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Kentucky Traveler - My Life in Music by Ricky Skaggs, with Eddie Dean I enjoyed Ricky Skaggs’ autobiography Kentucky Traveler, so help me, I really did. When I first heard of it I was skeptical, and afraid it would be sort of

The 24th edition of Bluegrass in Superclass kicked off January 10th at the Holiday Inn French Quarter in Perrysberg, Ohio. Local band Deepwater Bluegrass started the show. They were followed by Harbourtown, Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road, Tony Holt and the Wildwood Valley

Five promoters of prominent bluegrass festivals have banded together in a new venture to jointly market and publicize their events. Together they will function as Bluegrass Circle Promotions. Involved are Cory Hemilright (Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival), Lorraine Jordan (Bluegrass Christmas In the Smokies), John

Poor Mountain Records has released a first single from Harvesting The Tradition, their first project with longstanding Pennsylvania band Remington Ryde. The song is Grandpa Was My Guide, written by Ryde guitarist Ryan Frankhouser. His own grandfather was the subject of this loving

The Out Among The Stars festival, more commonly known as OATS, has announced that the previously scheduled 2014 event has been cancelled, and that the festival will no longer be held. This would have been their 15th annual event, held over

Metaphorically speaking, that is. Terry Poirier is taking his bass skills to the Spinney Brothers, and has in fact, already started doing shows with the band. Like Allan and Rick Spinney, Terry is a native Canadian, though he lives now in

In November of 2013 we reported on changes at Lonesome Day Records. Label President Randall Deaton has taken on a new partner, Jeff Carter, CEO of Viamedia. In addition to many years of expertise in media marketing, Jeff's investment will allow

The IBMA has partnered with NoiseTrade to help promote the music of the 2013 crop of showcase artists at their World of Bluegrass. Called the Bluegrass Ramble Sampler, the free download includes 24 tracks from Johnny Williams, Nora Jane Struthers, Henhouse

Though Jr. Williams and Kati Penn-Williams of Newtown may not have scored the first baby born in 2014, they do have the distinction of making the first major personnel announcement of the new year. Jr. informs us today that their long time bass player, Terry

Starting in the early 1970s, American rock/jazz/pop band Steely Dan introduced a new model in the music business. Though they did tour extensively at the beginning, they soon became a studio band where their two creative founders (Donald Fagen and