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  • Speed Bumps On A Dirt Road – John Cohen

    September 10, 2019 | by John Lawless

    Most fans of old time and early bluegrass music know John Cohen as a musician, and a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, with whom he toured from 1958 until 2008. Their 20 albums of traditional and contemporary

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  • Pete Wernick’s JAM Songbook

    February 25, 2019 | by John Lawless

     Pete Wernick has given a great deal to the banjo and bluegrass communities over the course of his lengthy career. The author of several top-selling instructional books for banjo, he was also a founding member of Hot Rize, and the

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  • Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler – Barbara Martin Stephens

    August 9, 2018 | by Richard Thompson

    Author Barbara Martin Stephens was the common-law wife of Jimmy Martin, much troubled bluegrass star of the 1950s onwards.   Her personal story, Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler: My Life with Jimmy Martin, the King of Bluegrass, relates the

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  • Bill Clifton: America’s Bluegrass Ambassador to the World – a review

    November 8, 2017 | by Richard Thompson

    I have had to think long and hard about what to say about the recent Bill Clifton biography, America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World, by Bill C Malone. In many respects it is a perfectly acceptable biography, scholarly, yet quite readable. However,

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  • Onwards – Mile Twelve

    October 30, 2017 | by John Lawless

    We've written a good bit about Mile Twelve in recent months. The Boston-based group has been making noise in bluegrass with their virtuosic approach to the music, clever songwriting and arrangements, a nose-to-the-grindstone attitude, and a youthful energy that appeals

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  • Bill Monroe and Friends, The Sequel – Javonda Smith

    September 11, 2017 | by John Lawless

    Javonda Charlene Smith, friend and former employee of Bill Monroe, has released her second book of memories and photos based on the great man's life. Entitled Bill Monroe And Friends, The Sequel, this book offers a look at Big Mon,

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  • Love of bluegrass band shaped Peter Cooper’s music journey

    May 30, 2017 | by David Morris

    There’s plenty of fodder for bluegrass fans in Peter Cooper’s entertaining and enlightening book, Johnny’s Cash & Charley’s Pride, which is subtitled Lasting Legends and Untold Adventures in Country Music. Cooper, senior director, producer and writer at the Country Music Hall

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  • Volume Five banjo tabs from Patton Wages

    April 18, 2017 | by John Lawless

    Back in January we wrote about the banjo tab book expected this spring from Patton Wages, five string man with Volume Five. He's since sent along a copy for us to look over, and it's a first rate publication that

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  • Savage Fiddler Method by Annie Savage

    March 28, 2017 | by Guest Contributor

    This review of Join The Jam is a contribution from Deanie Richardson, fiddler with Sister Sadie, and prominent session player and instructor in Nashville. She has recorded and performed with top country artists and bluegrass acts alike, and has very

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  • Foggy Mountain Troubadour – The Life and Music of Curly Seckler

    June 30, 2016 | by Dick Bowden

    Those who are interested in the history of bluegrass and old country music must buy and read this wonderful book, Foggy Mountain Troubadour – The Life and Music of Curly Seckler, by Penny Parsons. Much like in the earlier Mac Wiseman

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