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Merle Haggard

  • Bobby Osborne covers Merle Haggard on White Line Fever

    March 26, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Bobby Osborne with Alison Brown of Compass Records at Bonnaroo in 2017 - photo by Jay Blakesburg Compass Records also has a new single out today, a bluegrass cover of the great Merle Haggard's White Line Fever, sung by the legendary

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  • Hats off to Haggard – JD Crowe & Rickey Wasson

    July 2, 2019 | by John Curtis Goad

    There are many country artists whose songs and style have impacted bluegrass music throughout the years, but perhaps none more than Merle Haggard. These days, it’s rare to find a bluegrass band – especially those in the more neo-traditional, hard-driving

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  • Kentucky Gambler drops for J.D. Crowe & Rickey Wasson

    August 27, 2018 | by John Lawless

    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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  • Rhonda goes all Hag on us for election day

    November 8, 2016 | by John Lawless

    As Americans line up at the polls today to choose our next President, one gets the idea that half of the country feels like we could do just fine without the other half. And the other half returns the sentiment in

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  • Mama Tried – single release from Rhonda Vincent

    May 2, 2016 | by John Lawless

    Rhonda Vincent has today released a new single to radio, her bluegrass version of the Merle Haggard classic, Mama Tried. Like so many country and bluegrass artists, Rhonda had been a lifelong Haggard fan, and had the opportunity to meet and

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  • Merle Haggard, R.I.P.

    April 6, 2016 | by John Lawless

    I'm sure most of our readers have heard by now of the passing of the great Merle Haggard today, departing on his 79th birthday. As is appropriate, the news is a major media story in the entertainment industry. Such was

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XV: California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)

    May 27, 2015 | by Daniel Mullins

    Yesterday, May 26th, it has been 82 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six short years, “The

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  • Rhonda and the Hag – meant to be

    February 6, 2015 | by Guest Contributor

    This bluegrass story of coincidence and kismet comes from the Queen of Bluegrass herself, Rhonda Vincent, about how she came to finally meet one of her idols, the great Merle Haggard. On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

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  • Introducing the Cherry Pickers

    May 14, 2013 | by John Lawless

    The Cherry Pickers are a new young bluegrass group in the San Francisco, CA area featuring Isaac Cantor on banjo, Riley HIll on guitar, Rich Kearns on mandolin, and Leo Suarez on bass. Their goal is to write and record their own music, walking the

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  • Rhonda on George Jones

    April 27, 2013 | by Guest Contributor

    Rhonda Vincent shared this lovely remembrance of the late George Jones, which she has also published on her web site. I sit here overcome with sadness, as the news of the passing of George Jones seems to overwhelm my every thought. A

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