Compass Records has created a nice introduction to the upcoming Special Consensus album, Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver, due later this month. It's a video shot in their Nashville studio that mixes music performance clips with band interviews
Rob Ickes
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Tony Rice benefits in CT and TN
Over this next few weeks, two benefit concerts will be held to raise funds for The Tony Rice Foundation, which is collecting donations to assist Tony while he seeks to recover from both his arm and voice problems. Over $60,000
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Scheerhorn unveils new Rob Ickes guitar
Tim Scheerhorn and Rob Ickes have announced a new resonator guitar, designed by Tim to Rob's specs, and manufactured in the US by National Reso-Phonic Guitars. It is made using Scheerhorn's L-body design, built larger than the guitar dreadnaught profile for greater
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Photos, video from Scruggs Center opening
Our Special Bluegrass Correspondent captured some images and video from the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center on January 11.
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Earl Scruggs Center opens in a deluge
Over one thousand fans of the five-string gathered in Shelby, North Carolina on Saturday, January 11, 2014 to experience the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center. Despite pouring rain that moved several events that had been scheduled to take
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ResoSummit announces 2013 scholarship winner
Rob Ickes' 7th Annual ResoSummit convenes later this afternoon in Nashville, with more than 100 resonator slide guitarists from all over the world congregating to study with top practitioners of the instrument. With the start of festivities comes the announcement of this year's
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Alan Jackson et al on Letterman
If you missed Alan Jackson and his all-star band last night on The Late Show with David Letterman - or just want to watch it again - the video is embedded below. He performed Blacktop from his current release, The Bluegrass
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Alan Jackson takes his bluegrass to New York City
New York City? That's right, folks. Alan Jackson is traveling to New York with his Bluegrass Album band to perform music from his new record at a concert tonight at Carnegie Hall. Assisting will be the same bluegrass all-stars who tracked
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Joe Mullins and Junior Sisk reunite for Hall Of Fame Bluegrass
As the bluegrass genre grows to include more and more offshoots in the mind of the average consumer, traditionalists can be found grousing about the dilution of the art form, or the importance of maintaing definitions and categories. But while
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Alan Jackson does The Station Inn
Alan Jackson at The Station Inn (8/28/13) - photo by Colin Peterson Last night, I had one of Nashville's hottest passes in hand – a ticket to see country superstar Alan Jackson make his debut bluegrass music performance at the Station