We got a note from Randy Culler with Bluegrass & Beyond that their debut CD, Livin' A Dream, is now available. The band is based in Southwest VA/Northwest NC and they specialize in traditional bluegrass and gospel music. Audio samples are
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Curly Seckler and James King
Anyone who caught the James King Band performance at SPBGMA earlier this month in Nashville enjoyed seeing bluegrass legend Curly Seckler join them on stage. We have recently learned that Curly will also be a guest vocalist on the next
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Gibson Brothers CD lands on Billboard chart
We just heard from Eric Gibson of The Gibson Brothers, that their new Sugar Hill project, Red Letter Day, debuted on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart at #5 in its second week of release. The CD is also climbing on the
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Celebration Of Life, St. Jude bluegrass benefit CD
Celebration Of Life is the title of an upcoming two CD release from Skaggs Family Records to benefit the St. Jude Children"s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. It is a live recording from the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival, and
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More bluegrass on MySpace.com
Gracie Muldoon, one of our regular correspondents and a popular Internet bluegrass cybercaster, responded to our post last week about Nothin' Fancy on MySpace.com.???She wanted to let us know that a good many bluegrass bands had pages there, and that
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Jayme Stone web site
Jayme Stone, an adventurous young progressive banjo player from Canada, profiled last summer on the cover of Banjo NewsLetter, is now living in Boulder, CO, and has a new web site to announce. Jayme has immersed himself in the music
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John Cowan Band records for Sony Connect
The John Cowan Band was recently in the studio where they recorded a number of tracks for exclusive online distribution through Sony's Connect. Sony is presenting Connect as an alternative to Apple's iTunes Music Store. The Cowan tracks should be
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Wallace Lewis home from 3 week hospital stay
Wallace Lewis, one of the founding members of The Lewis Family, is back home after being hospitalized since the last week of January. He went in as a result of high fever and kidney problems, and was diagnosed with pneumonia
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Carolina Breakdown – Etta Baker & Cora Phillips
In bluegrass we think of banjo in terms of what Earl did with the instrument. Sometimes we consider the claw-hammer style used by old time players. But rarely would we think of banjo and associate it with the blues. But
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New CD from New Road
New Road, a bluegrass gospel group based in Knoxville, TN, released their latest CD on February 14. The Message is their sixth recording as a band, and is made up primarily of songs written by the members. Attendees at last