Archive for February 6th, 2008

CMT previews Plant / Krauss Crossroads show

Category: Bluegrass News, media clip

By Travis Tackett
February 6, 2008

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant photo by Pamela Springsteen
CMT.com has a preview of the highly anticipated Robert Plant and Alison Krauss episode of Crossroads available online. The show is set to air Feb. 11th on CMT at 7 P.M. CST.
The video clip is of “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” from the unlikely duo’s “Raising [...]

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White, Compton and Bouska holding Oregon Mandolin Workshop

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
February 6, 2008

Pickers in the Northwest might be interested in honing their mandolin and guitar skills in May when Roland White, Diane Bouska and Mike Compton present workshops and a concert at The Humane Society of Redmond Event Center in Redmond, Ore.
White will present a beginning mandolin class and his wife, Bouska, will teach a class [...]

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Music Historian John Work III to be celebrated with exhibition

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
February 6, 2008

Nashville, Tenn. — Fisk University scholar and music historian John Work III made invaluable contributions in preserving a richer, more detailed and ultimately more accurate view of the life of the black Delta community and the music that ran through it with his field recordings and work with Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress. [...]

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