The Stanley Brothers News

Ralph Stanley has been in the studio this month, working on a new album for Rebel Records, one which he has intimated may be his last.

BMNN wrote: on Dec. 17, 2009: Bluegrass music legend Curly Seckler has two reasons to celebrate coming up.

My guest host this morning was Tom Nixon . Here is Tom's playlist as he emailed it to me: Burning Love - " The Meat Purveyors Blue Moon of Kentucky - " Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys Xmas on the Istmus - " Terry Allen The Myster of Life - " I See Hawks in LA Alcoholidays - " Chris Gafney and the Cold Hard Facts Railroad Bill - " Frank Hovington ...

If you're looking for a little boost from the post-Thanksgiving blahs, The Mockingbird is the place to be tonight as Gary Ruley and his picking buddies, Mule Train, will be laying it down with their nice mix of hardcore bluegrass and newgrass interpretations.

Working as a bluegrass bassist must be a pretty thankless task. Though you're providing the core pulse and harmonic framework for the music, you never get a turn in the solo spotlight - unlike the guitarist, fiddler, mandolinist, and banjoist .

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.