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  • Recording King debuts new Carl Jackson model banjo

    February 14, 2023 | by Sandy Hatley

    Greg Rich and Carl Jackson with the Carl Jackson Signature banjo at SPBGMA - photo by Robin Jackson Recording King has recently announced a new model to their line of banjos: the Carl Jackson Signature Edition model.   "We've worked with some

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  • Carl Jackson soothes a savage beast with his music, i.e., his grandson

    December 23, 2022 | by Sandy Hatley

    The holidays are a time for families to gather. The young congregate with the not-so-young. It makes for a special occasion when we can appreciate and experience multi-generational love among our relatives. Sometimes, the youngest can become tired, fretful, and not

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  • Carl Jackson documentary airs on Mississippi PBS

    February 26, 2020 | by Sandy Hatley

    Carl Jackson, the pride of Louisville, MS, has been immortalized in a television documentary, Meet Carl Jackson, for Mississippi Public Broadcasting. A private showing of the movie that included family, friends, and state dignitaries was held on the house floor

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  • Happy Birthday Carl Jackson

    September 18, 2019 | by Sandy Hatley

    Today, Carl Jackson, two time grammy winner and three time IBMA award recipient, celebrates his 66th birthday. The only son of Lee and Ruby Pearl Jackson of Louisville, MS, began his musical career as a teenager picking banjo for Jim

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  • The Night Flatt & Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall by Jerry Salley

    June 30, 2017 | by John Lawless

    There may be no single event in the history of bluegrass more charged with legend than the time in 1962 when Flatt & Scruggs played Carnegie Hall. Of course the LP of that live performance is among the finest they

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  • Orthophonic Joy contest winners announced

    July 25, 2014 | by John Lawless

    The Birthplace of Country Music announced today that Corbin Hayslett was the winner of the video contest to be included on the upcoming Orthophonic Joy album project. The record will recreate songs from the 1927 Bristol Sessions, when Ralph Peer tracked a number

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  • Jesse McReynolds 85th Birthday Roast

    July 21, 2014 | by John Lawless

    To celebrate Jesse McReynolds' 85th birthday earlier this month, family, friends and neighbors of the bluegrass mandolin legend got together at Jesse's home outside of Nashville for a birthday tribute in the form of a celebrity roast. Popular radio host Harv Mason served

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  • More on the Bristol Sessions Revisited album

    June 16, 2014 | by John Lawless

    The Birthplace of Country Music Association in Bristol is offering an opportunity for acoustic artists and singers to appear on the highly-anticipated Orthophonic Joy album, alongside major country and bluegrass artists like Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Doyle Lawson, Marty Stuart and

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  • Orthophonic Joy reimagines The Bristol Sessions

    June 11, 2014 | by John Lawless

    Bluegrass fans like to point to the first Grand Ole Opry appearance by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs as the official birth of bluegrass music. The Ryman Auditorium even has an historical

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  • The Church Sisters need your help

    November 14, 2013 | by John Lawless

    So many bluegrass and acoustic artists have been using Kickstarter of late, seeking crowdsourced funding for new albums, that we can't post all the ones we sniff out online. But here is one of special merit that we hope you'll

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