The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Rounder has shipped the CD version of Earl Scruggs with Family & Friends, The Ultimate Collection - Live at the Ryman, first released digitally on September 30 of this year. It features Scruggs with his sons Gary on bass/vocals and Randy on guitar, along with Rob Ickes on resonator guitar, Hoot Hester on fiddle, John Jorgenson [...]
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Burlington, MA -- American music icon Earl Scruggs helped give birth to bluegrass music when he first appeared on the legendary stage of Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 1945. Another historic night for Scruggs came in 2007 when he headlined his first-ever Ryman concert. Rounder Records is proud to announce the release of that concert – The Ultimate Collection/Live at the Ryman...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Santelli, a former rock music critic who has held curatorial positions with the Experience Music Project in Seattle and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and chief curator Ken Viste noted that the Grammy Museum has focused on acquiring items associated with icons: the trumpets of Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, the guitars of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, the banjos of Pete Seeger and Earl...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Brisbame, CA -- Recording King has signed young bluegrass legend-in-the-making Lizzy Long to endorse the all-new Century Jubilee Series acoustic guitars.Lizzy Long has already made quite a name for herself in the world of Bluegrass. She began her career working with Earl Scruggs and Little Roy Lewis and is one of the torchbearers for a new generation of Bluegrass icons. She is widely...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Tickets for the event, which is produced by Goldenvoice, the Messina Group and Moore Entertainment Group, go on sale Nov. 14. The initial lineup for Stagecoach also features Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert, Poco, Charlie Daniels Band, Darius Rucker, Earl Scruggs, Chris Cagle, Lady Antebellum, Reverend Horton Heat, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ricky Skaggs, Ralph Stanley, Lynn Anderson, Doyle...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... summer of 2007 was spent touring with the Dixie Chicks. He is getting ready to hit the road with Earl Scruggs for some Canadian dates. Nashvillians rarely get a chance to head out to a local venue for the evening and enjoy his playing so this will be a treat indeed. With Andy Leftwich, Rob Ickes and Dave Pomeroy on stage as well as Sewell, it promises to be one of those rare evenings...
Culture Bully (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
... his garage to Leo Kottke. When I started on banjo, my education was from the records of my heroes; Earl Scruggs to Bela Fleck and everyone in between. Over the years I’ve studied with other players, learned theory and technique; but have found that I’ve learned more from spending an afternoon picking with the Swsco. guys or with other local players. What makes Swsco. functional as...
