Topic Records has announced a September 29 release for an interesting new project that explores the convergence of British folk music and that of the Appalachian mountains of the southeastern US. It is a joint effort from a pair of
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A chat with Tim O’Brien… about life, learning, music, and marriage
Given his extensive backstory and defining role in the advent of modern bluegrass, it would be hard to confine Tim O'Brien to any particular niche. His early efforts alongside his older sister, Mollie O'Brien, and essential role as a member
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Cup of Sugar – Tim O’Brien
One of the foremost figures within current bluegrass realms, Tim O'Brien holds true to his standing with what may well be his best effort yet. Personable and pleasing, it finds humor, happiness, and happenstance embossed in each of these offerings,
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Video Premiere: Bear from Tim O’Brien
Anyone who's followed the career of Tim O'Brien knows that he has a terrific sense of humor. From the earliest days of Hot Rize, when most of us first encountered Tim, we were treated to his extra dry wit, both
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Danny Boy video from Danny Burns, with Tim O’Brien
Irish-born bluegrass and Americana vocalist Danny Burns has chosen the definitive Irish ballad, Danny Boy, for the final single from his upcoming Bonfire Music Group album, Promised Land. We've likely all heard dozens of versions of this timeless classic, with lyrics
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Little Lamb Little Lamb video from Tim O’Brien
Here's another special song, just in time for Easter. This one's from Tim O'Brien, recorded with his touring band, called Little Lamb Little Lamb. Tim uses the metaphor of a new born lamb to discuss the contrasts between the frolics of
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Far Away Again from Cory Walker (with Tim O’Brien)
Mountain Fever Records has release a debut single today from their upcoming project with banjoist Cory Walker. The album is entitled School Project, which those who known Cory from his active social media presence will recognize as a common theme,
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Tim O’Brien talks bluegrass, Hot Rize, and more
Tim O'Brien can be credited with helping to define bluegrass within the realms of modern music by bringing popularity to a genre that reaches well beyond the hollers and hills of Appalachia, to the vaster realms spawned by its immediate
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Traveler: The Musical Odyssey of Tim O’Brien – new book
Hot off the presses this month (September 2022) is the biography, Traveler: The Musical Odyssey of Tim O'Brien by award-winning biographer Bobbie Malone and premier country music historian Bill C. Malone. For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer,
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Back In Baltimore from Ned Luberecki, featuring Tim O’Brien
Ned Luberecki has been a familiar face - and voice - in the bluegrass world for many years now. We see him on stage on banjo with the Becky Buller Band; we hear him as a radio personality on SiriusXM's