There's a tradition here of publishing at least one bluegrass haiku column per year. I've usually taken presidential election years off because even short-form poetry about leaves and clouds is controversial and divisive in these years ("Is that a reference
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Frank Wakefield remembered, by Doug McKelway
Doug McKelway and Frank Wakefield Doug McKelway is a good friend to Bluegrass Today, an experienced television newscaster, and a bluegrass banjo player. He was also a good friend to mandolin maestro Frank Wakefield, who died last week in New York.
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Frank Wakefield passes
Distinctive bluegrass mandolin stylist Frank Wakefield died on April 26 at his home in Saratoga Springs, NY. He was 89 years of age. Born Franklin Delano Wakefield on June 26, 1934 in Emory Gap in east Tennessee, his family moved to
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Just Because from The Del McCoury Band
This is a great day to be a bluegrass fan. There is so much strong new music being released today, we could post nothing but new singles, and still not hit them all. Let's go first to a perennial favorite, The
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John Cowan to True Lonesome Records – new album this year
Eddie Sanders, John Cowan, and Scott Vestal as Cowan signs with True Lonesome Celebrated bluegrass artist John Cowan, he of New Grass Revival and John Cowan Band fame, has been announced as the newest artist signed with True Lonesome Records. They
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Mason Via departs Old Crow Medicine Show – new album coming
Mason Via - photo © Michael Weintrob Young bluegrass singer and songwriter Mason Via has announced his departure from Old Crow Medicine Show, after spending the past three years touring and recording with the band. At the same time, he has
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J. D. Crowe & the New South (ROU 0044) selected by the Library of Congress
J.D. Crowe & The New South, often best known to bluegrass lovers by its catalog number, Rounder 0044, has been chosen for by the Library of Congress to be among the 25 commercial audio recordings to go into their National
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Claire Lynch sings Tom Paxton on I Give You The Morning
Though she's only semi-retired, we don't hear new music from Claire Lynch nearly enough. So it's wonderful news that Mountain Home Music is featuring her on the first single from their new collection, Bluegrass Sings Paxton, celebrating the songs of
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Good Thing Gone Wrong from Kenny & Amanda Smith
New music today from husband-and-wife grassers Kenny & Amanda Smith. For the two decades these two have been performing together, they have consistently chosen excellent material to record, and done so with artistry and virtuosity. Kenny has enjoyed a long career
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Pull The Trigger – new single from The Grascals
The Grascals - photo © Laci Mack Mountain Home Music has a new single this week for The Grascals, a bluesy love song written by Jamie Johnson and Shawn Camp called Pull The Trigger. Now back with the band after an absence