It's a sure sign you're getting old when when a band that was a touchstone of your youth celebrates its 40th Anniversary. Old & In The Way formed in 1973, with Jerry Garcia on banjo, David Grisman on mandolin, Vassar Clements
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Pilot Of A Steam Powered Aereo-Plain
If you're a fan of the music of John Hartford - and I know there are a lot of you out there - you may want to have a look at Pilot Of A Steam Powered Aereo-Plain, a new book by
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Hartford, Rice and Clements
Here's one we missed when it was released in April, a recording by John Hartford, Tony Rice and Vassar Clements in 1988, with Roy Huskey Jr on bass and Mark Howard on mandolin. Titled simply Hartford, Rice and Clements, the album
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Carter Brothers – Road To Roosky
I spoke last week with Tim Carter, who filled me in on a new project he recently completed with his brother Danny as The Carter Brothers. You might think of Tim and Danny as the black sheep cousins of The Carter
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Rual Yarbrough passes
We are saddened to learn that banjo player Rual Yarbrough has passed away at 81 years of age. He had been ill of late, following a heart bypass a few years back, and passed away quietly at home Monday evening
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Masters of Bluegrass ’04 at Gathering Of The Vibes
The promoters of the Gathering Of The Vibes festival have come up with a clever way to get you to tune in for their live webcast tonight (4/2) when they announce this year's lineup. After the announcements, they will run a
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Classic Oak titles reissued
Long-time students of bluegrass instruments will recall with fondness the name Oak Publications, a division of Music Sales that released some fine instructional manuals for banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and bass starting in the 1970s. While the brand has remained
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WAMU 40th aniversary celebration
WAMU, and it's online sister station BluegrassCountry.org, are celebrating the summer of 2007 as their 40th year broadcasting bluegrass music. It was in 1967 that Dick Spottswood and Gary Henderson, who were among the founders of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine that
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McCoury/Vassar videos on MySpace
The Del McCoury Band has posted four new video clips on their MySpace page. They are taken from the second All Star Bluegrass Celebration concert at The Grand Ole Opry in April 2003, aired on PBS, and available on DVD
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Vassar Clements Holiday Band DVD – Reminder
Farley Daniel wrote in and reminded us about the Vassar Clements Holiday Band DVD release party on October 14th at the Melting Point in Athens, GA. A couple of guests have been included in the lineup for the evening's performance. Fiddle