Happy New Year, friends and readers! 2024 is here at last. It's one of those special every four years in the cycle leap years: you know, the ones with the extra day in February, the summer Olympics, and a US
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Jim Rae passes
Jim Rae, a former research scientist and faculty member at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, who contributed mightily to the groundwork and experimentation that led to the Truetone line offered by Huber Banjos, died on Christmas day. He was 83
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Paris remembers from Discovering Tony Rice, by Bill Amatneek
The Bicentennial Bluegrass Band, aka, The Keith Unit, Paris, France 1977 (Tony Rice, Bill Amatneek,Bill Keith, David Grisman, Darol Anger) - photo © Patrick Ciocca Noted west coast bass player and bluegrass chronicler Bill Amatneek has made one of the vignettes
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Good news from Glen Duncan
We reported earlier this week on fiddler Glen Duncan's very scary week before Christmas, and the remarkable recovery he has made since suffering a stroke on December 20. He spent several days in the Critical Care Unit, and underwent surgery, but
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Dave Freeman passes
Dave Freeman, bluegrass and old time music archivist, record label owner, and historian, has died at 84 years of age. He passed early on Christmas morning after several years of ill health, at home, surrounded by family. He is perhaps best
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Glen Duncan recovering from a stroke
Popular Nashville fiddler, songwriter, and producer Glen Duncan is recovering from a series of strokes suffered on December 20. He is hospitalized at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center where his improvement over the past several days has been described by
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There’s A Song In There Somewhere from The Price Sisters
McCoury Music has announced February 16 as the release date for their first album with The Price Sisters, and have a third single to share from them this week as well. Between The Lines is the name of the record, and
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From The Side of the Road… bluegrass bandleader gift ideas
This is it: the home stretch of the holiday shopping season is upon us. If you're reading this when it first hit the Bluegrass Today front page on Wednesday (morning edition), there are five more shopping days until Christmas, counting
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Dale Thomas says goodbye to Hammertowne
Dale Thomas, banjo player with Kentucky's Hammertowne this past five years, has announced that he will be leaving the band at the end of this year. He came in to the band in 2019 when original banjoist Brent Pack took his
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Del does Elvis with If You Talk In Your Sleep
Del McCoury has accomplished just about anything you could want a bluegrass hero to do. For years he has taken a polished, professional, and highly entertaining show to just about every sort of audience, and throughout his career, has presented