Category: News & Industry Updates

WSM live compilation includes McCoury, Grascals cuts

The legendary WSM AM 650 in Nashville, home of the Grand Ole Opry since 1925, has assembled a compilation album of…

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Nuts and Bolts of Songwriting by Niall Toner

Irish songwriter Niall Toner has written a book about his chosen profession, set for a June 8 launch at The Borris…

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Story Behind the Song – Crossing the Bar

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote Crossing the Bar in 1889, three years before he died. The poem describes his placid and accepting…

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Nechville announces Diamond Joe/Sonny Smith banjo

Nechville Musical Products has debuted a new Diamond Joe banjo, customized as a signature model for Sonny Smith. Sonny, along with…

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Coda Mountain Academy adds bluegrass

Another successful infiltration for bluegrass music… We heard recently from Brandon Green, lecturer and band director in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old…

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Submissions solicited for Bluegrass Country’s live WOB broadcasts

For the past five years, WAMU’s Bluegrass Country has lugged hundreds of pounds of gear from their Washington, DC studios to…

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The History of Future Folk

Speaking of bluegrass in the movies… The History of Future Folk is set to premiere in New York at the end…

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Balsam Range to the silver screen

“They’re gonna put me in the movies…” So sang Buck Owens (and Ringo Starr) in the mid 1960s in Act Naturally,…

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Special Lady, Special Song

Right after she found out she was dying, Carol Simpson found a way to live forever. She decided to record a…

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Bluegrass Country to launch the Spinney’s No Borders

WAMU’s Bluegrass Country will feature an official debut of No Borders, the brand new CD from the The Spinney Brothers on…

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