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With the television writer's strike in its sixth week, speculation has been rife that the 2008 American TV season would lean even heavier on reality shows. Right on time, CMT has announced that they have teamed up with the producers of

CMT.com has an article on Cherryholmes up today by Edward Morris. The article describes how the popular family band came to be - a story that will be familiar to their many fans - and includes a lengthy interview with patriarch

CMT.com's Studio 330 Sessions has compiled clips from a number of their bluegrass-themed shows into a best of program they call Masters Of Mandolin. It includes performances by Ricky Skaggs, Chris Thile, Doyle Lawson, Marty Stuart and Ronnie McCoury. Not all

There is an online feature about the latest Larry Sparks release, The Last Suit You Wear, up at CMT.com. Written by Edward Morris, the piece provides details about the new release, interspersed with comments from Sparks, along with a brief overview

Here are a few stories we found online this weekend which many of our readers may enjoy. CMT.com ran a fun piece earlier this week about Amnesia, a club in San Francisco's Mission district, that has successfully launched a Monday night

The newest set of live performance and interview videos added at CMT.com's Studio 330 Sessions features Chris Thile. He performs alone, minus his crack band, The Tensions Mountain Boys. The songs included are all from his latest release, How To Grow

Here's an interesting story that I missed while I was out of town last week. CMT.com put up a nice feature last Wednesday on Nashville's long-time bluegrass headquarters, The Station Inn. Since the club first began promoting bluegrass shows in the

We've posted many times this past few weeks with updates about CMT.com's online video competition for unsigned artists, with the winner being flown to Nashville to record a segment for CMT.com's Studio 330 Sessions. Our focus has been on the bluegrass

Over the course of CMT.com's Music City Madness video competition, we have highlighted the progress of a number of bluegrass - or bluegrassy - entries. The second round winners have been announced, and Buncombe Turnpike has made it into the Sweet

We posted last month with news about a number of bluegrass, or bluegrass-related videos that were selected to compete in CMT.com's Music City Madness online video contest. The first round of voting has concluded, and two of the four we mentioned