Bluegrass print media news

Working Girl Blues: The Life And Music Of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named the winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded

Steve Martin graces the cover of the October issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, being mailed to subscribers this week. The hilarious image is one that Martin had considered for the cover of his new banjo CD, The Crow. Inside the magazine is

I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir, by Gene Lowinger Gene Lowinger, a New Jersey boy by birth, was the first northerner to play the fiddle for Bill Monroe. He first played with Monroe in 1964, filling in on shows

The Denver Post has weighed in on the official debut of Chris Thile's Mandolin Concerto withthe Colorado Symphony on Thursday night (9/17). Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post Fine Arts Critic, was enthusiast about the piece, and hailed Thile as "up-and-coming classical composer

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out grace the cover of the latest (Sept/Oct) issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles. Russell is also the subject of a feature interview, where he discusses the group's latest eponymous CD, his co-writing, how he spends his

Last week we had news of a new book of fiction based on the popular Del McCoury hit, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning. Reading Mandolin Cafe this morning, we learned of another new novel with a bluegrass theme. Valentine's Fall is the

A.J. Sciarrino is one of the many music lovers who reacted powerfully to The Del McCoury Band's recording of 1952 Vincent Black Lightning. The song tells a compelling story of James and Red Molly and their fascination with other, and with

Fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor has been showing up everywhere of late. He is on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Strings Magazine, and received a profile in the September 7 edition of The New Yorker's Talk Of The Town

The unpleasant infighting among the children of Jimmy Martin over his estate, an open secret for years within the bluegrass community, has hit the mainstream media. The Tennessean, Nashville's hometown newspaper, has published a story on the ongoing legal battle over

Here is another Light In The Window post from Richard F. Thompson. A variation of this piece has been published in British Bluegrass News. Light In The Window - A series of rambles about CDs by bluegrassmercury It has been a long