Archive for August 14th, 2007

CD Review: Tom T Hall – Tom T Hall Sings Miss Dixie and Tom T. (Blue Circle Records)

Category: CD Review

By Travis Tackett
August 14, 2007

It’s been nearly 10 long years since the world has been blessed with a new recording from “The Storyteller,” Tom T. Hall.
Thankfully, with the release of “Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T.,” the wait is finally over. And that decade of silence evidently was worthwhile, as Miss Dixie Hall writes [...]

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Spotlight: The Steeldrivers

Category: Bluegrass News, Spotlight

By Travis Tackett
August 14, 2007

The Steeldrivers
Nashville, Tennessee, that’s one tough town. Just ask any of the touring pros who’ve ever played a show there. Nashville folks tend to be a little bit spoiled when it comes to live music because they’re surrounded by some of the best in the world and they sometimes take it for granted. There are [...]

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Bison and Bill Monroe do mix

Category: Festival News

By Dan Tackett
August 14, 2007

Cast Iron Airplane
Buffalo and bluegrass?
That’s right — for the second year in a row at the Hidden Hill Nursery & Sculpture Garden, which describes itself as a unique mini-arboretum, sculpture gallery and unusual plant nursery in Utica, in Southern Indiana about 8 miles from Louisville.
It’s the business’s second annual Buffalo Bar-B-Que and Bluegrass Music Festival [...]

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West Virginia Music Hall of Fame announces inaugural inductees

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
August 14, 2007

Bluegrass, old-timey and traditional country music are at the forefront in the inaugural round of inductees into the new West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, which is located in the Cultural Center of the Capitol Complex in Charleston.Among the Hall’s first 10 inductees, announced earlier this month, are singer and songwriter Hazel Dickens, country singer [...]

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