A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs

Foggy Mountain Special

Rounder Records has announced the release date of a new compilation album called Foggy Mountain Special: A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs.  The release date is to be the 5th June 2012. Earl Scruggs almost single-handedly perfected and popularized the rolling, three-finger banjo technique (“Scruggs Style”) that has become the signature sound of bluegrass. Over a [...]

Vale Douglas Dillard 1937 – 2012

Dillards

Banjo player Doug Dillard, from the ledgendary band The Dillards has passed away this week in Nashville after a long illness. Doug was 75 years old. Doug originally started playing guitar at age (5) and he picked up his first banjo as a Christmas present from mom and dad at the age of (15). In 1956 Doug [...]

World of Bluegrass Moves to Raleigh

Raleigh Convention Center

The IBMA Board of Directors have recently announced plans to move World of Bluegrass events to Raleigh, North Carolina for the next three years, 2013-2015. World of Bluegrass Week includes the four-day IBMA Business Conference, the International Bluegrass Music Awards Show, and the three-day Bluegrass Fan Fest. The annual industry summit/ bluegrass family reunion draws [...]

New Bluegrass and Old Heartaches

Bobby Osborne

Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce the release New Bluegrass and Old Heartaches by Bobby Osborne and The Rocky Top X-press.  The album was produced by Glen Duncan, Bobby Osborne and Boj (Bobby Osborne, Jr.) and contains new and old songs that will surely delight Bobby’s fans worldwide and celebrate his impressive 60 year career. Highlights [...]

8 Days of Bluegrass at Bean Blossom 2012

Bean Blossom

This Mecca of Bluegrass Includes 8 Big Days of Entertainment with Over 55 Bands. The 46th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival will be held from the 9th to the 16 June, 2012 at the Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Music Park & Campground in Bean Blossom (Brown County), Indiana.  The 8-day event includes [...]

Music Making May Help in Old Age

StockPhoto

Here is an interesting article that arrived this morning from the World Science website about music making that may help keep the mind in tune in our old age thanks to Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Long­time play­ing of a mu­si­cal in­stru­ment may help keep your mind [...]

Everett Lilly RIP

Everett Lilly

News from the USA this morning is that West Virginia bluegrass legend Everett Lilly has died at age 87. The Washington Post reports that Lilly’s son, Daniel, says his father died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Clear Creek, West Virginia’s Raleigh County. Everett Lilly and his brother, Bea, began their professional career in 1938 [...]

My Name Is Jimmy Martin

RayEdwards

Rural Rhythm Records has announced the new single release, My Name Is Jimmy Martin (Do You Remember Me?) from the upcoming album, Portrait Of a Bluegrass Songwriter by Ray Edwards & Hard Rock Mountain. Marty Raybon, Russell Moore, Darrell Webb, Lou Reid, Christy Reid and Ray Edwards all contribute their vocal talents to the new [...]

Help Pick LRB’s Top Five Songs

Lonesome River Band

Lonesome River Band is asking for your help. In recognising how supportive fans have been to LRB, they are asking the fans to decide which songs should appear their next album which will be called Chronology Vol Three. The album will be released this Fall on Rural Rhythm Records.  As we have written here previously [...]

Bluegrass By Putumayo

Putumayo

Putumayo announces the May 22nd release of Bluegrass, an engaging collection featuring many of the genre’s most renowned artists along with exciting new discoveries.  The album is Putumayo’s first venture into the world of bluegrass and includes Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Peter Rowan, David Grisman and other stars along with some of today’s up-and-coming young groups [...]

2 Days Remain For Fundraiser

Porchlight

News from The Porchlight Sessions, Bluegrass Music Documentary – there are now less than two days of active fundraising left with 96% of the project now funded. These finishing funds will allow the project to license and restore archival footage, photographs, and music, to create a documentary that will serve as a great resource to [...]

James King Hospitalised

James King

Those regular Harrietville festival goers will remember James King and his talented band’s visit here in 2004. Julie King (James’ wife) has just advised that James King will be out of commission for a while as he battles Deep Vein Thrombosis. James is currently under the care of a vascular surgeon with his left leg [...]