The Del McCoury Band has posted video on the Delfest site of Dierks Bentley rehearsing his hit single “Lot of Leavin’ Left To Do” with Del and the boys in anticipation of their performance together at the 1st annual Delfest.

The festival, promoted by High Sierra Music and McCoury Music, takes place over Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25, in Cumberland, MD at the Allegany County Fairgrounds.

The inaugural lineup features the aforementioned Dierks Bentley along with Vince Gill, Sam Bush, David Grisman, The Punch Brothers and Steep Canyon rangers along with a whole list of others.

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Burlington, MA – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have just completed a new video for “Please Read the Letter” – the second single off of their celebrated T Bone Burnett-produced album Raising Sand. Set in a sparsely decorated gothic mansion, the video offers an elegant and haunting visual companion to the Robert Plant and Jimmy Page penned tune from the album. “Please Read the Letter” which debuted yesterday on CMT, was shot in Los Angeles by director Rocky Schenck.

Click here to see the video for “Please Read the Letter.”

Raising Sand (Rounder Records) was recently certified RIAA Platinum, and garnered a Grammy® award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the track “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On).” Plant and Krauss are set to embark on a world tour with a band led by T Bone Burnett beginning on April 19th in Louisville, KY.

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Nashville, Tenn. — Once again, Mountain Heart is blazing new trails for bluegrass and acoustic music with the March 5th music video release of the title track from the Road That Never Ends (The Live Album) on Rural Rhythm Records. This is Mountain Heart’s first music video and was produced by Josh Shilling and directed by Scott Hansen from Renown Studio.

AristoMedia will distribute the video to National and Regional music video outlets. Jessica Bilak Porfirio, Manager of Video Marketing & Promotions with the company enthusiastically stated, “We are happy to be working with Rural Rhythm Records and Mountain Heart on this new project. We are looking forward to taking this high energy and well produced music video to our panel of outlets where we anticipate a great response.”

The video was shot in numerous locations around Roanoke, Virginia including the live show performance and bar scenes filmed at the Grey Stone Tavern. Another location included the Virginia Beach area with an interesting story told by Shilling…

“The most memorable part of filming the video for Road That Never Ends has got to be the bone-chilling scene we tried to capture in the rain. We needed a scene to accent the lyrics that portrayed a man begging forgiveness for all that he’d done wrong. It was midnight, around Christmas time, and the temperature had dropped to a painful 15 degrees. We setup lighting in a dark alley and piped a water hose to the scene from a nearby building. We spent twenty minutes filming me falling to my knees with freezing water being sprayed all over the scene from above. After the cameras, our clothes, and the concrete surrounding us began to freeze, we had to call it off. My skin was red and felt numb as we stripped our wet clothes off and huddled around a small space heater in a garage. I’m certain this was the closest you can get to hypothermia without being hospitalized. After we thawed out, reality set in that after all of our efforts, the awesome shot we were going for, simply didn’t exist. It’s something the world would’ve never known about, but hey, I guess it’s all for the love of music!”Josh Shilling - Mountain Heart

“Road That Never Ends” written by band members Josh Shilling and Grammy™ nominated Jim VanCleve, was chosen by Dirty Linen Magazine as part of the Dirty Linen CD Sampler titled, Editor’s Choice. This CD sampler will be distributed to all Dirty Linen subscriber’s as well as future subscribers. The song is also rapidly climbing the Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine Top 30 Singles Chart and hit #1 on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Top 40. The Album reached #4 on BILLBOARD Magazine’s Top 15 Bluegrass Album Chart and made its debut this month on Bluegrass Unlimited’s Top 15 Album Chart.

Mountain Heart is widely known throughout the music industry for constantly redefining the cutting edge. The band has gained legions of fans both as a result of their superlative musicianship, and more notably, their incomparably exciting live performances. This was truly evident at their recent return performance at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This special “homecoming concert” was sold out days in advance.

Mountain Heart band members include: Josh Shilling (lead vocals, guitar, piano); Jim Van Cleve (fiddle, vocals); Barry Abernathy (banjo, vocals); Jason Moore (bass, vocals); Aaron Ramsey (mandolin); and Clay Hess (guitar, vocals).

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Randy Kohrs will appear on the CBS TV’s Rachel Ray Show on Friday, February 22, 2008. Check your local listings for times.

Randy’s segment will cover his Award-Winning Kitchen which ties into the the theme of this show: “The Coolest Kitchens in America” as well as a brief live performance of his upcoming single, “She Ain’t Coming Back,” off his Rural Rhythm’s CD, “Old Photograph”. Randy will also discuss his recent GRAMMY™ AWARD for producing Jim Lauderdale’s Grammy™ Award Winning “Bluegrass Album of the Year” for “Bluegrass Diaries”

In Other Randy Kohrs News:

• The International Acoustic Music Association just awarded Kohrs their first place prize in the Country/Bluegrass category for the song “Rockwell’s Gold,” the first single from the latest self-produced project.
• The March 2008 Bluegrass Unlimited National Bluegrass Survey has “Who’s Goin’ With Me” by Randy Kohrs from “Old Photograph” sitting at #18

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The good folks at Lotos Nile let us know about this “behind the scenes” video filmed with Blue Highway during the recording of their latest Rounder release “Through The Window of a Train.” The clip includes interviews with band members, audio samples from the new album and features commentaries by Sam Bush, Ricky Skaggs and Jeremy Garrett of the Infamous Stringdusters.

The video was produced by Craig Havighurst of String Theory Media.

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