California's Sawmill Road is in the studio this month as well, working on their third recording at Eric Uglum's New Wine Studios in Apple Valley. Despite a well-received showcase at IBMA in 2008, the band is not well known beyond the
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Snyder Family Band sign for the Coolers
The Snyder Family Band is the latest band to sign for Mountain Roads Recordings. The Lexington, North Carolina, based Snyder Family Band has recently signed for Mountain Roads Recordings, the Bristol, Tennessee, based label run by Karl and Gail Cooler. The family
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Dailey & Vincent – now with added deepness!
We told you last Friday that Dailey & Vincent had hired Christian Davis to sing bass in their quartets. On Saturday (1/23) I caught their show in Rocky Mount, VA and spoke to Jamie and Darrin about their latest hire. The
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Randy Kohrs: Quicksand
The new CD from Randy Kohrs landed in my inbox a couple weeks ago, but I just found the time to listen to it recently. What a treat I had been denying myself! Randy and team have hit it out of
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Lilly Drumeva – Lovin’ You
Bulagrian bluegrass songstress Lilly Drumeva has a new CD on Polysound Records. Lovin' You was recorded in both Bulgaria, with her band Lilly Of The West, and in Czech Republic, where she recorded with Czech grassers Monogram. The album features covers
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Bluegrass at Harvard
Harvard University has scheduled an academic event on February 6 focused on bluegrass music. The one day seminar is entitled, Fire On The Mountain - A Bluegrass Symposium, and will feature a keynote address and panel discussions including a number
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The Grascals – Country Crossings Grand Opening in Alabama
Nancy Cardwell, Special Projects Director for the IBMA - and a talented free lance musician and journalist - spent last weekend with The Grascals in Dothan, AL. They were there to kick-off a new venture with great possibilities for the
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New video in the works for Dixie Bee-Liners
The Dixie Bee-Liners will soon be releasing a video of their single Heavy. The song, which appears on the Bee-Liners' recent release Susanville, heavily features mountain dulcimer and fiddle. Director Chris Connor and the band shot the video on location in
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Audie Blaylock holding mandolin auditions
Attention SPBGMA-bound mandolinists and tenor singers. Patrick McAvinue, who plays fiddle with Audie Blaylock & Redline, tells us that they are hunting a new bandmate at SPBGMA next weekend in Nashville. Darrell Webb had been handling the mandolin and tenor spot
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Christian Davis to Dailey & Vincent
Dailey & Vincent have announced the hiring of Christian Davis to sing bass and play a second guitar in the band, starting this weekend (1/22). Christian has been singing since he was a young boy, working with a number of southern