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Dan talks about learning to play as a young boy, his early picking days with Green Mountain Bluegrass and his tremendous success in recent years.
The Bluegrass Guide is published each spring with festival listings and flyers, and a variety of profiles of bands, songwriters, engineers/producers and radio hosts.
It can be ordered online for $10 (plus $5 shipping).
To participate, visit the Songwriter Chat page at 8:00 and log in. There is no fee to participate, and only a very brief registration is required to join.
Transcripts from previous sessions with Tim Stafford, Larry Cordle, Brink Brinkman, Chris Stuart and others can be found on the site as well (scroll to the bottom of the page).
You can join Eric and Tim at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on Tuesday evening by logging into the chat room on The Bluegrass Guide web site. Chat participants can pose their own questions to Tim, or simply read along.
To participate, visit the Songwriter Chat page and log in. No registration is required.
Transcripts from previous sessions with Larry Cordle, Brink Brinkman, Chris Stuart and others can be found on the site as well (scroll to the bottom of the page).
This online chat forum is hosted monthly by Rick Lang, and is designed to give songwriters an opportunity to interact with successful bluegrass writers from the comfort of their computer screens.
There is no fee to participate, and only a very brief registration is required to join in.
You can find transcripts from previous Songwriter Chat sessions by scrolling to the bottom of The Bluegrass Guide Chat Room page.
The Gibson Brothers were also the featured artists in the 2007 print edition of The Bluegrass Guide, an annual listing of festivals and bluegrass events.
The Guide sells for only $10, and can be ordered online for immediate delivery.
Candi is still collecting recipes for her bluegrass cookbook, which should be released this summer. She had originally planned to include them in the ’07 Bluegrass Guide, but has decided to assemble them in a separate edition.
Recipe submission can be sent by email.
This will be an interactive online conversation, where songwriters are encouraged to ask questions and discuss their craft with each month’s featured guest.
To participate in tonight’s Songwriter Chat, simply visit the Bluegrass Guide Chat Room at 8:00 p.m. As always, the chat will be hosted and moderated by Rick Lang.
He has been writing in Nashville since 1982, with more than 300 songs recorded, many by country hit makers like Reba McEntire and John Anderson, with 10 songs that have reached the Top 20 on the gospel music charts.
Jerry has released a bluegrass project this year, New Songs, Old Friends, with contributions from such stellar artists as Vince Gill, Doyle Lawson, Bryan Sutton, Adam Steffey, Jamie Johnson, Rob Ickes, Del McCoury, Rhonda Vincent, Carl Jackson, Stuart Duncan, Larry Cordle, Alecia Nugent, Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White.
To participate in tonight’s Songwriter Chat, simply visit the Bluegrass Guide Chat Room at 8:00 p.m. As always, the chat will be hosted and moderated by Rick Lang.
Larry Cordle will the guest on Tuesday evening’s songwriter chat at bluegrassguide.com, the web site for the Bluegrass Guide, a print periodical published by Mountain High Bluegrass Association.
The format is intended to be one where songwriters have an opportunity to pose questions and interact with prominent practitioners of the craft. While everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussion, lurkers are welcome as well.
Cordle, of course, has seen success as a songwriter in both the bluegrass and country music worlds, penning hits for Ricky Skaggs (Highway 40 Blues) and Alan Jackson (Murder On Music Row). He has had a long career recording and performing his own compositions with his band, Lonesome Standard Time.
The chat starts at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on January 23, and you can find a link to the chat room on the Bluegrass Guide web site.
We got a note from Candi Sawyer at The Bluegrass Guide, asking for recipe submissions from bluegrass bands, fans, promoters and anyone else associated with the music. She said that she has wanted to include a Bluegrass Cookbook in their annual festival listings for some time, and even started several years ago, only to be taken ill before she was able to get it done.
She is ready to try again for the 2007 edition, and asks that anyone who has a recipe they would like to share in The Bluegrass Guide please contact her by email. Submissions can be in one of several common categories:
Candi asks that you send information about how you are affiliated with bluegrass music in your email, and show an ingredients list, followed by directions for your recipes. All submissions will be credited, and she suggests that bands and promoters can get a nice plug by having a recipe published in the 2007 issue.
The folks at Bluegrass Guide will host the first Songwriter Chat session of their new season this evening (10/17). It will be with Eric and Leigh Gibson, and take place at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). Rick Lang of Haley Anna Music will host the session.
All are welcome, and there is no cost to join the chat. To participate (or merely lurk), you need to visit the Bluegrass Guide chat room, and click the “Live Chat” link.
