The latest issue of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine is now mailing to subscribers. This issue is Volume 11, Number 4 - May/June 2007. The cover story this time around is The Pioneers of Flatpicking. The pioneers of bluegrass guitar covered in
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Will Congress save internet radio?
We've talked at length on Bluegrass Today about the new CRB ruling that will increase the royalty rates for internet radio later this month. Now it seems that Congress has decided to get involved. Late last month a bill was introduced
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Nashville All Stars on WDVX Friday
There will be a special bluegrass performance on this Friday's (5/11) edition of The Blue Plate Special, at noon on WDVX. The show will feature a live (in-studio) set with Butch Baldassari (mandolin), Barbara Lamb (fiddle), Kathy Chiavola (guitar/vocal) and
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Carrie Hassler videos online
Rural Rhythm Records has posted two music video performances and a video bio from Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain, featuring special guest Jim VanCleve on fiddle. The videos (also available on YouTube) are for two tracks from her self-titled debut CD,
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CMT feature on The Station Inn
Here's an interesting story that I missed while I was out of town last week. CMT.com put up a nice feature last Wednesday on Nashville's long-time bluegrass headquarters, The Station Inn. Since the club first began promoting bluegrass shows in the
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Internet radio discussion on WAMU
We have posted a number of times in the past few months about the new royalty rates for Internet radio established by the US Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates represent a dramatic increase in the royalties owed to both
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Two new digital reissues from Rebel
Rebel Records has reissued two more bluegrass classics as download only releases, available only from eMusic and iTunes. Both were originally released on LP in the early-to-mid 1970s. Folks these days know Ricky Skaggs as a successful band leader, vocalist and
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Special Consensus video on Woodsongs
The video is now up of the recent appearance by Special Consensus on Michael Jonathan's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. Special C shared the bill with folk/country singer Elizabeth Cook, and performed songs from their upcoming Pinecastle CD, The Trail
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Radio Bluegrass International
The International Bluegrass Music Museum quietly launched a new internet radio station the first of this month, but now they are making some noise about it. RBI (Radio Bluegrass International), as it is called, is a non-commercial, 24-hour streaming internet broadcast
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David Crowder: the eschatology of bluegrass
Back in the winter I told you about a book written by Christian rocker David Crowder along with his fiddle player Mike Hogan. I just finished reading it recently and thought I'd share about it for those that might be