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Yesterday | Asheville Citizen-Times

Woody Wood opens for Eric Bachmann Saturday night at The Grey Eagle. Special to the Citizen-Times

He was raised in a bluegrass world, so it might seem that Aaron 'Woody' Wood was destined for a musical career playing banjo or fiddle.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, Rock-N-Roll, Chuck Berry, Classical, Solomon, Asheville Metro

Wed Dec 02, 2009

The Bluegrass Blog

Jack Cooke - RIP

We have just learned that Jack Cooke, long-time member of Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, passed away last night after suffering a massive heart attack.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley

Fri Nov 27, 2009

St. Petersburg Times

Melvin Goins brings old-school approach to Sertoma Youth Ranch's...

Melvin Goins is unabashedly old school when it comes to playing bluegrass music.

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Related Topix: Johnson City Metro, Bluegrass, Flatt & Scruggs

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Stevens Point Journal

Bluegrass show to benefit skate park

Central Wisconsin bluegrass band Art Stevenson & High Water will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Theater @1800 . Since 1993, High Water has been one of the Midwest's most popular and sought-after bluegrass acts.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Bill Monroe

The Courier-Journal

Archivist brings Ball's music to life

For more than 30 years, Estil Cortez Ball and his wife, Orna, sang country and gospel music for the people of Virginia and North Carolina, in churches and on the radio, serving only the songs and their Lord.

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Related Topix: Arts, Poetry, The Carter Family, Bluegrass, Country, Louisville, KY, Pop/Rock, The Mekons, The Handsome Family

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Franklin News-Post

Crooked Road to offer traveling exhibits

The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail has developed two informative traveling exhibits that will be available beginning in 2010 to communities in The Crooked Road region, which includes Rocky Mount and Franklin County.

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Related Topix: Rocky Mount, VA, Franklin County, VA, Bluegrass

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Houstonpress.com

Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Sickest, Most Twisted Musical Genre Isn't Gangsta Rap - It's Bluegrass

Not really sure whether it's our alcohol mixture, some pharmacological imbalance our sex life or just male menopausal phenomena, but lately Lonesome, Onry and Mean has been on an evil bluegrass jag.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe

Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Bluegrass Blog

Copyright Time Bomb

Wired magazine's Epicenter blog recently ran a story about an impending time bomb written into the Copyright Act of 1976 .

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, The Seldom Scene

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Cybergrass

Charlie Sizemore at Ralph Stanley Music Center December 5th

Announcement : Charlie Sizemore at Ralph Stanley Music Center December 5th BMNN wrote: on Nov.

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Related Topix: Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass, Kentucky, Kentucky Government, Keith Whitley, Country, University of Kentucky

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Bluegrass Blog

Dr. Ralph does The Late Show

Letterman has dubbed this week as Country Music Week on The Late Show , with musical performances each night from prominent Nashville entertainers.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Public Relations

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Independent

Larry Sparks to perform in Hitchins

Bluegrass music veterans Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers will bring their brand of high-energy picking and singing to the stage at the Isaacs Performing Arts Center in the Old Hitchins School on Friday.

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Related Topix: Hitchins, KY, Bluegrass, Larry Sparks, Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers, The Isaacs, Eastern, KY

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Illinois Entertainer

Hello, My Name Is David

IE: Is there still passionate debate about what does and doesn't constitute bluegrass ? David Grisman : I imagine so, in some circles at least.

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Related Topix: David Grisman, Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, The Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Reno & Smiley

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Nashville Scene

Upon the release of his autobiography, Dr. Ralph Stanley discusses his 63 years in music

Man of Constant Sorrow: The Life and Times of a Music Legend By Dr. Ralph Stanley Gotham Books, 320 pp., $26 When he was a child, he was often called "the boy with the hundred-year-old voice." At 82, Dr.

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Related Topix: Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass, Virginia

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Cybergrass

Larry Sparks Latest Bluegrass Gospel Release Available Now

BMNN wrote: on Oct. 21, 2009: Emerging from the Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys band, Larry Sparks carries on with the sounds created by Bluegrass music's first generation and has always intended to let his music speak for itself - but for those who listen, it has told a story that runs like an unbroken thread through more than 40 years of ...

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Related Topix: Larry Sparks, Bluegrass

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Pacifica Tribune

What's Happening in Pacifica: Week of October 14 - 20, 2009

High Country this Saturday, October17, at 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass Back by popular demand! If you love the down home country sound of Bluegrass, then don't miss this fantastic band.

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Related Topix: Pacifica, CA, Bluegrass, 9

Sun Sep 27, 2009

Daily News Sun

Tangled Strings kicks off free concert series

Phoenix-based Tangled Strings Bluegrass Band will kick off the Rec Centers' free Concert in the Park Series at 7 p.m. Oct.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, The Bluegrass Band, Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, The Seldom Scene

Wed Sep 16, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Lauper taps into her psychic side on Fox's `Bones'

There are times that no matter how daunting the task, you have to do it yourself.

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Related Topix: Bones, Entertainment, Drama, Television, James Brown, Black Entertainment, Soul, Bluegrass, Blues, Wynonie Harris, Comedy, Saturday Night Live

Tue Sep 15, 2009

Riverfront Times

Coal Miner's Daughter: Country chanteuse Patty Loveless charms the Sheldon

Patty Loveless: "The song is the character you become. I've either lived it or been associated with it." Details: Patty Loveless 8 p.m. Thursday, September 17.

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Related Topix: Patty Loveless, Country, Kitty Wells, Bluegrass, Porter Wagoner, Music, Entertainment

Fri Sep 11, 2009

MinnPost.com

Weekend thumbnails of iconic music: Bluegrass royalty at the Cedar, Beethovena s 5th for SPCO

The music I have played and enjoyed the most in the past three years is, of all things, a three-CD collection from Time Life titled "The Stanley Brothers: The Definitive Collection ." It is fundamental American music: rural bluegrass with a tapestry of strings beneath vocals seemingly made whole cloth out of the dirt, water, and foliage of the ...

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Ralph Stanley, Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Symphony, Arts

Mon Sep 07, 2009

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Historian of a musical democracy

There are times that no matter how daunting the task, you have to do it yourself.

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Related Topix: Cincinnati Metro, Cincinnati, OH Metro, Black Entertainment, Soul, James Brown, Bluegrass, Blues, Wynonie Harris

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