Acoustic Highway and Pickin Celebrate Mom This Weekend
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Acoustic Highway.. Bluegrass greats like Jim and Jesse McReynolds, Red Allen, Lynn Morris, Ralph Stanley play tribute to Mom with standards like “Mother Prays Loudly in her Sleep” and “Dear Old Mother.” Its two solid hours of songs about Mom and memories of home. Then, at 9:00 PM mom continues to take center stage on the
Acoustic Highway. We’ll hear from Cathy Ryan, Darrel Scott, The Austin Lounge Lizards with their hilarious tribute “Forty years Old and Living in My Mom’s Garage,” along with plenty of others. Call Mom, tell her how much you appreciate her, and tune in Sunday night beginning at 7:00 here on WHRV.
Donald Teplyske | May 1, 2021
Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records
by Bill Nowlin Equinoxpub.com 2020
Imagine starting a record company in 2021with next to no business experience nor a background, beyond listening, in music. Oh, and launch that label with an album from an obscure North Carolinian banjo player. A daunting, even foolish proposition?
I m not sure it was different in 197O when three just-out-of-college friends, leftovers from the first generation of hippies and counter-culture types, decided to launch Rounder Records, a label that became synonymous with traditional and contemporary roots music over the next half-century. Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records isn t likely to appeal to the masses. While he has an engaging, personable, and readable writing style, Bill Nowlin one of those three original Rounder founders tends to occasionally get bogged down in the minutiae of ledger sheets (which, for this reader, undoubtedly provi
Smithsonian Folkways Celebrates the Worldwide Release of Industrial Strength Bluegrass gratefulweb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gratefulweb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Article Contributed by East Public Re… | Published on Sunday, February 21, 2021
Smithsonian Folkways celebrates the golden age of Bluegrass music in Southwest Ohio with the release of Industrial Strength Bluegrass on March 26. The second single, Family Reunion featuring the Queen of Bluegrass Rhonda Vincent and bluegrass music s rising star, Caleb Daugherty releases today.
Industrial Strength Bluegrass is the story of bluegrass’ transformation from a music to a movement, carried north by Appalachians seeking a better life in the booming post-WWII factories of Southwest Ohio. The 16-song collection was produced by IBMA Award-winning musician/bandleader Joe Mullins, whose father - fiddler and radio personality Paul “Moon” Mullins - made that journey and helped found the region’s bluegrass scene. The compilation (companion to the new book of the same title from University of Illinois Press) presents Southwest Ohio bluegrass classics remade by an all-star cast feat
The Portfolio: Geoff Dyer
5 Feb 2021
Extended duration: In But Beautiful Geoff Dyer reflects on this image of jazz musicians Ben Webster, Red Allen and Pee Wee Russell. Photo: Milt Hilton
Photographs sometimes work on you strangely and simply: at first glance you see things you subsequently discover are not there. Or rather, when you look again you notice things you initially didn’t realise were there.
In Milt Hinton’s photograph of Ben Webster, Red Allen and Pee Wee Russell, for example, I thought that Allen’s foot was resting on the chair in front of him, that Russell was actually drawing on his cigarette, that …