Archive for December 2007

Steve Gulley’s holiday adventure — on ice

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
December 20, 2007

Editor’s note: We’ve met and visited with a lot of wonderful people in the bluegrass world in the past few years, and especially in the last six months that we’ve been involved in our Web site. We asked a handful of some memorable people we’ve visited with over the past year and invited them to [...]

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Tim Hensley’s Long Monday Is Connecting with Bluegrass Radio

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By Travis Tackett
December 20, 2007

Tim Hensley
Nashville, Tenn — When Kenny Chesney decided to make a bluegrass record on his friend and bandmate Tim Hensley, it wasn’t about chart position or units sold. Instead, the Luttrell, Tennessean wanted to capture the magic of the post-show bluegrass jams that fill up the hours following the triple Country Music Association and three [...]

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Tyminski shakes dust off his old band

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By Dan Tackett
December 20, 2007

Dan Tyminski Band
With Alison Kraus’s Union Station on hiatus for most of 2008, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist DanTyminski is stepping back into his own arena.
He’s formed a new incarnation of the Dan Tyminski Band, with whom he is currently recording a new album and preparing a national tour of festivals, arts centers, and listening rooms.
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Donna Hughes remembers her Dad, Thomas Edwin Hughes

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
December 19, 2007

Editor’s note: We’ve met and visited with a lot of wonderful people in the bluegrass world in the past few years, and especially in the last six months that we’ve been involved in our Web site. We asked a handful of some memorable people we’ve visited with over the past year and invited them to [...]

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Spears joins Parmley’s band

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
December 18, 2007

Mandolin player and in-your-face bluegrass singer Ron Spears has joined David Parmley’s Continental Divide.
Spears played mandolin for Greg Cahill’s Special Consensus and left the group about a year ago to join Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, a move that didn’t work out. Spears spent the summer driving tourist and band buses in Nashville before accepting [...]

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