The October 2017 edition of the long-standing British glossy publication Country Music People (CMP) is noted as a Blue Grass Special edition, the first time in my memory that the magazine has been devoted to the genre. The cover features the
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ARSC recognizes Curly Seckler book
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections recently announced the winners of their 2017 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Among those winners was the much-heralded biographical work by Penny Parsons, for the book Foggy Mountain Troubadour, The Life
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Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe
Many of us in the United States often think of bluegrass as an American music, or even just a Southern music. However, as quite a few prominent bands, scholars, and even the name of our trade association will tell us,
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Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler: My Life with Jimmy Martin, the King of Bluegrass
Jimmy Martin is one of the few bluegrass artists who was probably known as much for his personality as he was for his music. His stubborn, no-holds-barred attitude and tendency to speak his mind – loudly - to whoever would
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Penny Parsons to speak at Earl Scruggs Center
Penny Parsons, author of Foggy Mountain Troubadour - The Life and Music of Curly Seckler, will speak on Friday (May 19) at The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC. She will talk about Curly's time with Flatt & Scruggs, his
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More bluegrass cartoons from Rick Cornish
Rick Cornish has shared another batch of his bluegrass cartoons, illustrate by Donna Miklica, from their new book, Bluegrass - Funnier Than It Sounds. See if you pick up a theme...Rick and Donna's book, with 160 pages of bluegrass humor, can
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Brady Plays The Fiddle by Melissa Auell
Melissa Auell is a banjo-playing mom in Colorado, who decided to take on the problem of not finding children's books about bluegrass music herself. Of course, it helps that she's a professional writer and illustrator already, with the necessary skills
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Bluegrass: Funnier Than It Sounds available
Rick Cornish's book of bluegrass-themed cartoons, Bluegrass: Funnier Than It Sounds, is now available for sale. It contains 160 pages of clever illustrations sure to delight lovers and pickers of the music Bill Monroe left us. Long a fixture on the
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John Deere visits The Crooked Road
Virginia's Crooked Road, the state's successful effort to use traditional mountain music as a tourist draw for dozens of southwest Virginia communities, is getting a nice boost from an unexpected place. The Furrow, a publication of the John Deere Company which
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Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon
Banjo aficionados and Earl Scruggs devotees, in particular, will be enthused, nay, excited, by the news of a forthcoming book about the banjo innovator, Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Earl Scruggs’s career as a banjo player