Author: John Lawless

  • Nathan Stanley – My Kind of Country

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    Nathan Stanley, grandson of Ralph Stanley and member of his Clinch Mountain Boys, has released a new CD, My Kind of Country. It serves as a showcase for Nathan's voice and musical stylings as he prepares a move into traditional country

  • Fleck, Meyer, Hussain to tour this spring

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    Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer will once again be touring in 2011 with Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain. The trio released a collaborative project in 2009, The Melody Of Rhythm, which is centered around a triple concerto by that name written by

  • Ricky Skaggs autobiography in the works

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    Ricky Skaggs' connection to Ralph Stanley is well-documented, from his having worked as a Clinch Mountain Boy in the early 1970s to making a number Stanley songs into country hits in the late 1980s when Skaggs was a Nashville country

  • Grascals on Fox & Friends

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    The Grascals stopped by the Fox & Friends set on Sunday morning to perform music from their new Cracker Barrel CD, The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin. The album features Nashville's favorite bluegrass group in collaboration

  • Sierra Hull at The Kennedy Center

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    Sierra Hull & Highway 111 was featured in last night's Concerts For Young People By Young People series at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The show was also cybercast live and video of the performance can be seen now

  • Two more Rebel classics from the vault

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    Rebel Records has two new digital re-issues, bringing long-unavailable bluegrass LPs back into the catalog for MP3 purchase. These two are from Rebel's sister company, County Records: a pair of 1968 albums from The Coon Creek Girls, and Kenny Baker

  • Jessie Baker jumps to Highway 111

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    Jessie Baker has been announced as the new banjo player with Sierra Hull & Highway 111. Baker, 19 years old, had been a member of Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper since the fall of 2008 and will start with Sierra in

  • Steep Canyon Rangers celebrate 10 years

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    Steep Canyon Rangers will mark their 10th Anniversary tomorrow evening (1/21) with a special concert at the Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club near their home in Asheville, NC. Joining them in celebrating this milestone will be artists from

  • Paper Airplane takes off April 12

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    Rounder Records has announced April 12 as the release date for Paper Airplane, the long-anticipated new album from Alison Krauss & Union Station. This will be the first band project since 2004, and the first since Alison's genre-bending, mega-hit album