Banjo picker Tim Davis and mandolinist Matt Hiser have collaborated on a new album of bluegrass instrumentals called Flying High. Other than the title cut, written by Hiser, it's a set of tunes that should be familiar to bluegrass listeners, though
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Chatnam County Line at Country Standard Time
Country Standard Time uses the recent release of their latest CD, Wildwood, as the springboard for a lengthy piece about alt-bluegrass road warriors Chatham County Line. The article by Brian Baker, conducted largely as an interview with Chatham County Line guitarist/vocalist
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Get Low hits next week
Can lightning strike twice? Rounder Records and Sony Picture Classics are hoping so as they plan the July 27 and 30 releases of the soundtrack and the new film, Get Low. It's a quirky, 1930s period piece set in the rural
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Fairview Avenue
Oddly enough, summer is the slow season for bluegrass news each year. All the bands are touring like crazy, but unless someone jumps ship, there isn't as much new information to share. So we plan to use this next little while
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Major Award for Nu-Blu
We wrote back in April about Nu-Blu, the terrific bluegrass band from North Carolina, when their most recent CD, Nights, was released. They had been caught in the crossfire when Pinecastle Records closed in February, and ended up releasing the
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More bluegrass radio options today
Here's a couple more good radio options to consider for today (7/21). At 11:00 a.m. (EDT) this morning, Donna Ulisse will be on Sirius-XM's Bluegrass Junction with Kyle Cantrell. She will be on the Track-By-Track program, playing through all the songs
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Rich In Tradition shows its Pedigree
July 2010 is a eventful month for the Galyean family of Virginia. In the first instance it is tinged with much sadness at the passing of Cullen Galyean. Secondly, on a much brighter note, it marks the release of the album
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Barry Bales video contest
Have Bass Will Travel... That's the name of a clever YouTube video created by AKUS bass man Barry Bales, and of the video contest we are running on Bluegrass Today in conjunction with the recent release of his AcuTab bass
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New County Grass – Start the Whole Thing Over
New County Grass is a new group from the bluegrass hotbed of Flint, Michigan. OK... that's not fair, but as the guys themselves acknowledge, Flint is better known for automobile manufacturing (and Michael Moore) than it is for driving bluegrass
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A final word from Butch Baldassari
SoundArt Recordings has announced an early August release for a new project from Butch Baldassari and Van Manakas, Leavin' Tennessee, which was completed shortly before Butch succumbed to an aggressive brain cancer in 2009. The album features Butch on mandolin with