Jon Glik, 56, one of bluegrass music's top fiddlers, is fit enough able to play again after a year where he almost died, according to a report on Baltimore's Eyewitness News a few days ago. Regular readers will recall our previous
Author: Richard Thompson
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Joe Ross – Bluegrass Alphabet
Oregon based multi-instrumentalist, Joe Ross has recently announced the release of a third album in as many years. Following Festival Time Again (released in 2006) and Spirit of St. Louis (2007) albums, both featuring all-original songs, is a new CD entitled,
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Hazel Dickens in the West Virginia Music Hall Of Fame
Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, put together this report on an important event we missed last fall. In November the legendary folk/bluegrass singer, songwriter and activist Hazel Dickens was honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the West Virginia
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Review: James Alan Shelton – Walking Down The Line
Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this review of a project he found especially worthy. When cross-pick guitar expert and Clinch Mountain Boy James Alan Shelton was selecting the songs and tunes for this, his ninth solo CD, Walking Down
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Curly Seckler celebrated on The Pickin Porch Show
Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, tells us of Curly Seckler Day in Marion, VA. I have just had a note passed to me by Penny Parsons, manager/friend and biographer to bluegrass veteran Curly Seckler. On Sunday, January 6 The Pickin' Porch
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Earl Scruggs to receive lifetime Grammy Award
Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, couples the news of this long-overdue recognition with a brief recap of Earl Scruggs' distinguished career in bluegrass. Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, who celebrated his 84th birthday on Sunday, will receive a 2008 Grammy Award
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Sunday Morning Revelations – Thank You Lord
This installment of Sunday Morning Revelations comes from our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson. We will offer reviews of Gospel bluegrass releases on Sunday's from time to time. Thank You Lord is Hickory Hill's first all-Gospel recording. It actually dates back
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Sunday Morning Revelations: Kneel And Pray
This initial installment of Sunday Morning Revelations comes from our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson. We will offer reviews of Gospel bluegrass releases on Sunday's from time to time. Everybody is familiar with Mickey Harris and his 'day job' as the
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American Folk & Country Music Festival
Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this news. Forty years before the 'O Brother/Down From The Mountain' tour, an earlier group of like-minded musicians took some Appalachian music on the road. Thankfully, some of the music performed by the small
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Hot off the presses
Dennis Satterlee, the author of the Red Allen biography Teardrops In My Eyes, has written to share some good news for Allen fans eager to get their hands on the book, though tempered with some sad news as well. It seems