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• Flyer Profile: Greensky Bluegrass

  
  Fayetteville Flyer — Authority: 530
  In the bluegrass world, there aren’t many bands with more national momentum right now than Greensky Bluegrass from Kalamazoo, Mich. Greensky has played about 170 shows each year since 2006 and that road-dog mentality has paid off in a big way for the band. After winning the 2006 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band ...
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• Honky Tonky Happy Hour: Why I Won’t Be Watching The CMA Awards

  
  The 9513 — Authority: 522
  I haven’t watched the CMA awards in years. Sometimes I’ve had a gig, but most of the time, there wasn’t anything there to interest me. I would flip channels and land on the awards show, but wouldn’t stay long. In the 80s, I didn’t miss a show. All my favorite artists were on. Country had encountered a ...
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• Flatpicking Guitar picks up Bluegrass Now subscribers

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  We posted several times last year about the demise of Bluegrass Now , which had published continuosly for 18 years. Stung by the widespread downturn in print periodicals, publishers Wayne and Deb Bledsoe closed the magazine down after the December 2008 issue. Bluegrass Now tried going all-digital in March 2008, ...
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• Wilma Lee Cooper on WBIR

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  Thanks to Richard Thompson, who alerted us to this interview with Wilma Lee Cooper which ran last month on WBIR-TV in Knoxville, TN. At 88 years old, Wilma Lee is no longer active in the music world, particularly following her stroke in 2001, but is living comfortably near Knoxville. LaSaundra Brown of WBIR spoke ...
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• BMP – Women In Bluegrass 2009

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  Bluegrass Music Profiles is out with their 4th annual Women In Bluegrass issue, with Dale Ann Bradley gracing the cover. Since 2005, BMP has dedicated their November/December issue to the ladies, with both feature articles and regular columns focusing on the contributions of female bluegrass artists and ...
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• Rural Rhythm plans big 55th at Graves Mountain in 2010

  
  BluegrassJournal.com — Authority: 481
  The excitement (and hype) is building over the special events planned for next year at the Graves Mountain Festival of Music in Syria, Va. The festival will host “ Rural Rhythm’s 55-Year Celebration ” with a commemorative live recording taking place on Friday, June 4, 2010, during the festival. The recording ...
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• Lou Reid, Carolina hit top of magazine’s album chart

  
  BluegrassJournal.com — Authority: 481
  Lou Reid & Carolina "My Own Set of Rules" (Rural Rhythm Records) To say that Lou Reid and Carolina’s new CD is doing well might be an understatement. Entitled My Own Set of Rules and released on the Rural Rhythm label, the CD has reached the top of Bluegrass Music Profiles’ list of Top 10 Bluegrass ...
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• Dr. Banjo Presents 25th Anniversary of Winter Banjo Camps January, 2010

  
  Dirty Linen Newsfeed — Authority: 118
  Renowned banjo player and teacher, Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick will offer his 25th Anniversary Winter Banjo Camps January, 2010 at the Boulder Inn in Boulder, Colorado. Each of the three “full immersion” weeks is geared to different experience levels. For complete information, visit www.DrBanjo.com . The 2010 ...
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• MerleFest Announces Line-Up, Tickets On Sale Tomorrow!

  
  Dirty Linen Newsfeed — Authority: 118
  MerleFest 2010 , presented by Lowe’s and slated for April 29 -May 2, is proud to announce the line up for the event’s 23rd year.  The following artists will join host Doc Watson on the campus of Wilkes Community College for a celebration of “traditional-plus” music­a term Doc coined to describe the unique ...
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• Grasstowne Releases The Other Side of Towne

  
  Dirty Linen Newsfeed — Authority: 118
  Grasstowne ’s lead singer, Steve Gulley , is hoping their cleverly titled brand new sophomore release, The Other Side of Towne , does just what this band of veteran players intended for it to do when they were recording the project – define who Grasstowne is as a band and solidify their indentifiable ...
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• Dixie Chick Emily Robison’s Texas Loft: Celebrity Real Estate

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 142
  The country stringer and her sister, Martie Maguire, originally developed the Dixie Chicks in 1989 with a few other talented gals they had met on the country scene, but it is when they hit the stage with lead singer, Natalie Maines, that they became the country phenomenon they are today. Honing her love of instruments ...
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• Leadership Bluegrass 2010

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  Just a reminder that applications for Leadership Bluegrass 2010 are due this week. Completed applications must be received by Friday, November 13, and forms can be found on the IBMA web site . This 3 day program (March 9-11) brings together people from a wide swath of the bluegrass world for a unique, guided, ...
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• Discovered: The Honey Dewdrops

  
  Crib Notes — Authority: 138
  A helping of bluegrass relief at the Chomp and Stomp
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• Grassers in Bach and Friends

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  What happens when a bluegrass banjo player makes a documentary film about a legendary 18th century composer? The result with Michael Lawrence is Bach and Friends , due for DVD release early in 2010. The film looks at the timeless music of Johann Sebastian Bach through the eyes of 21st century musicians in a ...
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• Nothin’ Fancy’s Tony Shorter wows the crowd.

  
  BluegrassJournal.com — Authority: 481
  The ever-smiling Tony Shorter of Nothin’ Fancy wows the crowd with his charm and crooner voice Friday during this past weekend’s indoor bluegrass festival at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield, Ill. Other members of the group, two-time winners of SPBGMA’s Entertaining Group of the Year award, are, from left, ...
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• Rhonda and Willie at The Ryman

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  Rhonda Vincent had a concert this past Thursday (11/5) at The Ryman in Nashville, opening for Willie Nelson. The show was part of Willie’s current tour in support of his latest CD, American Classic , released in August of this year. It’s a collection of standards and show tunes in his inimitable style. Rhonda ...
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• The Big E comes down

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  IBMA old-timers will remember The Executive Inn in Owensboro, KY where the first 10 years of World Of Bluegrass were held. It is often recalled as smaller, yes, but more intimate, with the experience of the music ringing up through the open atrium at all hours, day and night. The event outgrew Owensboro quickly, and ...
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• Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain at the Greater Downstate Indoor Bluegrass Festival

  
  BluegrassJournal.com — Authority: 481
  The McKinnon twins — Keith on guitar and Kevin on mandoln — fllank Carrie Hassler Friday at the Greater Downstate Bluegrass Festival in Springfield, Ill. Hassler and her band, Hard Rain , performed two shows during the weekend event. Big names, including Rhonda Vincent, Doyle Lawson, Nothin’ Fancy and ...
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• Dogcast! Under The Dog Podcast #4

  
  Under The Dog — Authority: 106
  Sorry for the delay, things have been KARAZY! Indie hip-hop hardcore and metal about in this weeks episode of the dogcast!
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• CD Review: The Asylum Street Spankers – God’s Favorite Band

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 470
  Things like this happen with bands who’ve been around awhile and have the good sense to record themselves in fortuitous circumstances. Back in 2006, the Asylum Street Spankers – the world’s smartest, most deliriously fun oldtimey Americana band – recorded some live performances at the Saxon Pub in their ...
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