Bluegrass Radio

  • Happy Birthday to Little Jody Rainwater

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    Charles Johnson is better known to bluegrass fans as Little Jody Rainwater, bass player with bluegrass legends Flatt & Scruggs during the early 1950s. Today is Jody's 89th birthday, and the radio station that he called home after departing from the

  • WNRV goes online

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    WNRV, AM 990, here in the New River Valley, has gone online. Their live feed is not yet operational, but they are working on it, and tell me it should be available soon. The website is up and running though, and

  • Pinecastle adds radio download service

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    Pinecastle Records has launched a new service on the label's web site, a download page for authorized radio programmers. Audio files will be posted as soon as they are released to radio with the choice of either MP3 or lossless

  • SiriusXM

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    Monday the US Department of Justice approved the proposed merger/buyout of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio companies. The proposed merger is really a Sirius take over of XM, to the tune of $5 billion. This proposal has been in the works

  • McReynolds’ Radio Show now online

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    Bluegrass legend Jesse McReynolds has benn hosting a live radio show on WHIN Radio 1010 AM in Gallatin, TN, for a while now. But, being a local radio station, the show was previously unavailable for those outside WHIN's broadcast area.

  • Seldom Scene with Bob Edwards

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    Ben Eldridge, Dudley Connell and Fred Travers from Seldom Scene joined Bob Edwards on the radio last Saturday for his Bob Edwards Weekend show on PBS. The show was recorded just after the Grammy nominations were announced in December '07,

  • Stringdusters live on WREK

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    The Infamous Stringdusters will be doing a live radio appearance Saturday (2/9) at 3:00 p.m. (EST) from the studios of WREK FM in Atlanta, GA. The guys will be interviewed on air, and expect to play a few tunes live in

  • RadioIO adds newgrass stream

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    Internet streaming audio service RadioIO is doubling their channel offerings this month, going from 28 to 60 discrete streams by February 1. Among the new channels is a Newgrass stream to feature acoustic music a bit too edgy for their

  • Bluegrass Mix broadcasting online

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    Bluegrass Mix is the latest internet bluegrass radio station to launch, going live just a few days ago. Founders Roger Randolph and Julie Raye Huffman describe it as their "Christmas present to bluegrass fans around the globe." Though the stream is