Celebrated luthier Dana Bourgeois has reached an auspicious milestone. After nearly 50 years building guitars, he has assigned serial number 10,000 to a truly special instrument, a highly ornate OM-45 model designed for the occasion. Bourgeois has reached into his personal
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Gary Brewer shares his guitars on House of Axes
On the heels of his hugely popular 40th Anniversary Celebration project, featuring collaborations with all sorts of top bluegrass performers, Gary Brewer is going small for his next album, releasing a set of solo pieces, just he and his guitars. House
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Tommy Emmanuel and Billy Strings jam on Doc’s Guitar and Black Mountain Rag
Attention Doc Watson fans and flatpick guitar lovers... Two of the premier steel string guitarists of our age have released a live video of their recorded tribute to Doc. Tommy Emmanuel and Billy Strings cut a medley of two instrumentals long
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Gallagher introduces Josh Rinkel signature guitar
Gallagher Guitar Company has announced two new models designed in collaboration with Josh Rinkel of The Po' Ramblin' Boys. Called the Josh Rinkel Standard and the Josh Rinkel Signature, these are both mahogany guitars with an Adirondack spruce top from eastern
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Together – new live project from Tony & Wyatt Rice
David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label has just released a truly historic recording of Tony and Wyatt Rice in their first duo performance in 1996. Entitled Tony & Wyatt Rice Together!, it captures these two brilliant flatpicking brothers from two consecutive
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A new guitar for James Davidson at ETSU
ETSU Bluegrass director Dan Boner with James Davidson from Ghana and his new guitar Last week, the Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University were able to do a kindness for one of their students, James
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G7th releases new colors for their Nashville capo
The G7th Capo company has introduced several new colors for its quick release Nashville guitar capo, in conjunction with this weekend's 2023 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. The Nashville capo is designed to be an effective, spring-loaded model offered at a
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Eddie Ray – Eddie Ray Buzzini
Eddie Ray Buzzini (whose given name is Ettore) makes his home in Mooresville, North Carolina. Just fifteen years old at the time of this recording's release, the young banjoist lives with his Swiss-Italian father and American mother born in East
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Meet rising Texas grasser Riley Gilbreath
Riley Gilbreath is an 18 year musician in Crowley, TX who is making noise on both the bluegrass and country scenes. His expressive voice, original songs, and skillful banjo and guitar playing have led him to be named The Next
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Alan Moore Stowell passes
Alan Stowell performing recently in Florida, and as a younger man This obituary is a contribution from C.P. Heaton, Alan's regular pickin' partner on guitar and banjo in the Gainesville clubs for many years. Florida fiddler and guitarist Alan Stowell, 78, died