After hosting the bluegrass festival at Denton FarmPark for over 40 years, bluegrass patriarch Doyle Lawson retired, and the North Carolina-based classic country band, The Malpass Brothers, are serving as new headliners, appearing daily, for the three-day music event this weekend. Karen Miller,
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Ryan Paisley, Town Councilman
We in bluegrass all know Ryan Paisley as the talented and unassuming mandolinist with Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass. He's also the son of the boss man, and the third generation heir apparent to the Paisley family music legacy. But
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From The Side of the Road… Top 10 bluegrass conspiracy theories
Esquire magazine recently published a list of the top 30 conspiracy theories prevalent in the United States. They ranged from the faked moon landing and flat earth theories to the one about Disney making Frozen as a distraction from the
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Being A Woman (Is Like Being the Sun) from Caroline Jones
After an initial bluegrass experience last summer in New Zealand, country pop singer and songwriter Caroline Jones is back with another grassy single, this time cut in Nashville with an all-female ensemble. Jones has seen her career steadily rise since the
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Bobby Powell to Nick Chandler & Delivered
Nick Chandler & Delivered have announced a new member of their touring band. Guitarist Hudson Bosworth is moving back to Ogden, UT, and Nick has brought on Bobby Powell, co-founder and guitarist/vocalist with Carolina Blue for many years. Chandler tells us
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My Favorite J.D. Crowe lick – Ron Block
This series is a feature we are running to memorialize the creative and musical legacy of the late J.D. Crowe, who we lost just before Christmas. We are calling it My Favorite Crowe Lick, and each episode will include a
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Welcome to New York from Scott Vestal and Bluegrass 2022
Pinecastle Records has released a second single from their upcoming celebration of instrumental bluegrass, Bluegrass 2022, featuring banjo master Scott Vestal with a cast of fellow super pickers. All recorded at Scott's Digital Underground Studio just outside of Nashville, this album continues
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From The Side of the Road… Dude, you smell good!
Since it has been established in the advertising world that if you can identify a niche, you can target it, it was probably inevitable that we would one day see the rise of bluegrass men's cologne. Bluegrass women's fragrances had already
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Seth Mulder & Midnight Run heading to Europe in May
Seth Mulder & Midnight Run are gearing up for their first European tour, kicking off in Belgium in a little more than two weeks. The boys will be taking their hard charging, old time bluegrass show all across the continent
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Woody Platt announces departure from Steep Canyon Rangers
Woody Platt, founding member of Steep Canyon Rangers, has announced his imminent departure from the band after 23 years. The guitarist and vocalist has recently released a single, One Last Goodbye, from an upcoming solo project which made it to #1