JD Crowe

  • Fanning The Fire

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    Fanning The Fire, a new short documentary set to enter this season's film festival circuit, uses the passion and excitement of a young Texas picker to demonstrate to audiences of any age what bluegrass music is all about. Though it features

  • Jim Mills to fill in for Crowe

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    We have learned that power picker Jim Mills will be filling in this weekend for JD Crowe. As we reported last month, JD fell last month exiting his tour bus, and broke his left arm in two places. Jim has trimmed

  • JD Crowe update

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    Good news is coming in about JD Crowe, following the serious fall he took last Friday evening (2/18) on the way to a show. As we posted over the weekend, Crowe broke his left upper arm and a bone in his

  • JD takes a spill

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    We have just learned that banjo pioneer JD Crowe took a fall last night as he was stepping off the bus en route to the Joe Val festival in Framingham, MA. A quick trip to the hospital revealed that his

  • More great photos from IBMA

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    In adition to the fine photos taken by our 2010 IBMA shooters (Russ Carson, Christy Reid and Roy Swann), we have found a number of other sites that have images posted. Cindy Baucom, who co-produced the Awards Show with Trisha Tubbs,

  • Classic New South on WSKV

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    Here's another radio event you won't want to miss today (9/27). Ricky Wasson, guitarist and lead vocalist with JD Crowe and the New South, will join Zeke Buttons on WSKV FM to introduce one of the most fabled and sought-after recordings

  • Crowe, Lawson, Williams – Old Friends

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    JD Crowe, Doyle Lawson and Paul Williams clearly qualify for "living legend" status in the world of bluegrass music. Though each is now a well-established bandleader, they all served an apprenticeship with the great Jimmy Martin as members of his

  • Ricky Skaggs on bluegrass hair

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    The Washington Post Clik Track blog had a piece last Friday (1/8) on bluegrass hair, and who better to discuss it than Ricky Skaggs. This was actually an offshoot of a more serious discussion about the future of country music, and

  • New faces in The New South

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    J.D. Crowe & The New South has two new members to announce for 2010. Kyle Perkins has come aboard to fill the bass spot recently vacated by John Bowman (now playing fiddle with The Boxcars). Just 24 years old, Kyle had