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Tag: Tim O’Brien
Blue Yodel #10 – Quantum Lyrics
I don’t know. Maybe I’ve been watching too much of the Brian Greene PBS series The Fabric of the Cosmos lately. It’s fascinating—things blow up and there’s talk about black holes and eleven dimensions. What I’ve learned is that somewhere there’s a dimension where I [...]
More Kenny Baker tribute from Grey Fox
Here is another video from Grey Fox, again with a Kenny Baker tribute theme. This time, we have Tim O’Brien and Chris Thile offering up a twin mandolin version of Bill Monroe’s Jerusalem Ridge, long associated with Baker for his definitive recording of it on [...]
Kenny Baker Memorial Orchestra at Grey Fox
To honor the life and music of the great Kenny Baker, Matt Glaser organized a special tribute at the Grey Fox Festival earlier this month. Billed as the Kenny Baker Grey Fox Memorial Orchestra, it featured what appears to be nine fiddlers performing a medley [...]
Moody Bluegrass Two…Much Love
June 21 has been announced as the official release date for a second set of bluegrass covers of classic songs from legendary 1960’s-70’s British pop-rockers The Moody Blues. The first, Moody Bluegrass, hit in 2004, combining the chart hits from the album’s namesakes with a [...]
Merlefest Day 4
Here’s a day 4 report on Merlefest 2011 from Georgia Lowrance, delayed by poor connectivity on Sunday. She provided us daily updates, with photos, from her position on the ground in Wilkesboro last weekend. The bulk of the photos in this post were taken by [...]
New Hot Rize audio
We posted back in August about the upcoming Hot Rize tour this fall, the band’s first since the passing of original guitarist Charles Sawtelle in 1999. They will spend 10 days on the road, hitting clubs and theaters across the US starting on October 28, [...]
Martins and Mamas
This post is a contribution from Grace Van’t Hof, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. She will report about her experiences at IBMA as she tries to promote her group, Della Mae. Let me preface this post by saying that I am a huge fan [...]
Hot Rize reunion tour 2010
Hot Rize hits the road again this fall for their first US tour in more than 10 years. They have a string of dates scheduled later this year with original members Pete Wernick on banjo, Tim O’Brien on mandolin/fiddle and Nick Forster on bass, along [...]
Rising Sun Melodies – Ola Belle Reed
The name Ola Belle Reed may not be terribly familiar to younger fans of bluegrass and old time music – unless they are inclined to peruse liner notes and songwriter credits on their favorite recordings. Many of her songs have been covered by popular modern [...]
Tim O’Brien CD due in July
Look for a new release from Tim O’Brien on July 13, an opportune date as this will mark the 13th solo project since his first in 1984. The new album is fully self-produced, and will be on Tim’s Howdy Skies Records. Entitled Chicken & Egg, [...]
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