Media

  • IBMA talks about the Benjamins

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    The International Bluegrass Music Association has a couple bits of news to announce this week, both with a focus on cold hard cash. They have an online sales seminar scheduled for April 19, designed to help anyone whose work in the

  • Alison Krauss in Elle

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    She's everywhere! Alison Krauss, that is. With yesterday's long-awaited release of Paper Airplane, her first full project with Union Station since Lonely Runs Both Ways in 2004, the music media is aflutter with Alison sightings. One place we were surprised to see

  • Del McCoury and Preservation Hall

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    McCoury Music has released a new CD featuring bluegrass superstars the Del McCoury Band and New Orleans' jazz traditionalists, Preservation Hall Jazz Band. American Legacies puts these two legendary ensembles together for 12 tunes that blend bluegrass and New Orleans jazz,

  • How To Grow A Band debuts this week

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    This Friday, April 15, will mark the official premiere of How To Grow A Band, the documentary film by Mark Meatto that followed Chris Thile and Punch Brothers across the US and the UK over the past two years. It

  • NewFound Road – If You’ll Pretend

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    A debut video from NewFound Road's upcoming Rounder album, Live At The Down Home, has been released online. This project was - you guessed it - recorded live at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN on December 4, 2010. It

  • Chris Martin on the D-45

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    Chris Martin (CF Martin IV) just posted a video about the return of the model D-45 to the Martin catalog, in the form of the D-45 Authentic 1942. It's quite a story, which includes an admission that when Martin decided to

  • Cumberland River on Justified tonight

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    We've posted a few times about the FX original program Justified, and the bluegrass-tinged music they use during the show's soundtrack. It started with Rench, a hip hop artist who (as Ganstagrass) incorporates bluegrass elements in his music beds. He landed

  • Follow Me Down from Sarah Jarosz in May

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    Sugar Hill Records has announced May 17 as the release date for Sarah Jarosz's second album, Follow Me Down. This talented young singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist will see her new CD hit just as she completes her second year of studies

  • Doyle on Blue Plate Special

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    Doyle Lawson will be bringing the music from his new Drive Time CD to Knoxville's WDVX today at noon. He and the members of Quicksilver will perform live on the April 6 edition of Blue Plate Special. Philly rockers The Great

  • Blow Out the Candle, Laura

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    The Bankester Family is hard at work on their third CD, and guitarist and proud papa Phil Bankester has produced a video about the first single. I'll let Phil tell the tale... Very early on in the planning for this album,