Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The splendid archive.org has an edition of The Grand Ole Opry available to view / download. The link is http://www.archive.org/details/GrandOldOpry-28april1956 and the show features Host: Carl Smith - Guests include: Buddy Ebsen, Chet Atkins, Collins Kids, The Jordanaires, June Carter, Flatt and Scruggs, Minnie Pearl, etc. If you're interested in country, it's well worth a look.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
If you've ever played in any kind of half-assed blues band, which I did for a year or so (as a barely competent drummer), you know that the band has to have a half-assed blues band name. The one I played in was called the Sludge Brothers. The thinking was that "sludge" sounded authentic on some level; it also sounded like Flatt and Scruggs. A variation of this same band adopted a different...
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
<B>Power and Control</B> (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I had the honor of recording Flatt and Scruggs in Chicago around late '62 or early '63 with Sheldon Danielson the Chief Engineer for WFMT. The station later played excerpts on the Midnight Special program. At the time I had no idea who Flatt and Scruggs were. I was a city boy into rock and some folk. Country was not an interest of mine. I've developed a minor interest in it since then. I listened to...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
New York, NY /PRNewswire/ -- Legacy Recordings, the world's foremost catalog music label, is continuing its on-going digital reissue initiative with a round of classic album titles, from a variety of genres, to be released for the first time in the online digital realm this fall. Of interest to bluegrass music fans will be the Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs releases. ...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
/Randall Franks/ Bluegrass music star David Davis and his Warrior River Boys will be among the stars appearing at IBMA World of Bluegrass. The group will appear as an official showcase artist Sept. 29 at 10:05 p.m. as part of the event’s business conference at the Nashville Convention Center. For more information, visit www.ibma.org. ...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
This weekend, a group of local bands and performers are putting on a benefit show to erect a historical marker in front of Herzog Studios.
connecting*the*dots (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
DMP featured an evening of songwriters on June 25th at the Burro. Randy Furches and company began the night, singing stories of love and lives lost. He’s got a smoky vibrato almost like Huey Lewis, but trade the mass-produced sound of the News for plucked guitar. Furches is also a singer not afraid to open [...]
CWAnswers (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
Tom Thomas, the President of the Flatt and Scruggs Preservation Society, has announced the creation of a blog that will naturally focus on matters relating to Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Thomas said of his blog… “(It) will display any new information concerning upcoming appearances of Earl or any of the remaining Foggy Mountain Boys as well [...]
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Tom Thomas announced on the bluegrass list about his great new bluegrass web site -- The Flatt & Scruggs Blog Site. Tom announced, "In conjunction with the Flatt and Scruggs Preservation Society website, I have created a blog for everything Flatt and Scruggs. This will display any new information concerning upcoming appearances of Earl or any of the remaining Foggy Mountain Boys as well as...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/17/2009
At a Nashville bar, the Time Jumpers breath life into the Depression-era western swing sound.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/16/2009
At a Nashville bar, the Time Jumpers breath life into the Depression-era western swing sound.
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us. The Gibson Brothers - Eric on banjo, Leigh on guitar - began their musical journey at the age of 11 and 10 respectively. Eric began playing saxophone in the [...]
The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 04/27/2009
Just received : thanks to Sean Ó Beirne of Kilcar, Co. Donegal, for this information: Jerry Harmon is a native of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. He started his musical career in his teens. Among his early influences were Flatt and Scruggs, Hank Williams, and Ray Price. After years of local and regional performing, his first big break came in 1998 when he was invited to appear...
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