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Our roving correspondent David Morris shares a few loosely-related thoughts as we move forward into the 2011 festival season. THE GIBSONS SOAR. Could this be the year of the Gibson Brothers? A year after Ring the Bell won song of the

Joe Webb Forrester passed away on Sunday, January 16, age 91. Joe Forrester, who was born on March 21, 1919, was the older brother of the better known bluegrass musician, fiddler ‘Howdy’ Forrester. Like ‘Howdy,’ he was a member of Bill

David Morris attended Bass Strummit III as the winner of Barry Bales’ Have Bass, Will Travel video contest on Bluegrass Today. Here, he shares his thoughts from the workshop. If you need to reach him, he’s probably practicing. Sorry, honey, but

Since they were first introduced in the 1930s, musicians have regarded strobe tuners as the most accurate devices for obtaining an objective tuning reference. The early examples of this sort of tuner were expensive and cumbersome, and not practical for

Big changes have been announced this week for David Parmley and Continental Divide. After a period of relative inactivity, Parmley has announced two new hires, two new recording projects and a renewed aggressiveness with regard to his music career. Matt Wallace

Barry Bales has chosen the Grand Prize winner in our Have Bass Will Travel video contest. It was selected from among the six finalists chosen last week by readers of Bluegrass Today. May we have the envelope please? The prize goes

Lorraine Jordan has a new bass player in her band, Carolina Road. Charley Oakley, from Roxboro, NC will hold down the rhythm section, do a bit of buck dancing in the show, and keep everybody in line out on the road.

OK...  our readers have spoken. We have our six finalists for the Have Bass Will Travel video contest. The contest started as a fun promotion for Alison Krauss & Union Station bass man Barry Bales' AcuTab instructional DVD, A Solid Foundation

Don't forget that tonight at midnight (8/27) is the deadline to cast your vote for the finalists in our Have Bass Will Travel video contest. So far, we've received over 3,000 votes, with the top contenders switching back and forth

We just can't do it! Brance and I, and a team of guest video-watching judges, have been unable to reach a consensus on which six of the many entries in our Have Bass Will Travel contest deserve to move on