Jimmy Martin News

Bluegrass banjo picker Bill Emerson will perform a Satuday night concert at the Burnsville Town Center in Burnsville.

Announcement : Boston Bluegrass Union Presents Audie Blaylock and Redline BMNN wrote: on Nov.

H ow do you best describe singer and guitar player Audie Blaylock? Perhaps Nashville Public Radio's "Bluegrass Breakdown" host Dave Higgs said it best: "He got his baptism by fire playing with Jimmy Martin as a teenager; he honed his craft with Rhonda Vincent & the Rage; and now fronts one of the fieriest traditional bands in the genre." Audie ...

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

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's star-studded 1972 triple-album Will The Circle Be Unbroken is regarded as the first stirrings of the nascent Americana movement, introducing The Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson to a young, metropolitan audience.

Bluegrass and acoustic music are experiencing intriguing paradigm shifts as old-guard traditionalists like Bill Monroe and Jimmy Martin pass on, and crews of youthful, energetic musicians bring their contemporary ideas into the mix.

He has some solo country material due alongside a new Nelson set and an in-the-works documentary TV series with the producer of the hit TLC show Little People, Big World.

Ten years ago, when fiction writer and music critic Tom Piazza's True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin first came out, Piazza joked that the book should have been published with extra blank pages in the back so that the reader could include his or her own Jimmy Martin experience, since everyone who was a Jimmy Martin fan had one ...

By the time I walked in kind of late Wednesday night, there were only about 20 people at Kirk Avenue Music Hall to hear Asheville, N.C.'s Town Mountain .

The unpleasant infighting among the children of Jimmy Martin over his estate, an open secret for years within the bluegrass community, has hit the mainstream media.

The King of Bluegrass used his will to scold his children for ignoring him during his last years.

Tom Adams, of Gettysburg, performed last week at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.

Rural Rhythm has snapped up another top name in bluegrass, announcing today that Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie will release their next CD in 2010 on the California-based label.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has lifetime bluegrass street cred, even if they never even thought about bluegrass music again.

News : Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper Announce Newest Member BMNN wrote: on Jul.

NPR.org , July 23, 2009 - Originally from Sullivan County, Tenn., Doyle Lawson possesses a love of a cappella gospel singing that was instilled in him by his musical parents.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band comes to Great Falls for an outdoor concert at the Hideout Lounge on July 21.

Out September 22 on NGDB Records, distributed by SugarHill, the new album finds the band at their laid back, ramshackle best, eschewing the large collaboration approach here for a set of songs anchored by the remarkably deft musicianship, and diverse songwriting and vocal styles of the core band of Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, Bob Carpenter, and John ...

Bluegrass crooner Josh Williams has just finished work on his third solo project for Pinecastle Records.

2005 Bluegrass vocalist Jimmy Martin dies of bladder cancer in Nashville at the age of 77.