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We told you back in July that recordings were being made at the 2006 Grey Fox festival which would be available for purchase via FestivaLink, a web-based company dedicated to offering high quality festival recordings for sale online. They work closely

When rising country singer Josh Turner released his latest CD, Your Man, in January 2006, we posted that one of the tracks would feature a duet with bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley. Universal Music Nashville has made the full audio from

Hazel Smith is one of the more colorful characters you'll find on TV. Her cooking segments on such popular programs as Emeril Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show have made her into a minor celebrity. Her cookbook, Hot Dish: Hazel's

Katherine Cole reviewed Chris Thile's latest CD, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, for Voice Of America in a broadcast on November 15. There isn't much in the way of news in her review, and readers of Bluegrass

We posted last week about some of the press coverage from China of the current Sparrow Quartet tour. The band features Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn on picked and non-picked banjo respectively, with Casey Driessen on fiddle and Ben Sollee

Listen now: (IE users click to activate) This week's guest on The GrassCast is Tim Shelton of NewFound Road. Their latest CD, Life In A Song, was released the end of September 2006. Tim and John

We found a nice profile of Louise Scruggs in the November 13 edition of American Chronicle, which can be read online. She was married to banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs for more than 50 years when she passed away on February

To help promote her newly-released Christmas CD, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, Rhonda Vincent has launched an online contest with a 12 Days Of Christmas theme. This is really a series of 12 contests, involving trivia questions, each running for 2

We found a link on Pete Wernick's web site that points to the audio from a recent edition of Etown, the weekly radio show hosted by former Hot Rize bass man Nick Forster. The show included one of the occasional

There was a review of Bradley Walker's debut release, Highway Of Dreams, featured on yesterday's edition of Fresh Air, carried on most NPR affiliate stations. The review by Ken Tucker focuses almost entirely on Bradley as a country singer, and discusses