Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Audie Blaylock and Redline will perform at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA November 14, 2009. The event is sponsored by the Boston Bluegrass Union and also includes a performance by Darren Beachley and the Legends of the Potomac. Audie Blaylock & Redline will be performing songs from their self-titled new album on Rural Rhythm Records, produced by Audie Blaylock. ...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Pinecastle has announced February 2010 as the release date for the next John Williams album, Down Home, but Josh says that he will have copies for sale from his web site by Thanksgiving. This will be the third solo CD for this young artist, who at 29 has already logged lengthy stints with Special Consensus and [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
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Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
A wallet was stolen from an employee's unlocked car at Sonic Drive-In, North Main Street, between 6:30 p.m. Monday and shortly after midnight Tuesday, the Shelbyville Police Department said. The...
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -- the iconic and profoundly influential group often cited as the catalysts for an entire movement in country and roots music -- have finished work on their first studio album in five years, 'Speed of Life.'...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Nashville, TN -- Ten years ago, when fiction writer and music critic Tom Piazza's True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin first came out, Piazza joked that the book should have been published with extra blank pages in the back so that the reader could include his or her own Jimmy Martin experience, since everyone who was a Jimmy Martin fan had one that was just as entertaining as the...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
For over 25 years, the Whitewater Bluegrass Company of Asheville, North Carolina, has captivated audiences throughout the southeast with a blend of bluegrass music, country ballads, mountain swing, and down-home humor. With Whitewater, mountain culture is a celebration of music, song, and dance. ...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
The unpleasant infighting among the children of Jimmy Martin over his estate, an open secret for years within the bluegrass community, has hit the mainstream media. The Tennessean, Nashville’s hometown newspaper, has published a story on the ongoing legal battle over Martin’s reputed $2 million estate, and income from future royalties. As has happened so many [...]
WAAY - WAAY News and Home (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Associated Press - August 30, 2009 2:05 PM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Four years after his death, bluegrass singer Jimmy Martin's children are still arguing over terms of his will.
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Nashville, TN -- IBMA is proud to announce the nominees for the 20th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, hosted by Grammy-winning country artist Kathy Mattea and the legendary bluegrass band, Hot Rize, on Thursday, October 1, 2009, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. ...
The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Thanks to Martin McWhorter , who reports: Well Enough Alone , a brand new bluegrass band coming together in Dublin, will be playing at Bewley's Theatre (upstairs from the cafe), Grafton Street, Dublin 2, on Thursday 27 August at 8.00 p.m. along with Oil and Blood , a Dublin-based Americana/country/southern-rock outfit. The band's MySpace site at present lists Martin himself and Hugh Dean Taggart (guitar)....
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
From motel and clothing-related busts in Laredo to suspiciously arbitrary shootings in Reno, there's a long and storied history of great songs about problematic Western locales, and on the first track of their new album Nitty Gritty Dirt Band kick off with what may be the newest hit addition to the canon -- with the rowdy, rollicking, and roadhouse-evoking "Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble To Me."...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper are proud to announce the addition of IBMA multi-award winner Tom Adams to the band. Adams will be taking on lead vocal and guitar duties with IBMA's 2-time Instrumental Group Of The Year. ...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
TO the majority of players being put through their paces in training last night, the old man who stood on the touchline, watching their every move intently, might have been just another keen spectator.
The Selma Times-Journal (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
The owner of a 1991 Cadillac Brougham taken during a 2006 narcotics raid by the Selma Police Department ...
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