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Free stream of April Verch’s Bright Like Gold
Thanks to April Verch for offering Bluegrass Today readers a chance to listen to her new album, Bright Like Gold, for a limited time here on the site. All 17 tracks can be streamed in the player below. The record, released on April 1, features [...]
April Verch in the studio, and online
Fiddler and vocalist April Verch has been in the studio this past two weeks, working on a new project expected in April of 2013. She and her band (Cody Walters on bass and banjo, and Hayes Griffin on guitar), have been tracking with Chris Rosser, at Hollow [...]
A Tag-Team Call for Diversity
Get over it, already. Missy Raines and Chris Jones didn’t say it quite so bluntly, but that was the underlying message of their keynote address to kick off IBMA’s World of Bluegrass Conference Monday in Nashville. Using humor, a bit of self-deprecation and video testimony [...]
Mac Wiseman remembers Earl Scruggs
Over the next few days, we will share remembrances of Earl Scruggs from his peers, and the many banjo players whose lives he transformed. Hopefully, we will be able to piece together a portrait of Earl the musician, and Earl the man. Just moments ago, [...]
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, [...]
Bill Monroe 2 for 1 released today
As many organizations begin to acknowledge the coming Bill Monroe centennial, Raven Records of Australia releases two landmark albums of music from the father of bluegrass music. Coupled together on one CD are Bill Monroe and Friends (released on LP in 1984) and Bill Monroe [...]
Mac & Wichita
Mac Wiseman has been a little out of pocket lately due to a broken leg, but after his doctor gave him an “all clear” report, he called up his buddy Wichita Rutherford. Mac called and asked if I would give him a ride to Cracker [...]
Reno & Smiley and Mac Wiseman DVDs
Blue Highways TV has released two DVDs containing classic television performances by Reno & Smiley and Mac Wiseman. Bluegrass 1963, the Reno & Smiley DVD has twenty songs from a television pilot they recorded in Roanoke, VA in 1963 at WDBJ, which led to a [...]
Mac Wiseman – Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs
One of the recent new releases from Rebel Records is Mac Wiseman’s Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs (REB CD 7523). The 14 recordings in this collection came about due to the mutually beneficial liaison during the mid-1970s between Lou Ukelson, owner of Vetco Records, who was [...]
Mac Wiseman breaks a leg
In show business the phrase “Break a leg” is used frequently to encourage a performer by wishing them good luck without saying “good luck,” which is considered bad luck. Unfortunately, Mac Wiseman literally broke his right femur just above the knee recently. He was taken [...]
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