As we have reported several times, the 2020 World of Bluegrass will take on a very different character than what we are all used to seeing. Because of the shutdown restrictions in North Carolina, the IBMA was forced to cancel
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The Song That I Call Home video from Stephen Mougin
Last Friday saw the release of the fourth single from Stephen Mougin's upcoming Ordinary Soul album, along with a music video for the track, The Song That I Call Home. It's one that Mougin wrote with Erin McDermott about the strangeness felt sometimes
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Randy Wood: The Lore of the Luthier by Daniel Wile
Who is the most important in music? The singer, the songwriter or the luthier? All are equally so in this day and age, are they not? Perhaps in terms of books the last group isn’t as well represented as the others.
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Video Premiere: My Kind Of Town from Special Consensus
Compass Records has today released a new music video from Special Consensus, taken from their current, Chicago-themed album, Chicago Barn Dance. All the songs contained therein are about, or have some connection to, the hometown of founder and bandleader, Greg
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Introducing Wayne’s World of Mandolin
One positive side of quarantining is time to work on new projects, and that is what Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out’s Wayne Benson has been doing. He just introduced his own YouTube channel, Wayne’s World of Mandolin. “A few years
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Pigs – animated lyric video from Wood & Wire
Austin alt-grassers Wood & Wire have come up with a clever idea to promote their new single, Pigs, a modern day protest number set to a bluegrass beat. Pigs was written by guitarist Tony Kamel with Silas Lowe about the tendency
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Much More Than I Asked For video from King James Boys
Morning Glory Music has released a new music video from the King James Boys, this time featuring bass player and reso-guitarist Cole Spencer on the lead vocal. It's for one of the tracks on their current Living On A Promise album, called
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99 Year Blues video from Rock Hearts
Rock Hearts have been playing bluegrass professionally in the New England region this past seven years, formed when five seasoned players got together out of love for the music. They take their name from a classic late '50s Jimmy Martin
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Net Radio Dogs program picked up by Fishnet Syndication
Rick Dollar, host of the weekly, one hour radio show Net Radio Dogs, has announced an agreement with Fishnet Syndication to offer the program to radio station all across the United States. Dollar has been in radio for more than twenty
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Sycamore Gap video from The Often Herd
British newgrassers The Often Herd have been doing what pretty much all musical artists have been doing during the shutdown: writing new music and making videos when the opportunity arises. These four lads from the north of England have their