Author: John Lawless

  • Corey Hensley to Quicksilver

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    Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver has a new member. Corey Hensley has come aboard singing tenor and playing guitar. Corey is a native West Virginian who has played and sung bluegrass and Gospel music since he was a young boy. He spent

  • G2 heading our way

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    G2, our favorite young Swedish bluegrass outfit, will also be heading west to the US later this month. They will perform at the Bluegrass Legends Concert Series in Chicago on 9/26, and then on the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour

  • Vincent Black Lightning, 1952

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    A.J. Sciarrino is one of the many music lovers who reacted powerfully to The Del McCoury Band's recording of 1952 Vincent Black Lightning. The song tells a compelling story of James and Red Molly and their fascination with other, and with

  • Ricky Skaggs solo stream on iLike

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    The folks at Skaggs Family Records have created a free streaming site on iLike for the upcoming Ricky Skaggs CD, Solo - Songs My Dad Loved. You can listen to all 13 tracks in full on iLike until the release date

  • Sierra Hull on Blue Plate Special

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    Young mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull has started classes at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but is still touring with her band, Highway 111. She is adapting to having to fly to make the dates, but mixing school work

  • Speaking of Bill Monroe…

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    After posting yesterday about the anniversary of Bill Monroe's passing in 1996, we heard from Richard Crowson, a regular reader of Bluegrass Today, who is the editorial cartoonist for The Wichita Eagle newspaper in Kansas. Richard offered to share this cartoon

  • Ask Sam – and win tickets to Classical Americana

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    We've posted a number of times recently about the special Nashville Symphony concert this weekend, billed as Classical Americana. It will feature a number of prominent bluegrass and Americana artists performing with the Symphony, including Sam Bush, Alison Brown, Byron

  • Farewell to the Father

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    Bluegrass fans worldwide recall today's date (September 9) as the anniversary of Bill Monroe's passing in 1996. Just four days hence, we celebrate his birthdate in 1911. WAMU's Bluegrass Country has a week full of special programming to remember the Father

  • Gibson Brothers superfan

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    How about this for a bluegrass fan? Any band would surely be honored to be memorialized in a fan's license plate, as were The Gibson Brothers by a big fan. Too bad the state of Virginia doesn't offer a banjo plate. If