This post is a contribution from David McCarty, a music journalist, songwriter and musician who writes regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Flatpicking Guitar magazines, and performs as a member of The Hot Club of Naptown. Your comments are welcome -
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Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder to Tour UK
This post comes from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard F. Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
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Reissue Country Gentlemen CD not precisely what it seems
This post comes from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard F. Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Smithsonian Folkways has released Going
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Charles Lindbergh – the Spirit of St. Louis and Bluegrass Music
This post comes from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Bluegrass singer/songwriter Joe Ross contacted me
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Report on Wade Mainer’s 100th Birthday Party
This post comes from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Recently we reported on the then
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Leadership Music Digital Summit – an attendee’s impressions
A fews weeks ago, we posted some information about the 3rd annual Leadership Music Digital Summit, held in Nashville on April 24. Our friend Archie Warnock, who attended the summit, agreed to share his impressions of the event with our
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Jayme Stone’s Banjo Travelogue – part 4
In a previous post, we told of Canadian banjo picker Jayme Stone's journey through West Africa in preparation for an upcoming CD based on African banjo music. He has agreed to send us a series of updates from Africa -
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Paul Williams to release 7th Rebel CD
Here's another post from our all-the-more regular correspondent, Richard Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. The latest CD from bluegrass
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Instruments for New Orleans
The following is a contribution from Julie Melrose, a music journalist and author in New England. She shares with us her discovery of the Tipitina's Co-op and hopes that the bluegrass community might be inclined to support their efforts as
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Wade Mainer celebrates his 100th birthday
Here's another post from our all-the-more regular correspondent, Richard Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Old time music pioneer Wade