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Mon, May 20 2013 1:44am - Source: DEEP BLUES

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R.L. BURNSiDE - It's Bad You Know - The Wesson Remix

Sun, May 19 2013 4:42am - Source: DEEP BLUES

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The Plantation System In Southern Life (1950) via Internet Archive

Mon, May 13 2013 4:33am - Source: DEEP BLUES

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OLD GRAY MULE's Mississippi Sunset Porch Boogie!

Thu, May 09 2013 12:06am - Source: DEEP BLUES

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Little Brother Eli - Hanging - The miXendorp edit

Wed, May 01 2013 4:29am - Source: DEEP BLUES

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The Sound Of The Future :: MiSSiSSiPPi BiG BEAT - (Idol) Should I Know - The miXendorp edit

Mon, April 29 2013 2:22pm - Source: DEEP BLUES

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WHO THE HELL iS JAMiE N. COMMONS?

Thu, April 25 2013 4:59am - Source: DEEP BLUES

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O LENDARiO CHUCROBiLLYMAN - CHiCKEN FLOW

Sun, April 21 2013 7:20pm - Source: DEEP BLUES

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Cassadee Pope Reality Show in the Works; Country on the Beach Lineup Announced + More: Country Music News Roundup

Tue, March 05 2013 10:19pm - Source: The Boot

The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.

Ballads, Blues & Blueglass

Tue, February 26 2013 10:56am - Source: Uncut.co.uk

For such a fabled hotbed there's precious little footage of New York's vibrant folk scene at the dawn of the 1960s, a world glimpsed mainly through photographs and memoirs like Dylan's Chronicles.

Gone in threes: 2012

Tue, January 01 2013 7:33pm - Source: Am, Then FM

Tom Davis ("Saturday Night Live" writer), Willard Metscher (my 6th-grade teacher), Mike Wallace ("60 Minutes").

Notable 2012 deaths in music: Dave Brubeck, Dick Clark, Don Cornelius, Levon Helm, Jon Lord

Mon, December 31 2012 1:32pm - Source: Something Else!

We stop today to remember those who left the world of music in 2012, from Dave Brubeck and Dick Clark to Levon Helm and Ronnie Montrose.

2012 review: notable deaths in music

Mon, December 24 2012 9:17am - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

The bandleader Johnny Otis, who has died aged 90, was one of the first white American musicians to cross the racial divide, aligning himself with the black community as a teenager and from then on regarding himself – and being treated as – a black man.

The Out Door: For the Rest of Our Lives

Tue, November 27 2012 6:20pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

Welcome to The Out Door , Pitchfork's monthly guide to sounds at the fringes of modern music.

Old Crow Medicine Show - Carry Me Back

Wed, November 21 2012 4:30pm - Source: BBC Music

Mumford & Sons may be the poster boys for the roots revival of the 2010s, but the Old Crow Medicine Show were a step ahead.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 12 Full Schedule / Picks

Sun, September 30 2012 1:58am - Source: Twang Nation

The 12th year of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival shows the premier showcase for great (and FREE!)

Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson remembered at Bluegrass Awards

Fri, September 28 2012 11:23am - Source: The Independent - Music

The Gibson Brothers won entertainer of the year and joined Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice as the only multiple winners at the ceremony at Ryman Auditorium.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 lineup revealed

Fri, September 07 2012 12:26am - Source: Consequence of Sound

San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival has been going strong since 2001, offering jam-packed, genre-bending lineups for the cost of absolutely nothing.

Alison Krauss & Union Station notch up eight International Bluegrass Award nominations

Sat, August 18 2012 12:10am - Source: Music-News.com

It was a great evening in Nashville for Alison Krauss and Union Station on Wednesday as they received eight nominations for the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards.

Ricky Skaggs' 'Music to My Ears' Album Details Revealed

Tue, August 14 2012 7:16pm - Source: The Boot

Releasing Sept. 25 on Ricky's own Skaggs Family Records, the project will feature a collaboration with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and a tribute to the late Doc Watson.

Ricky Skaggs' Gospel Music Hall of Fame Induction Set for Next Week

Fri, August 10 2012 4:31pm - Source: The Boot

Ricky Skaggs has accumulated plenty of awards and accolades in the past 35 years, including 14 Grammy awards and eight CMA trophies, but the Kentucky native says one of his biggest honors is yet to come.

My Morning Jacket, Jackson Browne Beat Hard Rain at Newport Folk Festival

Mon, July 30 2012 5:54pm - Source: Rolling Stone

A grey fog had descended and it had started to drizzle on My Morning Jacket's set at the Newport Folk Festival Saturday night, when frontman Jim James invited Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard onstage.

Interview: Critter Fuqua (of Old Crow Medicine Show)

Thu, July 26 2012 4:42am - Source: Consequence of Sound

Recently, Consequence of Sound' s Nick Freed likened listening to the music of Old Crow Medicine Show to traveling back in time.

Vince Gill Bluegrass Tour Has Been a Welcome Change

Mon, June 25 2012 6:41pm - Source: The Boot

Vince Gill is one of country music's most enduring performers, as skilled on the guitar as he is at penning heart-piercing hit songs.

Radiohead Push Boundaries at Bonnaroo

Sat, June 09 2012 2:25pm - Source: Rolling Stone

When Radiohead first played Bonnaroo in 2006, they did it with a set full of back-catalog staples and a handful of new songs.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 231

Fri, June 08 2012 2:57pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Folklorist, prolific songwriter, singer/multi-instrumentalist, and environmental apostle Jimmie (Jimmy) Driftwood was born James Morris in Arkansas in 1907.

Doc Watson “Doc and the Boys”

Thu, June 07 2012 4:49pm - Source: THE RISING STORM

There's little doubt folk and bluegrass lost one of its legends in Doc Watson, a self-taught founder of flatpicking and popularizer of traditional American music for 60 some years.

Doc Watson - an American great

Fri, June 01 2012 7:26am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

By his late teens, while a student at The School for the Blind in Raleigh, Watson had learned how to finger-pick from his neighbour Olin Miller.

Doc Watson – (1923 – 2012) – The Music Never Dies

Thu, May 31 2012 1:04pm - Source: Twang Nation

I'm not a religious man but I would like to have a word with god.

David Fricke: Memories of Doc Watson

Wed, May 30 2012 8:45pm - Source: Rolling Stone

With the passing of Arthel "Doc" Watson , in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar – a blind flat-picking virtuoso of astonishing velocity, clean precision and earthy melodic comfort.

Wednesday Music News

Wed, May 30 2012 8:01pm - Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

Seven months after the release of the Headcage EP, electronic avant-pop producer Matthew Dear will release Beams, his first full-length in two years.

Legendary guitarist Doc Watson dies at 89

Wed, May 30 2012 5:48pm - Source: Soundspike

"My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music," Watson once told an interviewer.

Doc Watson and His Tall Drink O' Water Merle

Wed, May 30 2012 3:36pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Merle Watson has a strong set of credentials for a young musician.

Shorties (Manhattan's Literary Bars, Regina Spektor, and more)

Wed, May 30 2012 2:40pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

Shelf Awareness recommends 10 literary bars in Manhattan.

Folk and Bluegrass Legend Doc Watson Hospitalized

Fri, May 25 2012 3:55pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Legendary guitarist and singer Doc Watson is in critical condition at Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem after falling at his home in Deep Gap, North Carolina, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at 88

Thu, March 29 2012 5:28pm - Source: Soundspike

In 1948, Scruggs and guitarist Flatt left Monroe's band to form their own group, the Foggy Mountain Boys. The band, later known simply as Flatt and Scruggs, toured and recorded together for more than 20 years, producing many hits and widening the reach of bluegrass.

Laurelyn Dossett, Rhiannon Giddens, Mike Compton – The Gathering (2011)

Sun, December 04 2011 12:42pm - Source: Something Else!

The Gathering , a homey Christmas-themed Americana and roots album, features singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett and others recording in a suitably rustic locale: a house in Greensboro, North Carolina.

FRANK FAiRFiELD - Forward! Into The Past!

Sat, August 20 2011 8:18pm - Source: MOG

A troubled vagabond who eventually made his way home to Los Angeles, Fairfield rooted through the city as a street musician, pulling bow across fiddle and hammering away at a banjo or acoustic guitar on corners or in flea markets.

Clarence White

Fri, August 12 2011 12:34am - Source: MOG

A while back, Madeline Burke had a post about a Zimbabwean singer's CD, and one of his songs had a melody that sounded familiar.

A new gift from David Bromberg and friends

Tue, July 12 2011 3:54pm - Source: MOG

This bad boy is a gift from David and his friends to the world of "real" music.

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