Music

  • Rhonda Vincent 12 Days Of Christmas contest

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    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

  • Bradley Walker reviewed on Fresh Air

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    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

  • Merle Haggard bluegrass CD

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    From Ronnie Reno, via J.D. Rhynes, who posted on the California Bluegrass Association web site, comes word that Merle Haggard is working on a bluegrass project. That CBA news posting elicited a response from Elida Ickes on the CBA message board

  • New Pinecastle releases

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    We just got word from our friends at Pinecastle Records with the street dates for two of their upcoming releases which have been discussed here of late. Jack Cooke's Sittin' On Top Of The World, and The Circuit Riders' Let The

  • Infamous Stringdusters Halloween party

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    The folks at Sugar Hill Records have posted a hilarious slide show of photos on their MySpace blog taken during last week's Halloween Party at The Station Inn in Nashville. The show featured The Infamous Stringdusters, and the photos show them

  • Pete Goble – health update

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    Chris Cairns just sent along a note with an update on Pete Goble's health. Pete underwent back surgery last Tuesday and then suffered a blood clot in his lungs. He was put on a ventilator machine and was in critical

  • Circuit Riders debut CD on Pinecastle

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    Brance posted earlier this year about the first release from The Circuit Riders, made up of former members of the final edition of The Country Gentlemen prior to Charlie Waller's untimely passing. Charlie's son, Randy Waller, has maintained The Country

  • No more String Cheese

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    Just as fans of alt-acoustic supergroup Nickel Creek have had to adapt to the news that they are hanging it up next year, jamgrass followers are faced with the word that String Cheese Incident has announced plans to disband in

  • Tony Rice & Peter Rowan – Quartet

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    Cybergrass has a story announcing a January 23, 2007 release date for the new CD from Peter Rowan and Tony Rice. The CD is to be titled Quartet and will, of course, feature Rice and Rowan, along with Sharon Gilchrist

  • No Speed Limit In Japan

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    Well, that's a bit misleading I suppose. They do, I'm sure, have speed limits in Japan. The band No Speed Limit is not traveling to Japan anytime soon that I am aware of. They are, however, being listened to there.