Bluegrass print media news

  • Lou Martin – Opus 3 Now Available

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    Richard Thompson, our enterprising British corespondent, has found a mandolin gem he recommends to eight stringers worldwide. Lou Martin, born 1944, mandolin disciple of both Bill Monroe and Ralph Rinzler, has published his third book devoted to the teaching and understanding

  • Resonance

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    Resonance is a new bimonthly newsletter for resophonic (dobro) guitar players. The July-August issue was Volume 1 #1. Issue #2 will be mailing out soon and we wanted to tell you about it. Issue #1 featured Andy Hall, of The Infamous

  • Wichita Rutherford is the Road King

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    Road King magazine has honored our friend Wichita Rutherford this month by putting his picture on the cover of their magazine. Yes, they had a good reason for putting him on the cover. Wichita, it seems, if very popular with

  • Czech bluegrass in Pittsburgh

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    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story last week about Czech bluegrass band Druha Trava, who are touring in the US and Canada through the rest of September. The Gazette's Nate Guidry interviewed Robert Krestan, who founded the group in 1991 about

  • Fiddler’s Curse

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    In 2002, Centerstream Publishing published a book by author Randy Noles entitled Orange Blossom Boys. The book explored the history of the tune by the same name and the lives of Ervin T. Rouse, Chubby Wise, and Johnny Cash. Noles has

  • Senor McGuire, Sam and Ringo

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    Here's a fun YouTube clip we found on Sam Bush's web site. Those of us of a certain age will get a kick out of seeing a pop icon like Ringo Starr speaking excitedly about artists held in high esteem

  • Fretboard Journal #7 – Earl Scruggs

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    The fall 2007 edition of Fretboard Journal is in the mail to subscribers and will soon be available at music dealers and Barnes & Noble. This edition features a cover story on banjo master Earl Scruggs. The story is appropriately titled

  • Banjo bandits ransom ill-gotten goods?

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    We posted last Friday with a story out of Folsom, CA regarding a stolen banjo and how police were closing in on the bandits after they attempted to pawn it - and were captured on video surveillance cameras. Yesterday's Sacramento Bee

  • Alison Krauss on cover of Verve

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    Verve is the print publication face of Carilion Health System. Carilion currently operates eight medical hospitals in Southwest Virginia. Verve is published quarterly with articles on living better in Southwest Virginia. It's a free publication available alongside the real estate brochures

  • Jerry Douglas shopping in NYC

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    The current (8/20) edition of The New Yorker magazine includes, as a part of its weekly Talk Of The Town section at the front of the book, a piece on dobro megastar Jerry Douglas. Daniel Menaker accompanied Douglas on a shopping