Grasstowne will be featured on today's (6/15) edition of The Blue Plate Special on WDVX FM. The show airs at noon, eastern time, and runs for an hour. They will be performing songs from their debut CD, The Road Headin' Home,
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Chris Thile at CMT.com
The newest set of live performance and interview videos added at CMT.com's Studio 330 Sessions features Chris Thile. He performs alone, minus his crack band, The Tensions Mountain Boys. The songs included are all from his latest release, How To Grow
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Infamous Stringdusters to offer live tracks
The Infamous Stringdusters will soon start offering live show audio downloads from their MySpace page, and are asking fans to help them decide which tracks to include. You can post a comment on their MySpace blog to suggest a song, which
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Russell Moore on WWB tonight
Russell Moore, guitarist, vocalist and band leader of IIIrd Tyme Out, will be interviewed tonight (6/11) on WorldWideBluegrass.com. He'll join WWB host Jonathan Estep on his Runnin The Ridge program at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). I'm sure that Russell will talk about
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Look Out for Hackensaw Boys June 19
The Hackensaw Boys have been sneaking around the edges of several acoustic/Americana genres since their formation in Charlottesville, VA seven years ago. Their sound is raw and raucous, frenetic and unfocused, and bursting with energy and passion. It's part jug
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Kym Warner interview online
Kym Warner, hot shot mandolinist with The Greencards, was interviewed recently on Saturday Night Country, broadcast from his native Australia. He is interviewed by show host John Nutting, and speaks about the group's success of late, including finding their newest
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Hillbilly Hemingway video
Mark Newton has a music video for the title track of his latest CD, Hillbilly Hemingway. It will load and play automatically when you visit his web site. The song, written by Mike Ward, Tommy Meece and Carl Jackson, is a
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The Onion: Banjos banned in Boston?
This morning's edition of The Onion, an often hysterical and always amusing faux news web site, carried a hilarious piece entitled Banjo Player Sought In Hootenanny Spree. It's the story of a police investigation of a string of random banjo
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Wildfire site back up
In the course of a post last month about Wildfire's new lineup, we mentioned that their web site had been down while a newly redesigned site was being set up. That site is up today at www.wildfireband.com. You can get
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Audio samples up for upcoming Rounder CDs
Rounder Records has just uploaded audio samples for two new projects set for a June release. Ron Block's Doorway will hit on June 19. This is not really a bluegrass recording, but should be of interest to the many admirers of