Archive for June 10th, 2008

The Infamous Stringdusters up the ante on new Sugar Hill Release

Category: CD Review

By Travis Tackett
June 10, 2008

The Infamous Stringdusters - “The Infamous Stringdusters” (Sugar Hill Records)
The Infamous Stringdusters stunned the bluegrass world at last years IBMA awards. The ‘Dusters, you might recall, took home the awards for Emerging Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and they also recorded the IBMA’s “Song of the Year” which was the [...]

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Rounder releasing Tony Rice compilation disc “Night Flyer…” August 5

Category: CD Release

By Travis Tackett
June 10, 2008

Rounder records will release a Tony Rice disc titled “Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection” August 5. Photo by Thomas Stout.
Burlington, MA— No other guitarist in the last thirty years has had a greater impact on acoustic music than Tony Rice. The new Rounder compilation, Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection, due August 5, contains a [...]

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Homemade Hillbilly Jam documentary DVD featuring Big Smith, The Baldknobbers drops June 24

Category: CD Release

By Travis Tackett
June 10, 2008

Homemade Hillbilly Jam, a documentary, will be released on DVD june 24.
In the 1800s a scrappy group of Scotch-Irish immigrants settled in the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri. Stereotyped as poor, lawless degenerates, these isolated hill folk over time became the butt of countless jokes and earned themselves the name “hillbillies.”
This enjoyable documentary captures [...]

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Drew Emmit of Leftover Salmon fame to release “Long Road” on Compass Records July 15

Category: CD Release

By Travis Tackett
June 10, 2008

Drew Emmitt releases “Long Road” on Compass Records July 15.
Nashville, Tenn. — “Lord you know I’ve been so many places / At least I know I have a longer view”, sings Leftover Salmon lead singer and mandolin player Drew Emmitt over a rollicking mandolin lick on the title track of his third solo effort, [...]

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