, on Rural Rhythm. It is now available wherever you might purchase recorded bluegrass music. On [...]
Sweet Dixie video hits
Rural Rhythm has released a debut music video from The Touch of Time, the upcoming CD by Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie, due January 31 on Rural Rhythm. It’s a clever performance video with animation added for the song My Baby Thinks He’s A Train. [...]
My Baby Thinks He’s A Train from Sweet Dixie
A first single has been released to radio from the upcoming Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie project, The Touch Of Time. The album hits January 31 on Rural Rhythm, but radio programmers can download the single, My Baby Thinks He’s A Train, from Airplay Direct. The [...]
July is Virginia Bluegrass Festival Month
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has issued a proclamation declaring July 2011 as Virginia Bluegrass Festival Month. It, and six others recognizing Virginia natives who have profoundly affected the development of bluegrass music, will be read from the stage during the Oak Leaf Festival in Luray, [...]
10 digital reissues from Pinecastle
The resurrected Pinecastle Records has announced a digital re-release of ten classic albums originally found on the Webco label. Pinecastle had acquired Webco back in 1993, and these reissues involve both then-existing catalog items and subsequent anthologies. These include albums from Bill Emerson, Bill Harrell, [...]
Big day for Rural Rhythm
Wow… lots of new releases to note for March 22. What is it about the end of March? Rural Rhythm Records has three projects that hit today. I’m sure that we will have more to say about each of them, but here’s a quick heads [...]
Frank Solivan’s birthday bash
Monday was Frank Solivan’s 34th birthday, but the crowd who spent it with him in a Rockville, MD, church hall got the present – two and a half hours of pickin’ and singin’ by an all-star lineup usually only seen in Nashville. The Institute of [...]
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