This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. Louisa Branscomb is an acclaimed songwriter and pioneer in bluegrass music, having been referred
Author: Richard Thompson
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Working Girl Blues: It’s a winner
Working Girl Blues: The Life And Music Of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named the winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded
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Book review – I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir
I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir, by Gene Lowinger Gene Lowinger, a New Jersey boy by birth, was the first northerner to play the fiddle for Bill Monroe. He first played with Monroe in 1964, filling in on shows
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Songwriter Profile – Chris Stuart
This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Chris Stuart plays guitar and leads his own band, Backcountry,
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Live EP from Toy Hearts
Toy Hearts, surely one of Britain's most aggressive young bluegrass bands, leaves today for a month in the US. The group is based on a family trio, Stewart Johnson and his two daughters, Hannah and Sophia. They will be playing at
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Light In The Window IV
Here is another Light In The Window post from Richard F. Thompson. A variation of this piece has been published in British Bluegrass News. Light In The Window - A series of rambles about CDs by bluegrassmercury It has been a long
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Mike Seeger remembered
Mike Seeger: August 15, 1933 - August 7, 2009 Musician, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, collector, teacher, advocate, record engineer and producer, field-recordist, archivist, folklorist, historian and cultural scholar. Adjectives abound; individually or collectively they cannot begin to describe the influence Mike Seeger
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Yet another forthcoming book
A bit of research has revealed a book about bluegrass music that we missed from our recent bulletin. I Hear a Voice Calling - A Bluegrass Memoir is Gene Lowinger's photo journal that captures Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys
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Light In The Window III
Here is another Light In The Window post from Richard F. Thompson. A variation of this piece has been published in British Bluegrass News. A fourth installment will be along in a week or so. Light In The Window - A series
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Forthcoming books…
Recently we have commented at length about the forthcoming Ralph Stanley autobiography. We though that you might be interested in some other bluegrass-related reading matter due for publication in the near future. A book about Tony Rice is scheduled to be released