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Bluegrass Today – Self Rising Flour
Named after one of Martha White's most iconic products, Finnish bluegrass band Self Rising Flour has become well regarded within their country, as well as other Nordic territories where they've performed. Their sophomore effort, Bluegrass Today, combines their brand of hardcore traditional bluegrass with inventive, catchy lyrics, all of which were penned
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From The Side of the Road… post-Thanksgiving bluegrass shopping ideas
We’ve just made it through Thanksgiving, and I chose the phrase "made it through" deliberately. Let's be honest, for all people's happy and thankful social media posts ("I'm so thankful for my kitty Snooky-wookums, and the humans in my family are pretty good, too!"), we all know this is a
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How Many Kings video from Chosen Road with Emily Ann Roberts
For their 2024 Christmas single on Thoroughbred Records, bluegrass gospel stalwarts Chosen Road have chosen How Many Kings, a song written by Jason Germain and Marc Martel, and originally recorded by their band, downhere, in 2009. Also featured on the track, and in their new music video, is country singer Emily
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Heady Wax Fiends to reissue Manzanita on vinyl
The Heady Wax Fiends Record Club and Real Gone Music have announced the latest in their audiophile vinyl resissues, the bluegrass classic Manzanita, from The Tony Rice Unit in 1979. This record hit like an earthquake when it was first released on Rounder, combining Rice at his zenith on both guitar
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Danny Stewart takes over manufacture of The Mighty D-Tuner
Banjo players have long sought the "perfect" D-tuners, the devices that allow them to effect the slurring, or "detuning" sound popularized by Earl Scruggs in such tunes as Flint Hill Special, Earl's Breakdown, and Randy Lynn Rag. Initially, Earl achieved this sound by simply lowering and immediately re-raising the pitch of
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Russell Moore to take guitar spot with Alison Krauss & Union Station
One thing we all learn in the bluegrass world is the inevitability of change. Our favorite bands switch personnel, and even acts that seem perfect are able to revise and develop in new ways that may surprise you at first, but in so doing become even more ideal than before. Such
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Between The Coal Mines from Blue Lass
Britain's Blue Lass, a bluegrass trio using clawhammer banjo and three part harmony to present original music, has a single from their debut EP, Skylines...
Over $11,000 raised at BANDing Together flood benefit show
Blue Debut at the BANDing Together benefit concert in Prestonsburg, KY - photo © Tim Batts On November 23, 2024, the stage was set for an...
The Word from Teddy Barneycastle
Some of the holiday bluegrass music we are treated with around Christmas time is light and fluffy - feel good songs about Santa and spending...
Clay Hess to The Seldom Scene
With the recent retirement of guitarist/vocalist Dudley Connell after nearly three decades, The Seldom Scene had big shoes to fill. But for a band whose...
Our Blue Grass Favorites – The Lonesome Town Painters
There's something to be said for authenticity, and even though The Lonesome Town Painters hail from Vancouver British Columbia, thousands of miles from Appalachia and the...
Billy Strings video from The Tonight Show
Here's the video of Billy Strings, performing last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. As he typically does on television, Billy played a solid...
