Lady Of Tradition Receives A Key

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Bluegrass’ Lady of Tradition, Lorraine Jordan and banjo player for IIIrd Tyme Out, Steve Dilling, were presented the key to the city of Garner, NC on 31st December, 2011.  Both musicians live in nearby Raleigh, NC. The band leader for Carolina Road, Jordan, performed with her band alongside label mates, Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme [...]

Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen On Tour 2012

HillmanPedersen

Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen are touring various dates in Australia in March this year. Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen have had a lasting musical friendship spanning over forty- five years, since their first meeting in Los Angeles during the early folk and bluegrass movement. In the summer of 1964, Hillman put down his mandolin [...]

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No Turning Back CD Review

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Lonesome River Band – No Turning Back. This band of young players from Virginia originally formed in 1983 but has experienced a few personnel changes over the years. A major change occurred in 2001. When I reviewed LRB’s 2002 release “Window of Time,” that included a new, debut lineup of Sammy Shelor (banjo), Brandon Rickman [...]

Bearfoot Needs Your Vote on CMT

Bearfoot

News from Compass Records: “Tell Me A Story” from Bearfoot’s new album American Story, is being featured on CMT and we need your votes to get the video in the 12-Pack Countdown! Vote for their video here.  (No email or login info required, vote as many times as you want) As special thanks for your [...]

Jerry Garcia Reflection

Jerry Garcia

Acoustic Guitar Magazine takes a look at the Grateful Dead guitarist’s influential acoustic style, which reflected his love of roots music, bluegrass, and modal jazz. While the article provides some insight into his guitar style and a useful lesson, is also offers up some background on his early life. The article explores some of Garcia’s [...]

Monroe’s Mill

Monroe's Mill

We were made aware of this band this week, who are to appear at the Alexandra Truck Ute and Rod Show in Victoria on 12th June 2011.  The 2011 Alexandra Truck, Ute and Rod Show will be the fourteenth annual staging of the event and this year is destined to be one of the biggest, [...]

New EP For Dear Orphans

The Dear Orphans

The Dear Orphans been busy the last month or so finalising their new EP Midnight at Annandale. The EP is inspired by an amazing group of Australia’s most selfless musicians – the welcoming folk at Sydney’s Bluegrass and Traditional Country Music Society. Nick Payne writes: These folk meet the first Saturday of the month at [...]

Danny Booth Heads to Dirty Kitchen

Danny Booth

Bluegrass favorites Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen are excited to announce the addition of bass player Danny Booth to their band’s official lineup.  Booth, originally from Anchorage, AK has played with  Spring Creek from Colorado for over a year.  Prior to Spring Creek, he played with Kathy Kallick and his own band, 49 Special.  FS&DK [...]

Sounds of Home Charts for Blue Highway

Blue Highway - Sounds of Home

News from Rounder Records: Blue Highway’s new album, Sounds of Home, has four songs in the top 10 of the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart – I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down at #1, Drinking From a Deeper Well at #4, If You’ve Got Something to Say at #5, and Bluebird Days at #8. [...]

Noam Pikelny Funny or Die Video

We received this email from Compass Records this week noting the release of the Funny or Die Video, featuring Steve Martin, Ed Helms, Noam Pikelny, Earl Scruggs, Gill. As you can tell from the video, renowned banjo player Noam Pikelny’s new Compass Records album Beat the Devil and Carry A Rail narrowly escapes creative failure [...]

Paul Kramer Joins Charlie Sizemore Band

Paul Kramer

The Charlie Sizemore Band has announced the addition of award-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Paul Kramer on fiddle. A native Chicagoan, Paul began his career with Special Consensus before moving to Nashville in 1988.  His impressive resume includes a songwriting deal with Mel Tillis’ publishing company as well as touring and recording with Lorrie Morgan, [...]

Stetson and Cia

Stetson and Cia

Some time ago we brought news of the Cherryholmes Family Band winding up. We have since heard that the two brothers BJ and Skip, went on to form a duo. Cia Cherryholmes we have discovered has  teamed up with singer songwriter Stetson Adkisson, to create a project focusing on acoustic music, uncluttered with electronics or [...]