Bob Loyce Moore, who passed away on September 22, 2021, was a charter member of Nashville's original studio A-Team, with over 17,000 documented recording sessions. He played upright bass for top country music acts such as Patsy Cline, Sammi Smith,
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Appalachian Hymns – Chosen Road
Although Chosen Road has been performing and ministering together for nearly twelve years, they have found their most recent success after partnering with Song Garden Music Group and releasing Appalachian Worship last year, which found immediate success on Billboard’s Top
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2021 Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival report
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers at the 2021 Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival - photo by Michael Gabbard Friday morning at the Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival kicked off with a bang. The Doug Eyink Alternative Strings Scholarship fundraising breakfast was a
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From The Side of the Road… Mr. Bluegrass Manners takes your tough questions
Mr. Bluegrass Manners has had an unusually busy fall, or maybe it's a normally busy fall, but because of the sharp contrast with the fall of 2020, it just seems unusual. In the course of relearning how to multi-task (while
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New November from Thomas Cassell
Young mandolinist, composer, and vocalist Thomas Cassell has made quite an impression on the professional bluegrass world in the past few years. Since graduating from the bluegrass program at ETSU, he has performed with Billy Strings, The Bryan Sutton Band, Jim
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Béla Fleck Bluegrass Heart Gold Tone banjo on its way
For years banjo players have drooled over Béla Fleck's 1937 RB-75 conversion banjo, the one that he has played since 1982. It's a beautiful instrument, and helped cement his sound into every banjo picker's brain through his landmark 1988 release,
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Riverbend signs with EMG, releases first single
Engelhardt Music Group in Nashville has announced the signing of Riverbend, a traditional bluegrass band from St Louis who hew to the high lonesome sound that gave the music its early definition. The quintet has been playing together this past six
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Brian Swenk resurrects Rockwood Booking Agency
Brian Paul Swenk, a veteran of both the performance and artist representation sides of the bluegrass music world, has reopened his boutique shop, Rockwood Booking Agency. For many years Brian was the banjo player with Big Daddy Love, an alternative, jamgrass
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Tennessee Moon – new single from Mark Whitt
Ohio/Kentucky bluegrass singer and songwriter, Mark Whitt, has a new album of his music called Tennessee Moon, with the title track now available as a single. The album was produced by Clay Hess, and recorded in his Ohio studio. Mark lays
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Nothing In The World To Do from Jesse Smathers
Jesse Smathers, guitarist and tenor vocalist with Lonesome River Band, has announced a new self-titled solo project, with a new single out today for everyone to get a taste. Folks in the Virginia/Carolina region have known of this young artist's talent