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Musical guests today (10/11) on WDVX's Blue Plate Special will be The Lovell Sisters. These three young women are already experienced performers, though still in their teens or early twenties. Megan plays resophonic guitar, Rebecca mandolin, and Jessica fiddle and

Claire Lynch's latest Rounder release, Crowd Favorites, is out this week. As we mentioned in an earlier post, the CD includes both previously-released tracks from her prior Rounder projects, and four re-recorded songs from her Front Porch String Band days. There

Good morning from Nashville. Brance and I just had a chance to be a part of radio history. Katy Daley, whose morning bluegrass show is broadcast each morning on both BluegrassCountry.org and WAMU HD-2, is here at IBMA doing the show

Dobro master Mike Auldridge and Infamous Stringdusters bass man Travis Book share their insights in the two most recent editions of Musicians Tips on BluegrassCountry.org. Travis talks about taking bass solos, while Mike's tips focus on questions of sound reinforcement. Previous

Today's (9/30) edition of The Chicago Sun-Times has an interview with Merle Haggard, primarily about his upcoming CD release, The Bluegrass Sessions, due out this coming Tuesday (10/2) on McCoury Music. In the interview, the Sun-Times' Dave Hoekstra talks with the

We just got a note from Jamie Dailey to say that their official band web site is now up and operational at www.daileyvincent.com. You can check their performance schedule, read biographical information on each of the band members and find out

In their ongoing effort to keep their back catalog alive online, Rebel/County Records has reissued two more classic LPs as download-only releases. The Blue Sky Boys are such well-established icons in early country music that even those with little or no

Today at noon, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones will give a live radio performance on Blue Plate Special, broadcast on WDVX 89.9 FM in Knoxville, TN. The show will also be simulcast online via a web audio stream, but is

Our friends at ukbluegrass.com have recently published a lengthy piece on guitarist, singer and songwriter John Lowell. John will be on the faculty of the 2008 Sore Fingers bluegrass camp in England, where he will teach songwriting. The article covers a

Jonathan James sent us a note about a new bluegrass radio show he has launched in the Carrboro/Chapel Hill, NC market. His show is called The High Lonesome Radio Hour and airs each Saturday from 3:00-4:00 p.m. (ET) on WCOM-FM