Music

  • 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

  • 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,

  • Another Award For Hazel Dickens

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    Hazel Dickens, a pioneer who helped clear the bluegrass trail for Claire Lynch, Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent and others, will soon collect another award for her mantel. Dickens, 75, is the second winner of the D.C. Bluegrass Union’s Washington Monument Award

  • Bluegrass triple whammy with Red Roots

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    What would you call a bluegrass Gospel group composed of young ladies from south Mississippi who happen to be identical, red-headed triplets? If you are Nicloe, Nika and Natalie Taylor, you go by Red Roots. Now 19 years of age, the

  • High Rollers take the prize

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    Jimmy Metts with New Cuts Of Bluegrass has announced the winner in our Win A Free Track contest. The High Rollers from Tennessee will have a track from their Welcome The High Rollers CD included on the April issue of New

  • Cia Cherryholmes and Sherri Clark

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    Since Cherryholmes announced their unexpected dissolution in January, the bluegrass world has been rife with rumors and speculation. Will the kids reform without mom and dad? Perhaps they will all go on to work with other groups? Well, we have an answer

  • Harley Lee Allen remembered

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    In addition to the fine memorial David Morris provided for us earlier this week, Richard Thompson has put together a career retrospective of Harley Allen. As reported earlier, singer and song writer Harley Allen died on Wednesday, March 30 at his

  • Joe Mullins says: Name That Bus!

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    Joe Mullins is running a fan poll to choose a name for the bus he uses to haul himself and all his Radio Ramblers from place to place. He and the band have narrowed it down to five, and are inviting

  • Tommy Shaw – The Great Divide

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    "You mean that Tommy Shaw - the guy from Styx?" That was the most common reaction I got when telling folks about The Great Divide, Tommy Shaw's newly-released bluegrass CD. Likewise when I mentioned that I had a great interview with