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SLV Dweller (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, Colorado’s newest scenic train, kicks off a new season of trips on May 24, and begins a countdown to the return of its popular High Altitude Concert Series on July 17. In its second year, the train's mountain concerts feature the return of legendary cowboy poet and Western Music Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Martin Murphey, along with country and bluegrass singer Ricky...
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Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... really are way too many to list. You'll find a similar roster on the country side--Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Monroe, Dwight Yoakam, and many more. New concerts are added regularly. It's pretty cool to listen to a legendary show, like the Allman Brothers' Fillmore East performance, and compare with to another show from around the same time period--or to hear a band like Fleetwood...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... as well as alt-country and pop, including Ryan Adams, Bela Fleck, the Swell Season, Tift Merritt, Ricky Skaggs and others. Catch the entire lineup at . Driving music: It's a long trek, so you're gonna need more than one album. Try "Once," the movie soundtrack featuring the Swell Season; "Demolition," by Ryan Adams; or Merritt's "Another Country." And for a little background: Skaggs'...
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Today (5/6) marks the official release of Secrets, Sierra Hull's debut on Rounder. This sixteen year old wunderkind has been wowing audiences for at least the past six years, sitting in with leading artists like Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Ricky Skaggs and Mountain Heart, and with her own road band Highway 111. I first saw her [...]
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Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Song set includes June Carter Cash in three duets with Cash. A guy that NPR thought worthy to use as a replacement for Daniel Schorr the other day. XHTML You can use these tags lt. The United States should clearly Brad pitt angelina jolie picture a declaratory policy that it reserves the right to respond with the strongest measures including removal of those leaders from power. RICKY SKAGGS...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
... song of the year. Cindy Morgan won the songwriter of the year award – her eighth Dove trophy – and Ricky Skaggs and the Whites collected bluegrass recorded song honors for “Salt of the Earth.” – Associated PressTaking measure of pope's visit to U.S. NEW YORK – The crowd of 25,000 Roman Catholics burst into cheers when Pope Benedict XVI took the stage for a youth rally during his U.S....
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Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Bluegrass traditionalists are still in shock over a 2007 album collaboration between bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs and free-wheeling pianist Bruce Hornsby. Pianos typically are not welcome additions to the acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, fiddles and upright basses of bluegrass bands, and I was inclined to agree until the Dear Friend & Conscience and I heard Hornsby and Skaggs...
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People (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Eight simultaneous music festivals are taking place on Earth Day in major parks in D.C., N.Y.C., Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Among those performing are The Neville Brothers, Ricky Skaggs, Menudo, Arrested Development, Ziggy Marley, members of The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and even Tommy Lee of Motley Crue.– K.C. Baker
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
... Brown at Fair Park in Dallas. And improbably, perhaps, that means the bluegrass and country star Ricky Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park.“We made a conscious decision to cast a much wider net than most people would expect, in terms of booking the artists and genres this year,” Mr. Shapiro, the event’s executive producer and founder, said in...
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Christian Music Fan (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
... This year’s Dove Awards will also feature “Opry at the Doves,” a special performance showcasing Ricky Skaggs and The Whites, Charlie Daniels with Third Day’s Mac Powell, The Isaacs, Angella Christie, The Hoppers, Jeff and Sheri Easter and Karen Peck and New River. XM’s broadcast of the 39 th Annual Dove Awards will air live on XM 32 from 8-10 p.m. ET on Wednesday, April 23. Now, I...
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The New York Observer's MondoWeiss (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Pope Scope, Pt. 2 Oops—it’s actually Earth Day , Charlie Brown! Spoiled private-school children empty out of uptown co-ops, get miserably high and proceed to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park for an celebration that includes a performance by Ricky Skaggs and Big Head Todd & the Monsters (Diana Ross it ain’t) not to mention—oh, dear— “family planting and mulching projects.” The real question...
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ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... Year Natalie Grant with country icon Wynonna, 19 Recordings/Jive Recording Artist Jordin Sparks; Ricky Skaggs and The Whites and Point Of Grace with Cindy Morgan are the latest performers added to the increasingly luminous line-up for the 39th Annual GMA Dove Awards telecast, according to the Gospel Music Association (GMA) and Gospel Music Channel (GMC). Gospel and Christian music’s...
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HRS News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... *The National Anthem with Jordin Sparks *Acoustic performance with O.A.R. NEW YORK (Central Park) Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Big Head Todd and the Monsters The Bacon Brothers Vusi Mahlasela Vienna Teng SAN FRANCISCO (Golden Gate Park) Mickey Hart’s Mass Drums (with Jon Fishman of Phish and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue) Yonder Mountain String Band Brett Dennen MIAMI (Bicentennial...
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CMT News (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
... Country: The Golden Age of Country Music, a multi-artist package making its entrance at No. 11, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder's Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947, twanging into the No. 29 slot and Justin Townes Earle's The Good Life, surfacing at No. 70. Earle is the son of singer-songwriter Steve Earle.Besides Swift at No. 1 and Adkins at No. 3, Alan Jackson's...
