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Mountain Heart unveils their new sound this weekend on The Grand Ole Opry, introducing guitarist/vocalist Josh Shilling for the first time on last night's Friday Opry, and performing again tonight on the Opry radio broadcast. They got a call back from

Mark Newton will be the guest on this week's edition of XM Satellite Radio's Studio Special on Bluegrass Junction (XM-14). He joins host Kyle Cantrell for a one hour show that mixes interviews with live (in studio) performances from Mark's

The performance this weekend by Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA has generated some press in and around the US capital. Richard Harrington has a lengthy piece in today's Washington Post which looks at Ricky's long

We posted earlier this week that Larry Keel was profiled in the current (February '07) issue of Guitar Player Magazine. It turns out that dobro master Rob Ickes also gets a mention in this issue, listed among the 100 Forgotten Greats

On October 28, 2006 The Daughters Of Bluegrass took home the coveted Recorded Event of the Year award for their second CD release, Back To The Well. The evening before the awards were announced, they also performed at an official

WNCW 88.7 FM in NC has posted the results of their online voting for the best releases of 2006. The results take the form of Top 100 Lists starting with a comprehensive list and then broken out into genre specific

Bobby Osborne will be the special guest tomorrow (1/5) on the Muldoon In The Afternoon show on WorldWideBluegrass.com. Bobby will join host Gracie Muldoon at 1:30 p.m. (EST) to discuss his plans for 2007, and his long and storied career in

We got a note from Kate Brandon, Music Director at KSIL in Silver City, NM. She wrote to let everyone know that she is broadcasting the same mix of Americana, Alt-Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Folk, R&B, Roots Rock and such

The Del McCoury Band has posted four new video clips on their MySpace page. They are taken from the second All Star Bluegrass Celebration concert at The Grand Ole Opry in April 2003, aired on PBS, and available on DVD

UPDATED 4:15 p.m. and re-written for bonehead error - see bottom of post. The February 2007 issue of Guitar Player Magazine includes a feature on flatpicker Larry Keel. This is the current issue, now available in stores. Larry has skirted the