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Westvon Publishing has launched a new series of guitar instructional packages, Hot Guitar Licks, and the first release is for bluegrass guitar. The package features audio files and printed music, and can either be delivered in the mail, or downloaded

There was another bluegrass wedding in Tennessee last month. Guitar gunslinger Clay Hess, currently working with Sierra Hull & Highway 111, married Samantha West on May 22 in Gatlinburg. They were engaged in mid-February and are living now in Ohio. Congratulations and

Josh Shilling shot some video onstage during Mountain Heart's show with Tony Rice and Terry Baucom on Friday night in Morganton, NC. Josh snuck up on Tony while he was playing the extended intro to Manzanita, and shot through the whole

Charles Dumont, who developed the MandoChords and BanjoChords apps for the iPhone, has a new addition to his roster. JamBuddy will turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into... well, a jam buddy. It will provide either mandolin or guitar accompaniment for

Jesse Cobb of the Infamous Stringdusters wrote in to inform us of his brother's loss of four instruments. The guitar should be easily identifiable by its serial number. The other instruments will not be so easy to identify. But if you

After many months of prototyping, Composite Acoustics is set to officially unveil their Tim Stafford signature model guitar on May 3. This has been Tim's primary guitar on the road with Blue Highway for the past year or so, and

The editors of Fretboard Journal are trying their hand at internet radio. They've recently launched Fretboard Journal BlogTalkRadio. The show is hosted by the editors of the magazine and will air live every Friday at 1PM PST. Each episode will be

Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter Steve Smith will be a guest on today's (3/27) edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX. Steve is based in New Mexico, and is currently completing a tour of the southeast which finishes tonight at The Palace

While his Quintet may not be exactly bluegrass, John Jorgenson certainly has the credentials to merit attention here on Bluegrass Today. John is one of the most talented musicians you'll ever see. The last time I saw him perform live,

For all you guitar players out there, Acoustic Guitar Magazine recently published a nice walk through tour of the Taylor Guitars factory. Complete with pictures at every step, the story takes you through an 18 step process beginning with the selection