Music

  • The Chapmans – Grown Up

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    We posted last week with news about The Chapmans signing with Compass Records. At that time, we promised some more details on their next CD soon, and Jeremy Chapman has provided us with just that... "Grown Up (A Revisionist History) is

  • Don Rigsby in 2010

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    Don Rigsby will be starting off the new year with a new focus in his career. This award-winning singer and mandolinist had spent the past 8 years as the Director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University

  • Glenn Gibson comes off the road

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    Glenn Gibson has announced he will not be continuing as resonator guitarist with Marty Raybon and Full Circle in the 2010 season. He had worked as a member of Full Circle for well over a year and can be heard

  • Chapmans sign with Compass Records

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    The Chapmans and Compass Records have announced that they will be working together in 2010. Mandolinist Jeremy Chapman tells us that a new album has been completed, and is expected in the near future. "We're very excited to be working with Alison,

  • Full scholarship for Wernick advanced banjo camp

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    One full scholarship to Pete Wernick's Advanced Banjo Camp (1/18-23/10) is still available. Three such scholarships have already been awarded for the 2010 camp, but another has just recently been announced. Move quickly if you want to apply, however. The application

  • Adam Haynes to Larry Stephenson

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    Well that didn't take long... Adam Haynes is barely gone from Dailey & Vincent, and has now hooked up with The Larry Stephenson Band. He'll be playing fiddle and sharing in the vocal duties along with Kyle Perkins on bass, Kevin

  • Jesse Stockman to Dailey & Vincent

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    Dailey & Vincent have announced that Jesse Stockman has joined the band playing fiddle. Stockman had been playing with The Isaacs this past four years, and before that was with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. He hails from New Mexico, where he

  • Two heads are better than one…

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    Make that two headstocks... We heard from Alan Bibey this weekend with an update about the twin mandolin CD he is recording with Wayne Benson. This project has been a long time in coming, with these two top pickers getting together

  • Dr. Ralph’s last hurrah?

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    Ralph Stanley has been in the studio this month, working on a new album for Rebel Records, one which he has intimated may be his last. This will be an all-Gospel project, produced by his son Ralph Stanley II. Ralph is

  • Greg Cahill checks in

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    We just heard from Greg Cahill, Special Consensus founder and fearless leader, about how they are spending their Christmas vacation... "Just a note to let you know that we are in Brent Truitt's Nashville studio this week recording 6 new songs