Jim VanCleve

  • New DVDs due from AcuTab

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    AcuTab Publications has news of several new bluegrass instructional DVDs due during the summer and fall of 2008. Just completed shooting is a fiddle project with Mountain Heart's Jim Van Cleve which will go into editing shortly. Jim covered a number

  • Bluegrass at CMA Fan Fair

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    There will be some bluegrass offered during this week's big CMA Music Festival and Fan Fair in Nashville. Though the event officially begins on Thursday (6/5) and runs through Sunday (6/8), there is a kickoff concert tonight (6/4) at 10:00 p.m.

  • Carrie Hassler sneak peak

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    The second Rural Rhythm release from Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain isn't due until July 29, but a single has been released to bluegrass radio this week. The song is I Can Go Back Anytime, written by Jennifer Strickland, who had

  • Rick Hayes – Fly By Night

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    Rick Hayes, mandolinist with The Gibson Brothers, is in the studio putting the finishing touches to his first solo CD, Fly By Night, due for release in May. Rick plays mandolin, guitar and bass on the project with Ron Stewart

  • New Found Road CD coming along

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    New Found Road is also in the studio finishing up a new project. Guitarist and lead vocalist Tim Shelton tells us that they have completed the instrument tracking and have started in on vocals. Jim VanCleve is producing. "There are some really

  • Carrie Hassler back in the studio

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    We got a note from Jim VanCleve this morning with news about his next producing project, the upcoming CD from Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain. Jim had produced their self-titled debut release for Rural Rhythm in 2006 and when we

  • IBMA theme song on iTunes

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    We told you last fall about the new theme song for the IBMA Awards Show, The Road From Rosine, which debuted in October '07 at the show in Nashville. The song was written by Mountain Heart fiddler Jim VanCleve at the

  • NewFound Road back in the studio

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    NewFound Road is about to start working on a new CD. The first studio date is December 8, suggesting that a release in mid-to-late 2008 is reasonable. Mountain Heart's Jim Van Cleve will co-produce the new project with the band, and

  • Mashville Brigade & Friends

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    For many years now the legend of the Sidemen has lived on even though the group no longer performs at Nashville's Station Inn. In recent months, a new group of sidemen have come together to fill the void. They call themselves