First Ladies of Bluegrass at RockyGrass 2018 - photo by Pete Wernick The First Ladies of Bluegrass, initially assembled by Alison Brown for a video with her Deering Julia Belle banjo, and who recorded together for Missy Raines' upcoming Compass recording,
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Harold Chriscoe passes
Bluegrass pickers in central North Carolina have lost a good friend this week with the passing of Harold Chriscoe. He was 81 years old when he passed on July 25, surrounded by his family at home. Chriscoe had been repairing and eventually
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Tom T. Hall sez: I’m not dead yet!
This morning's (7/26) print edition of the Tennessean in Nashville carried a nice story about Tom T. and Dixie Hall being inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame this year. But a photo caption mistakenly indicated that both of them were
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2018 IBMA Award nominees announced
At a press conference earlier this morning in Nashville, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the final nominees for their 2018 International Bluegrass Music Awards, along with this year's Hall Of Fame Inductees and Distinguished Achievement Award recipients. The winners will be
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Track Premiere: A New Old Record from Lauderdale and White
(Editor’s Note: This article is drawn from an interview the author conducted for his radio show, Songwriter Showcase, which will debut next month at bluegrasscountry.org.) Jim Lauderdale and Roland White have a pile of records between them. Lauderdale alone just passed
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Track Premiere: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow from High Fidelity
We written many times about Nashville's High Fidelity, and their mission to bring back the sound of bluegrass music from the '50s and '60s. It's a project of Jeremy and Corrina Stephens, husband and wife as well as musical partners,
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Wreck Of My Heart drops from Lonesome River Band
Mountain Home Music Company has released a second single from their upcoming project with Lonesome River Band. This time it's a mid-tempo leavin' song called Wreck Of My Heart, which guitarist and lead singer Brandon Rickman says is a perfect fit
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Free Dirt Records to release Hazel & Alice kitchen tapes
New, previously-unreleased tracks from the dynamic bluegrass and old-time duo Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard are set for release later this year on Free Dirt Records. Today it is announced that Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 will
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Billy Blue Records signs Appalachian Road Show
Jerry Salley and Ed Leonard (standing) sign a contract with Darrell Webb and Barry Abernathy Billy Blue Records, the newly-formed bluegrass label headed by Jerry Salley and Ed Leonard, has signed their first artists, Appalachian Road Show, a new band project
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Ralph Stanley exhibit opens at the Country Music HoF & Museum
Ralph Stanley II takes the first look at the Ralph Stanley exhibit - photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images Last Thursday, July 12, the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville celebrated the opening of their new Ralph Stanley exhibit,