Archive for December 2007

Travis Tackett’s Best CDs of 2007

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
December 29, 2007

2007 has been a great year for bluegrass music and a bunch of great discs were released. I’ve consumed more music since we launched BluegrassJournal.com six months ago than I have in the last 2 years. Of all the CDs I’ve listened to this year, there’s a handful that continually find there way back to [...]

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Rickey Lamb’s Best CDs of 2007

Category: Bluegrass News

By Rickey Lamb
December 29, 2007

What a wonderful year for great music! When asked my three favorite bluegrass CDs from the year, I put a great deal of thought into it. It’s incredibly hard to pick three from all the incredible music, especially in the bluegrass genre, that has been released the last 12 months. Here goes.
Jim [...]

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The Steeldrivers (Rounder Records)

Category: CD Review

By Travis Tackett
December 28, 2007

Of all the CDs that have been slated for an upcoming release, The Steeldrivers self-titled debut on Rounder couldn’t find it’s way into my mailbox soon enough. I first heard some sound bites on The Steeldrivers Web site about 2 or 3 months ago and in that time I’ve gone back to their site a [...]

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Before you hang up your jingle bells …

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
December 28, 2007

… We have a final holiday treat for you. Actually, Gibson, the well known maker of fine acoustic instruments, has the treat for you. It’s tailor-made for the true-blue bluegrasser.
And, thanks to Greg Cahill of Special Consensus for passing this along. Have a look by clicking [...]

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Bluegrass on the Grand Ole Opry this week

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
December 27, 2007

Dailey & Vincent, the highly-anticipated new bluegrass duo on Rounder Records, will make their Grand Ole Opry debut on the December 29th show at the Ryman Auditorium.
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have performed on the Opry several times before—Jamie as lead vocalist for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Darrin as a member of Ricky Skaggs’ [...]

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