Tag: Jerry Butler
Great Northern Indoor Bluegrass Music Festival
This past weekend Terry and Jan Lease hosted the 19th edition of the Great Northern Indoor Bluegrass Music Festival. Friday brought Newtown, Larry Sparks, Special C, Kody Norris, and a relatively new band from Minnesota, Copper Creek. Saturday featured Donna Ulisse, The Boxcars, Little Roy Lewis [...]
Butler and the J’s to release One Day
Coming March 10 is One Day, a new all-Gospel project from Jerry Butler and The Blu-J’s. The album is a mix of new and classic material, some of it suggested by fans who Jerry says have been after him for some time to put together. Many [...]
Blu-J’s in the studio
Jerry Butler & the Blu-J’s were back in the studio over the weekend, getting started on an all-Gospel project slated for a late September release. Butler is on guitar and lead vocals, with Derek Vaden on banjo and finger-style guitar, Lee Chapman on bass, and [...]
Pickin’ On Cystic Fibrosis
This post is a contribution from Amanda Webb, who will be a regular correspondent when Bluegrass Today goes live – soon, I promise! What do you get when you combine one man’s love for music, a desire to meet a need, and a supportive bluegrass [...]
New CD and banjo picker for Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler & the Blu J’s have much to celebrate this week. Their new CD, Stranger In My Own Hometown, is out on Blue Circle Records. This is the first release Butler with his band, but not his first recording. He has previously appeared on [...]
Charlie Cushman the newest Blu-J
Jerry Butler & The Blu-J’s had a big announcement last night. Nashville banjo monster Charlie Cushman has joined the band, and will begin touring with them right away. Cushman has been widely-regarded as a “banjo player’s banjo player,” even while his infrequent touring has shielded [...]
More changes afoot…
Well, here are a couple more band changes to announce at year’s end. Mandolinist Bobby Clark is leaving the Williams & Clark Expedition to work with Jerry Butler & The Blu-J’s. Clark has toiled in the bluegrass salt mines for for quite some time, perhaps [...]
Fastest Grass Alive
Here’s a fun story we just received from Kevin Triplett, Vice President of Public Affairs at the famed Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, TN. Kevin is also a bluegrasser, and an IBMA member, who snuck a couple of bluegrass boys in for a run on [...]
Jerry Butler interview at Knoxville Trivia
The Knoxville Trivia Blog has posted an interview with Knoxville native, and current Carolina Road guitarist, Jerry Butler. They talk about Jerry’s early days with the Knoxville Newgrass Boys, life on the road, and the new CD with Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, with the [...]
Jerry Butler to Carolina Road
We mentioned recently that guitarist Jerry Butler had left Pine Mountain Railroad, and just found out where he landed. Jerry has joined up with Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road where he will be featured as a lead singer along with band leader Jordan. He joins [...]
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