Author: Richard Thompson

  • New Dailey & Vincent CD in March 2009

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    Following comment by the duo on WAMU's Katy Daley show last week comes confirmation today that Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have a second album in the pipeline for next year.The IBMA Entertainers of the Year Dailey & Vincent have

  • New bass player for NewFound Road

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    Rounder Records has announced that there has been a personnel change within the ranks of NewFound Road. Jamey Booher, formerly of Grasstowne and The Booher Family, is replacing Randy Barnes on bass in the contemporary bluegrass quartet. A native of Johnson City,

  • Bluegrass Now Ceases Publication

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    We have learned that Bluegrass Now will cease publication with the December edition. The state of the economy has had a considerable effect on the music business and Bluegrass Now had already felt the impact earlier, when it was decided that

  • Grammy nominations update

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    I don't know whether you noticed, but in the list of 2009 Grammy nominations for the Bluegrass Album of the Year award is an obscure CD featuring the Del McCoury Band live. The 18 track album Live At The 2008 New

  • New CD from Frank Wakefield

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    The good folk at Patuxent Music are applying the finishing touches to what the liner notes describe as the first all-instrumental project from Frank Wakefield. Ownself Blues (Patuxent CD-182) is a collection of 13 tunes of which Wakefield wrote 11. The

  • IBMA Travelogue # 12

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    Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention. It was his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his

  • IBMA Travelogue # 11

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    Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention. It was his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his

  • IBMA Travelogue # 10

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    Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention. It was his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his

  • IBMA Travelogue # 9

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    Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention. It was his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his