Rickey Wasson has chosen today, August 27 - the birthday of bluegrass banjo hero J.D. Crowe - to release the first single from their upcoming collaboration project. The album is a bluegrass tribute to the late Merle Haggard, with Rickey
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Three classic digital re-issues from CMH
CMH Records has re-released three gems from their catalog today, all available for the first time in digital form. All three had initially been pressed as LPs in the early 1980s, featuring several of the top artists that recorded for
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Fly Possum Fly – song and children’s book from Grant Maloy Smith and Emi Sunshine
The humble possum has long been a staple of the folklore of the southeastern United States. Their preponderance in both urban and rural environments makes for a symbol easily recognized, but while not as universally hated as the mouse or
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More August ’18 Gettysburg images
Ricky Skaggs at the August 2018 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker Here's another gallery of Frank Baker's photographs from this past weekend's Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. It looks like at least another two before we're done.
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Billy Ray Latham passes
Billy Ray Latham, the gregarious banjo player and showman with The Kentucky Colonels, died on Sunday in Nashville at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was 80 years of age. Friends say that Billy had been in poor health of late,
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Polly Lewis passes
Polly Lewis Williamson Copsey passed away on Sunday, August 19, 2018, after a battle with the effects of Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body dementia for the past 16 years. She was 81 years of age. Born on January 23, 1937, in
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Mel Tillis and bluegrass music
Country music singer and songwriter Mel Tillis passed away on November 19, 2017, at the age of 85. Following major surgery in 2016 the Country Music Hall of Famer never quite regained his full strength. More associated as a country music crooner
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Earl’s Breakdown video from the Earls Of Leicester
Rounder Records is releasing another single in advance of their upcoming double live album from the Earls Of Leicester, Live at The CMA Theater in The Country Music Hall of Fame. Just as the title indicates, Jerry Douglas and the Earls
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George McCeney passes
George McCeney, one of the founders of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, died on August 11 at his home in Timonium, MD. He was 79 years of age and had been ill for some time. From the time he was a young man,
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2018 Galax Old Fiddlers Convention winners
Mentor Nate Leath poses with Aila and Eli Wilman and The Wildmans at Galax 2018 Another Old Fiddlers Convention has come and gone in Galax, VA - the 83rd annual to be exact - and it was a special week for