Tag: Rob Ickes

On The Edge from Frank Solivan

| April 3, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Compass Records has announced that the Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen album On the Edge (COM4602) is now available in digital format. The project is the first since Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen and Compass Records linked up in February. It consists of 10 all-original [...]

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Family Chain available again from John Bowman

| March 15, 2013 | 0 Comments
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John Bowman – fiddler, banjo picker and tenor vocalist with The Boxcars – has re-released his 2010 solo project, a bluegrass Gospel album called Family Chain. It is available now from his web site. Until coming off the road in 2006 to teach school, John was an [...]

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A ‘Clusterpluck’ for Mike Auldridge

| February 14, 2013 | 4 Comments
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It’s one thing when one of the most talented Dobro players on the planet attributes his success to Mike Auldridge. It’s something else entirely when a whole stageful of top Dobro players line up to pay tribute. Sally Van Meter had the most colorful way [...]

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Mike Auldridge tribute at The Birchmere

| January 23, 2013 | 0 Comments
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An all-star collaboration concert has been scheduled for February 12 to celebrate the life and music of Mike Auldridge, who died after a lengthy illness on Dec 28, 2012. Mike’s influence on the worlds of bluegrass and resonator guitar can scarcely be overstated. No one [...]

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RIP Mike Auldridge

| December 29, 2012 | 16 Comments
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The word “legend” gets tossed around pretty casually these days, but it does apply to Mike Auldridge, who died of cancer Saturday morning, one day short of his 74th birthday. Mike was a founding member of the Seldom Scene, a band that expanded the reach [...]

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Auldridge, Douglas, Ickes project in the works

| December 19, 2012 | 4 Comments
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Listen up, resonator guitar fans! Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas and Rob Ickes have teamed up to create a new record sure to please slide fans of every kind. It’s a “dobro trio” project, with these three masters picking together in the studio with no additional [...]

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All the Way to Bethlehem – Donna Ulisse

| December 18, 2012 | 0 Comments
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With Christmas quickly approaching, many artists have begun releasing albums full of traditional Christmas tunes. In the bluegrass world, that often consists of such classics as Christmas Time’s a Comin’ or Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, in addition to popular modern songs like White Christmas. Donna [...]

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2012 Houston Caldwell Scholarship recipient at ResoSummit

| November 13, 2012 | 0 Comments
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The 6th annual ResoSummit was held this past weekend in Nashville, bringing together 100 resonator guitarists from around the world for three days of instruction and camaraderie with an all star faculty. Students traveled to Tennesse from across the US, as well as Denmark, Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, [...]

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Mike Auldridge tribute site launched

| October 4, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Rob Ickes has created a new web site to serve as a tribute to the great resonator guitarist Mike Auldridge, who will perform this evening as part of the National Heritage Fellowships Concert in Washington, DC. Mike is among the 2012 Heritage Fellows to be honored [...]

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Rob Ickes with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra

| March 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
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Catching up with reso-monster Rob Ickes this week, we learned that he has an upcoming show as the featured guest with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, a big band of the sort that was the basis for pop music in the 1930s and ’40s. This “traditional” 17-piece group [...]

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