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  • Free Ron Block transcriptions online

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    Ron Block, guitar and banjo player with Alison Krauss & Union Station, has posted a number of free tabs on his web site. There are 22 in all, with both banjo and guitar transcriptions included, all available as free PDF/JPG

  • Nashville road trip and new header images

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    John and I have been on a little road trip this week. The business of bluegrass brought us down out of the mountains of Southwest Virginia to visit Music City USA. We've been in Nashville since Monday afternoon, and have

  • Win a Henderson guitar

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    The Ola Belle Reed Homecoming Festival is sponsoring the raffle of a Wayne Henderson D-18 guitar to raise funds to further and preserve the music of their namesake. Ola Belle Reed was a singer, songwriter and banjo player who performed with

  • Inlay Art

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    Modern Guitars Magazine is an online publication dedicated to, you guessed it, guitars. They published a story on Monday about luthier/inlay artist Grit Laskin. Laskin is located in Toronto, Canada. His signature style is elaborate inlays in both headstock and fingerboard.

  • Washburn celebrates 125 years

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    The folks at Washburn Guitars are celebrating 2007 as their 125th year making and marketing musical instruments. The company was founded in 1887 by George Washburn Lyon, and located in a small factory in Chicago, IL. An early focus of Washburn

  • Cherryholmes contest winners announced

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    Cherryholmes has announced the winners in a contest we told you about in late May, drawn from customers who pre-ordered a copy of their new CD, Cherryholmes II - Black and White, from their web site. The grand prize of a

  • Wyatt Rice rhythm guitar workshop

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    Flatpicking and bluegrass guitar superstar Wyatt Rice will be conducting a four-day workshop on bluegrass rhythm guitar at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch, August 24-27, 2007. Bluegrass fans know Wyatt for his many years playing guitar with brother Tony in The

  • Gibson acquires Garrison Guitars

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    Gibson has announced their acquisition this week of Garrison Guitars of St. John's Newfoundland, in Canada. Garrison was started by Chris Griffiths in 1999, using a new bracing system he had developed, and dubbed the Griffiths Active Bracing System. This system

  • Randy Wood on Georgia Public Broadcasting

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    Georgia Public Broadcasting recently featured a short story about luthier Randy Wood. The feature ran on the GPB TV network, but ten minutes of it is now available online via YouTube.com. The ten minute clip shows Randy in his shop building