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songbiscuit: Chris Thile & Michael Daves perform Rabbit in the Log at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City

A little late getting around to this, but the fine folks over at Garden and Gun magazine did a great issue on the ‘bluegrass nation’ in their last issue. Features include:

Sam Bush: The Man Who Broke All the Rules

The Brothers Avett: When the Music Stops, There’s No Place They’d Rather Be Than Their North Carolina Home

The Unlikely Ambassadors of Bluegrass: Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

I’ll be posting some of the videos on their site in due course.

leadingtone:

From OvationTV, the story behind “Orange Blossom Special,” one of the best-known bluegrass standards.

lynlynkeegan:

Garden & Gun

The toilets in the basement of New York City’s B. B. King nightclub are overflowing. It is not a modest spill. More like a boot-high flood of unmistakable sewage, determinedly running through the premises as if tardy for an appointment.

Inside the dressing room backstage,…

(Source: lyndseykeegan)

theonlysoundthatsleft:

I think everythings just as it should be

Rye Whiskey ~ Frank Fairfield

The Bell House will host an evening of live music and homestyle cooking on March 31st with three Brooklyn based bands are gonna bring you old country that’ll make you feel closer than kin. Fans are invited to bring a covered dish and their dancing shows.  Bands include:

ZACH WILLIAMS & THE BELLOW

 TRISHA IVY

BRIAN ELMQUIST

MELANIE PENN

Shelby Lynne- Where I’m From.  Discovered her via Oxford American Magazine’s annual Southern Music issue, which is focused on the great state of Alabama.  She’s listed in their Top 15 Contemporary Alabama Artists feature.

Elegamment les batos passant
ben on la flota vec du van
all I’m trying to say is I’m
never far away from
Alabama frame of mind