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Dixie Bee Liners
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RIPE drops for Dixie Bee-Liners
The Dixie Bee-Liners are understandably excited to see this week's release of RIPE, their debut project on Pinecastle. The band is the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Brandi Hart and mandolinist Buddy Woodward who got the band started in New York. After completing
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Shingle Bells
This Christmas dialog comes from Brandi Hart and Buddy Woodward of The Dixie Bee-Liners. 'Nuff said... BUDDY: Enter Mike Wallace...dateline, Christmas season 2005. Location, the capital of country music, New York City. We had just put out
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2008 Ripe for The Dixie Bee-Liners
The Dixie Bee-Liners have come a long way to this point, where they are anticipating their debut, full-length CD release, Ripe, on Pinecastle Records. Band principals Brandi Hart, a Lexington, KY native, joined Buddy Woodward in his native New York city
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IBMA: An Effective Web Presence
Two weeks ago at IBMA John and I, along with Brandi Hart of The Dixie Bee Liners, conducted a seminar, the official title being Establishing & Maintaining an Effective Web Presence. I thought I'd do a recap here of some
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Playing For The Future
Since we're on the topic of benefit concerts, here's another one. The Emory & Henry College Appalachian Center for Community Service is sponsoring a benefit concert this Friday, September 7, 2007. The concert, billed as Playing for the Future, will take
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Pinecastle signs The Dixie Bee-Liners
The Dixie Bee-Liners are the newest member of the Pinecastle Records family, with their first full-length CD project, Ripe, expected early in 2008. Their debut, self-titled release was a short form CD with 8 tracks, released in 2005. It spent over
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Dixie Bee-Liners at Gibson.com
The Dixie Bee-Liners have a nice feature up on Gibson's web site. It gives an overview of the band - and their story of meeting and starting a bluegrass band in New York, and then moving to Virginia - along
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Dixie Bee-Liners head south
The Dixie Bee-Liners could be seen as an anomaly in the rapidly expanding world of bluegrass and acoustic music - a male/female, singer/songwriter duo playing Appalachian-inflected original music with their band, originally from a base in New York City. On second