Burlington, MA – More than a dozen Rounder Records recording artists will be performing at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s upcoming “World of Bluegrass” business conference and “Fan Fest” in Nashville, TN, October 1 – 7. The following is a list of scheduled performance times during the conference.

IIIrd Tyme Out
Friday 10/5 - 6:10 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
Monday 10/1 - 9:35-10:00 PM - Official IBMA Showcase - NCC
Monday 10/1 - 1:15 AM - Patuxent Music - NCC 104
Tuesday 10/2 - 12:00 AM - Emelin Theatre/NYCBluegrass.com - RN 3rd Floor Ryman 1 & 2
Tuesday 10/2 - 12:30 AM - Texas Alliance RN 2nd Floor Ballroom
Tuesday 10/2 - 1:30 AM - Pickin’ in Parsons & Roe Entertainment - NCC 202
Wednesday 10/3 - 11:00 PM - Colorado Case Company - NCC 203
Wednesday 10/3 - 12:45 AM - World International Bluegrass Band -NCC 105/106
Friday 10/5 - 1:30 PM - Grand Masters Fiddle Championship - NCC 209/210
Friday 10/5 - 3:00 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

J.D. Crowe & The New South
Thursday 10/4 - 8:30 PM - IBMA Awards Show - Grand Ole Opry House
Friday 10/5 - 4:30 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

Dailey & Vincent
Saturday 10/6 - 6:40 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
Wednesday 10/3 - 12:30 AM - An Evening of Old Time Music - RN 3rd Floor Ryman 1 & 2
Friday 10/5 - 1:00 PM - Fan Fest ROOTS & BRANCHES STAGE - RN Grand Ballroom

The Grascals
Tuesday 10/2 - 11:00 AM - New England Bluegrass Coalition - NCC 205
Thursday 10/4 - 8:30 PM - IBMA Awards Show - Grand Ole Opry House
Friday 10/5 - 5:30 PM - Grand Masters Fiddle Championship - NCC 205/206
Friday 10/5 - 10:30 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

Sierra Hull
Wednesday 10/3 - 8:30-8:55 PM - Official IBMA Showcase - NCC
Friday 10/5 - 11:30 AM - Grand Masters Mandolin Championship - NCC 209/210
Friday 10/5 - 12:30 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

Donna Hughes
Wednesday 10/3 - 5:30 PM - Hope River Entertainment BoothTrade Floor
Thursday 10/4 - 3:00 PM - Hope River Entertainment BoothTrade Floor
Saturday 10/6 - 11:00 AM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGENCC Lower Level
Saturday 10/6 - 3:30 PM - Masters Workshop StageNCC 209/210

James King Band
Tuesday 10/2 - 1:00 AM - South Florida Bluegrass Association - NCC 108
Sunday 10/7 - 10:40 AM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - RN Grand Ballroom

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Tuesday 10/2 - 11:00 PM - Argyle & Frisco Bluegrass Festivals - RN 2nd Floor Ballroom
Thursday 10/4 - 8:30 PM - IBMA Awards Show - Grand Ole Opry House
Friday 10/5 - 7:10 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

The Claire Lynch Band
Wednesday 10/3 - 9:30-9:55 PM - Official IBMA Showcase - NCC
Wednesday 10/3 - 11:00 PM - New England Bluegrass Coalition - NCC 205
Friday 10/5 3:00 - PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level
Friday 10/5 11:00 - PM - Gibson/First Quality Music - RN 3rd Floor Belmont

NewFound Road
Tuesday 10/2 - 11:00 PM - Pickin’ in Parsons & Roe Entertainment - NCC 202
Tuesday 10/2 - 12:00 AM - Colorado Case Company - NCC 203
Tuesday 10/2 - 1:00 AM - Tom T. and Dixie Hall Suite - NCC 209/210
Wednesday 10/3 - 10:35-11:00 PM- Official IBMA Showcase - NCC
Wednesday 10/3 - 1:00 AM - New England Bluegrass Coalition - NCC 205
Saturday 10/6 - 4:30 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

Alecia Nugent
Monday 10/1 - 1:00 AM - Colorado Case Company - NCC 203
Tuesday 10/2 - 9:00 PM - The Station Inn, 402 12th Ave S, Nashville
Tuesday 10/2 - 12:30 AM - Proulx Guitars & Mandolins - NCC 102
Wednesday 10/3 - 11:00 PM - Bluegrass Virginia - NCC 109
Wednesday 10/3 - 12:00 AM - Tom T. and Dixie Hall Suite - NCC 209/210
Friday 10/5 - 11:00 PM - Third Coast Artist Agency - NCC 207
Saturday 10/6 - 3:30 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level Dan Paisley & The Southern Grass
Monday 10/1 - 11:00 PM - Colorado Case Company - NCC 203
Monday 10/1 - 12:00 AM - DC Bluegrass Union - NCC 102
Tuesday 10/2 - 11:00 PM - Pickin’ in Parsons & Roe Entertainment - NCC 202
Tuesday 10/2 - 1:00 AM - Emelin Theatre/NYCBluegrass.com - RN 3rd Floor Ryman 1 & 2
Wednesday 10/3 - 9:00 PM - Official IBMA Showcase - NCC
Wednesday 10/3 - 12:00 AM - New England Bluegrass Coalition - NCC 205

Mark Schatz
Friday 10/5 - 4:30 PM - Masters Workshop Stage - NCC 209/210

Charlie Sizemore
Wednesday 10/3 - 11:00 PM - Bronzewound Bluegrass - NCC 107
Wednesday 10/3 - 11:35 PM - Good Home Grown Music - NCC 209/210
Wednesday 10/3 - 12:00 AM - Night Owl Suite - NCC 109
Wednesday 10/3 - 12:40 AM - Hope River Entertainment - NCC 102
Friday 10/5 - 12:00 AM - Third Coast Artist Agency - NCC 207
Saturday 10/6 - 12:00 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

The SteelDrivers
Monday 10/1 - 12:30 AM - DC Bluegrass Union - NCC 102
Monday 10/1 - 1:30 AM - Colorado Case Company - NCC 203
Tuesday 10/2 - 12:00 AM - Pickin’ in Parsons & Roe Entertainment - NCC 202
Tuesday 10/2 - 1:00 AM - Texas Alliance - RN 2nd Floor Ballroom
Wednesday 10/3 - 11:30 PM - New England Bluegrass Coalition - NCC 205
Wednesday 10/3 - 12:15 - AM World International Bluegrass Suite - NCC 105/106
Friday 10/5 - 12:45 AM - World International Bluegrass Suite - NCC 105/106
Saturday 10/6 - 1:00 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

Tony Trischka
Monday 10/1 - 1:00 AM - DC Bluegrass Union - NCC 102
Tuesday 10/2 - 11:00 AM - Emelin Theatre/NYCBluegrass.com - RN 3rd Floor Ryman 1 & 2
Wednesday 10/3 - TBD - Gibson/First Quality Music - RN 3rd Floor Belmont
Thursday 10/4 - 8:30 PM - IBMA Awards Show - Grand Ole Opry House
Friday 10/5 - 1:00 PM - Fan Fest ROOTS & BRANCHES STAGE - RN Grand Ballroom

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
Thursday 10/4 - 8:30 PM - IBMA Awards Show - Grand Ole Opry House

Bradley Walker
Wednesday 10/3 - 11:00 PM - Bluegrass Virginia - NCC 109
Thursday 10/4 - 8:30 PM - IBMA Awards Show - Grand Ole Opry House
Friday 10/5 - 11:30 PM - Third Coast Artist Agency - NCC 207
Saturday 10/6 - 5:00 PM - Fan Fest MAIN STAGE - NCC Lower Level

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Bobby Osborne

BluegrassJournal.com’s Bob Dieterlen caught up with Bobby Osborne at the Franklin, KY Music Festival September 7th.

Bobby was gracious enough to sit down and talk about his music - past, present and future…along with a glimpse back into the genre’s glory days when radio stations used bands live over the air and he also shared a great story about the Osborne Brothers playing for First Lady Pat Nixon’s birthday celebration as the White House.

If you missed part 1 yesterday you can view it here.

Bob Dieterlen – Who were some of your influences when you first started playing? Who were you listening to back then?

Bobby Osborne – Ernest Tubb. I was just a little guy and I listened to the Opry and heard Ernest Tubb and liked his singing. I started singing his songs… and learnin’ his songs.

At that time my voice was kinda low… I was about 16 and then it [my voice] changed. I’d still sing his songs but I’d sing them 8 notes higher than he did.

Then I heard Earl Scruggs play “Cumberland Gap” on the Opry one night with Monroe. When I heard that it put me right into were I’m at now.

Bob Dieterlen – Before it was actually called “Bluegrass” music. Where you were brought up, was that what you were accustomed to? The mountain music or what you would consider country music back then. Is that something you were listening to?

Bobby Osborne – No I think Bill Monroe, before Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt and Chubby Wise came with him. Lester came along in 1954 and Earl came along in 1945. Well being that Bill was from the Bluegrass State of Kentucky, he’d already named his group The Bluegrass Boys.

When Earl came in with the three-fingered style, that just wrapped it all up. That terminated it as “Bluegrass” music. I think that’s were it started and so many of the rest of us… that liked it… liked that sound, we just all learned to play that music. And I never did give up with it. Just kept goin’.

Bob Dieterlen - Who was the songwriter when the Osborne Brothers first started? Was it you or your brother?

Bobby Osborne – When we first started, neither of us. The first song I wrote was “Pain in my Heart” and I wrote that way before he and I got together. I was workin’ with a guy in the lonesome pine fiddlers, in Bluefield, West Virginia and we got to record it up there on little old Cozy Records out of Davis, West Virginia.

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs picked it up later and it became one of the standards of Bluegrass Music. That’s the only thing I wrote until Sonny and Me got together and came to Nashville. I got into writing some songs then.

Bob Dieterlen – What year did you consider the start of the the Osborne Brothers as a group?

Bobby Osborne – When I got out of the Marine Corp. in 1953. We had a little four piece band in Knoxville and we’ve always tried to have a band of some kind since then.

Bob Dieterlen – Did you play any radio shows back then?

Bobby Osborne – Oh yeah, that’s all you played! Radio shows and go out at night and work schools, schoolhouses. Come right back and do the program the next morning.

Saturday nights we’d play a place where they did round and square dancin’. We’d go play places like that. Sunday they had a bunch of parks up through there and we’d do that. We worked seven days a week.

Bob Dieterlen – What was your first tour vehicle? What’d you travel around in?

Bobby Osborne – Oh Goodness…I think I…uh…I believe I had a 53 Buick.. I think. [ laughin’]

Bob Dieterlen – Ain’t that something. A hard road.

Bobby Osborne – Well you know that’s all we had to go with then. So you had to make the best of what you had and it wasn’t near as hard as it would be now.

Tomorrow we will be running Part 3 of this Interview.

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Nashville, TN - Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time seize the bluegrass spotlight today with the release of their richly textured new album, Took Down And Put Up, on Lonesome Day Records. Apart from his distinctions as a singer and bandleader, Cordle is one of Nashville’s most revered songwriters. He boasts a gallery of hits that include George Strait and Alan Jackson’s “Murder On Music Row,” Ricky Skaggs’ “Highway 40 Blues,” Diamond Rio’s “Mama Don’t Forget To Pray For Me” and Garth Brooks’ “Against The Grain.”

“All the kinds of music I love are in here somewhere,” says Cordle, who also produced the album. “Whatever the inspiration, though, it all stays true to bluegrass.”

Took Down And Put Up features nine of Cordle’s compositions, among them “Rough Around The Edges,” his rip-roaring duet with Travis Tritt, and “Song For Keith,” a heartbreaking tribute to his boyhood friend, Keith Whitley. Cordle’s rural eastern Kentucky moorings stand out vividly in such homeward-looking ruminations as “Hole in the Ground,” “The Hero of the Creek” and the somber “A Visit with an Uncle.”

The first single from the new album will be Chris Stuart’s sinister and chilling ballad, “The First Train Robbery,” on which Cordle matches vocals with dobro-meister Randy Kohrs. Another gem in this sparkling collection is the band’s reworking of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s truculent “Mississippi Kid.” (In 2004, Cordle & LST devoted an entire album, “Lonesome Skynyrd Time,” to the Southern Rock titans.)

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Dillon Hodges 2007 National Flatpicking Champion

The 36th annual Walnut Valley Festival (Winfield, KS ) held September 13-16 has announced the winners from there highly acclaimed and revered instrumental contests. Congratulations to all of this years winners.

The dates for next year’s 37th Annual Walnut Valley Festival are September 17-21, 2008!

For more information about the festival go on line at www.wvfest.com or call the office at 620-221-3250. Tickets for the 2008 festival will go on sale in time for Christmas.

International Autoharp

1st Place - George Haig of Durifemline Fife Scotland
2nd Place - Tina Louise Barr of Modesto, CA
3rd Place - Craig Harrel of Houston, TX

International Fingerstyle Guitar

1st Place - Don Alder of Vancouver, BC Canada
2nd Place - Tim Thompson of Hendersonville, TN
3rd Place - Dan Bliss of Merriam, KS

National Mountain Dulcimer

1st Place - Joe Collins of Shelby, NC
2nd Place - Rob Pearcy of Smyrna, TN
3rd Place - Aaron Thornton of Carriere, MS

Walnut Valley Mandolin

1st Place - Solly Burton of Sullivan, IN
2nd Place - Dominick Leslie of Evergreen, CO
3rd Place - Brian Roe of Hasty, CO

Walnut Valley Old Time Fiddle

1st Place - Brook Wallace of Burleson, TX
2nd Place - Ellie Goodman of Edmond, OK
3rd Place - James Schlender of Bozeman, MT

National Flatpick Guitar

1st Place - Dillon Hodges of Florence AL
2nd Place - Carl Miner of Austin, TX
3rd Place - Roy Curry of Hixson, TN

National Hammer Dulcimer

1st Place - Stephen Humphries of Chapin, SC
2nd Place - Sam Wachtler of Colorado Springs, CO
3rd Place - Tina Gugeler of Erie, CO

National Bluegrass Banjo

1st Place - Mike Sumner of Interlochen, MI
2nd Place - Jason Ericsson of Natrona Heights, PA
3rd Place - Bret Martin of Auborn AL

Campsite Decorating Contest 2007

1st Place - Celtic Casbah
2nd Place - DoYaGotta Reservation
3rd Place - Dome Away From Home

Craft Contest Results

1st Place - Marc Kornbluh - Blown Glass
2nd Place - Roxy Callison - Cards
3rd Place - Greg & Mindy Rhoads - Pottery Pantry - Julie St. Peter - Pasta

Honorable Mention: Teresa Arnold, Shannon Cornfield, Dana Leake, Marc Meng, Rick Sampson, Jon Spaulding, Jack & Jason Stoddart

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