Last month, Cindy Baucom celebrated the thousandth show of Knee Deep in Bluegrass, her syndicated radio show that is aired by over one hundred radio stations, and enjoyed by thousands of loyal bluegrassers weekly. "As I reached this milestone with
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Video Premiere: All Dressed Up from David Parmley
Recently David Parmley invited The 615 Hideaway into his home to record a music video for his current single with the label, All Dressed Up. Bluegrass fans may recall that when 615 Hideaway first launched, it was as a video platform,
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Billie Burton Daniel of WBT Briarhoppers passes
Billie Burton Daniel, who joined the North Carolina Briarhoppers in 1936 as "Little Billie Briarhopper," died on October 1, 2022, at the age of 98. Willie (Billie) Elisabeth Burton Daniel was born on March 8, 1924. She took to singing
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Paradise, A Town of Sinners & Saints – a bluegrass musical
Bluegrass lovers have known for years just how powerful film and television can be in getting the music in front of millions of people. From Foggy Mountain Breakdown in the Bonnie and Clyde movie in 1967, through Duelin' Banjos in
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Ricky Skaggs, Molly Tuttle perform as Keith Whitley goes into Country Music Hall of Fame
Ricky Skaggs and Molly Tuttle perform Tennessee Blues for the induction of Keith Whitley into the Country Music Hall of Fame (10/16/22) - photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Last night in Nashville, Keith Whitley
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The Dillards inducted into the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame
It's a long way from Mayberry, NC to Bean Blossom, IN, but that's exactly the road that Rodney Dillard has trod on his way to seeing The Dillards inducted last month into the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame, located
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Sam Bush honors his friend John Hartford with Radio John
It's hard to believe that Sam Bush is now among the venerable oldsters of contemporary bluegrass music, at least for those of us who remember him as a brash young rebel with Bluegrass Alliance or New Grass Revival in the
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From The Side of the Road… please IBMA, can I have some more?
The recent IBMA awards show received some sharp criticism in some quarters, one of those quarters being right here in Bluegrass Today. The following is not an attempt to disagree with any of that criticism, nor to pile on with
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Vince Herman on how Leftover Salmon stays fresh after 30 years
Their otherwise off-putting handle aside, Leftover Salmon has risen to the top rankings of the current crop of the progressive bluegrass elite, having helped establish the form when they initially formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1989. Over the course of
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Church Sisters return to performing
For the past decade or so, the bluegrass, gospel, and traditional country world has been enamored of The Church Sisters, fraternal twins Savannah and Sarah Church from southwestern Virginia, whose duet singing turned heads wherever they performed. Carl Jackson was