The 2015 Houston Caldwell Scholarship to Rob Ickes' 9th annual ResoSummit, held November 12-15 in Nashville, went to 15-year-old Adam Birkeland from Duluth, MN. Each year Rob and his ResoSummit co-produer Betty Wheeler, choose a young picker of special merit to attend the weekend
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Rob Ickes leaving Blue Highway
The streak is over! For 21 years Blue Highway held the distinction of holding together with its original, founding members. Despite a brief exit by Jason Burleson, who returned not long after, the same five talented musicians have remained with the group
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Three new Rob Ickes instructional videos
Dobro wizard Rob Ickes has not one, not two, but three new instructional videos offered for sale from his web site. Each covers a specific aspect of his award-winning style, and is offered for $25. Volume 1 is titled Slower Tempo Songs and
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Friday video at World of Bluegrass 2015
Here's a group of videos captured at various venues here at Wide Open Bluegrass 2015 on Friday. Bud's Collective in the Marriott Hotel In Jayme Stone's Lomax Project, he researched the tunes and songs from Alan Lomax's catalogs and brought them back
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Trey Hensley & Rob Ickes video from The Down Home
Trey Hensley & Rob Ickes have posted this video from their performance last Friday at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN. It finds them laying down a scorching version of Jimmy Martin's Freeborn Man, which has served as a flatpicking
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Places I’ve Been – Gold Heart
Had you been thinking, "I wonder what happened to Gold Heart?" I know I had when I ran into them at the IBMA's World Of Bluegrass convention last September in Raleigh. Tori Gold, the eldest of the three singing Gold sisters
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My Way Is the Highway video from Rob & Trey
To celebrate the release of their new Compass Records album, Before The Sun Goes Down, Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley have created a live performance video for CMT Edge. It finds the somewhat unlikely duo running through one of Trey's
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Rob and Trey play the blues
To help promote their new album, Before The Sun Goes Down, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley have released a music video for one of the tracks, Pride and Joy. The song is a cover of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature number,
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Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley in January ’15
Compass Records has announced January 13, 2015 as the release date for Before The Sun Goes Down, the upcoming CD from Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. It's a fun album, that mixes hard driving bluegrass with classic country based around Trey's
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Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley
Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley joined us during the World of Bluegrass convention to talk about their upcoming album together, Before The Sun Goes Down, which offers a mix of traditional bluegrass and country music. The pair have a show