Mark Newton will be on XM's Bluegrass Junction tomorrow (10/25) with a World Premier of his new Rebel release, Hillbilly Hemingway. The CD won't be officially released until November 7, but Mark and producer Carl Jackson will join XM's Kyle Cantrell
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Clay Jones on WWB today
Mountain Heart guitarist Clay Jones will be online with Gracie Muldoon later today, during her Muldoon In The Afternoon show on WorldWideBluegrass.com. The show airs Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m. (eastern), and Clay will be on with Gracie
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How To Grow A Band in concert
Brance and I had the opportunity this past weekend to catch Chris Thile and his How To Grow A Band show in concert at The Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA. As the band name implies, they are on tour in
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Submit your recipes for ’07 Bluegrass Guide
We got a note from Candi Sawyer at The Bluegrass Guide, asking for recipe submissions from bluegrass bands, fans, promoters and anyone else associated with the music. She said that she has wanted to include a Bluegrass Cookbook in their
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Bill Keith on WWB
This coming Tuesday (10/24), you can join 5 string banjo innovator and entrepreneur Bill Keith as he is interviewed on WorldWideBluegrass.com by Becky Taylor. Her show, Out-Of-The-Box, is cybercast live over the internet from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. (EDT),
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Sam Bush video on YouTube
Last month, we posted about Sam Bush appearing on The Tonight Show (with Emmy Lou Harris) in support of his then newly-released CD, Laps In Seven. I just noticed that someone has made a video of Sam's Tonight Show performance available
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Opry 81st Birthday Bash
This weekend The Grand Ole Opry is celebrating their 81st Birthday, and they have some great bluegrass on both the Friday and Saturday night shows. Later tonight, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder with special guest Earl Scruggs will perform twice
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Mo Canada guitar CD released on FGM Records
Flatpicker Mo Canada has a new CD, released appropriately enough on Flatpicking Guitar Magazine's label. Entitled Grassoline, it features 12 instrumentals that highlight Canada's celebrated guitar playing, with assistance from some of the most skilled pickers in bluegrass. Tony Rice,
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Bill Foster returns to WAMU
We just got word from the folks at WAMU/BluegrassCountry.org that one of their wayward show hosts has returned to the roost. Bill Foster, who was a host on the popular Bluegrass Overnight show broadcast in the DC area from 1985
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Mike Compton videos on YouTube
Noted bluegrass mandolinist Mike Compton has two new videos up on YouTube. Both are simple productions, and feature Mike playing through a fiddle tune. The first has Mike playing a somewhat obscure Bill Monroe tune, Frog On A Lilly Pad. It