Bluegrass print media news

  • Playing the banjo is polite

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    According to USA Today, playing the banjo is polite. At least that's what I take away from a story they are currently running concerning a new biography of Emily Post. Emily Post is the author of the book Etiquette, first published

  • Randy Kohrs featured in EQ Magazine

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    Earlier this year Randy Kohrs was a guest on the Rachael Ray Show as she considered the kitchen at his recording studio to be one of The Coolest Kitchens in America. The kitchen is styled as a 1950's diner. Kohrs' Slack

  • Jerry Douglas in Wall Street Journal

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    Barry Mazor just wrote in to let us know that he has published an article about Jerry Douglas in today's Wall Street Journal. Titled Jerry Douglas, Irreplaceable Instrumentalist, the article spends time focusing on Douglas' accomplishments, but also on how his

  • The Sunny Side Of Appalachia

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    West Virginia author B. L. Dotson-Lewis has published her third book on the people and culture of the Appalachian region. The Sunny Side of Appalachia: Bluegrass from the Grassroots traces the early days of the music through first person

  • Flatpicking Guitar Magazine – free download

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    A while back we told you about the new e digital version of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. Publisher/Editor Dan Miller is now offering a free digital download of the Sept/Oct issue. The download includes both the digital magazine and the accompanying

  • Cherryholmes court country

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    Family bluegrass band Cherryholmes is making its first attempts to cross over to country radio. According to a Reuters/Billboard report, Cherryholmes is remixing - with added piano and drums - This Is My Son, one of the cuts from their forthcoming

  • Charles K. Wolfe honored by IBMA

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    Recently the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) announced the names of the two inductees to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame for 2008. In the non-performing category is the renowned author, the late Charles K. Wolfe. A self-described "cultural historian,"

  • Mitch Jayne to receive humanities award

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    Former Dillard and current fiction writer Mitch Jayne has just learned that he will be receiving the 2008 Governor's Humanities Book Award from the Missouri Humanities Council. The award is in recognition of his book, Fiddler's Ghost, published in 2007.

  • Grascals in new BMP

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    The new Bluegrass Music Profiles is out, with The Grascals on the cover. The September/October '08 issue finds Grascals Jamie Johnson and Danny Roberts interviewed about the band's latest CD, Keep On Walkin', their newest member (fiddler Jeremy Abshire), and their

  • New Bill Monroe book

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    September is very significant in the life of Bill Monroe, inasmuch as it is the month when he was born (September 13, 1911), and and the one in which he passed away (September 9, 1996). Recently, I learned of a new