Sarah Jarosh has just released her new album Follow me Down, a fantastic album with many great songs. I cannot stop listening to this great album! In the following video Sarah Jarosz talks about some of the songs and about the other great musicians that sing and played with her – Chris Thile and the […]
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Alison Krauss has just released her latest CD Paper Aiplane. I have recently listened to the title track and I have just found the complete album at grooveshark and created a widget so that you can listen to it easily (see below). This album has many great songs! And there are some nice videos too:
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Giovanni Gioviale was a famous Italian mandolin player during the beginning of the 20th century. A detailed biography of Giovanni Gioviale can be found on the site of the Federazione Mandolinistica Italiana. Between 1926 and 1929 Gioviale stayed in New York, and during this stay he recorded many of his pieces. David Grisman has compiled
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Some days ago I found a concert by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet on the CBC Concerts on Demand website. David Kanengiser has created a great piece for one actor and guitar quartet based on the novel Don Quixote by Cervantes. The actor Phil Proctor recites the story in a fascination way, I have never
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Just found this nice Video with Norman and Nancy Blake. The talk about their music and about their guitars and play and sing two tunes: Norman and Nancy Blake “My Dear Old Southern Home” and “New Money” Playlist Norman and Nancy Blake Playlist – Blind Dog Additional Infos Wikipedia about Norman Blake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Blake_%28American_musician%29
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Zayn Skinner is a 15 year old mandolin player who plays in the band of his dad Jason Skinner named Hudson and Skinner and the Blue Ridge Cut Ups. In his fathers youtube channel you can find videos with the complete band, but also a set of videos of Zayn together with his dad playing
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Kris Kehr has just added another hour with music by Bill Monroe to his blog Black Mountain Underground. In December 2010 Kris Kehr has already compiled five one hour broadcasts with music by Bill Monroe. You can download all six podcast and listen to Bill Monroe and study his style and especially his mandolin playing.
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Eddie Kirkland – known as the Gypsy of the Blues – has died in a car accident. He was 87 years old. He was still performing 40 weeks every year and just came from a concert when the accident happened. Eddie Kirkland started playing the guitar and performing at an early age of 12 years
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When I was looking for videos of Hotel Califormia I did also find some videos by Earl Klugh which made me curious. So I have looked for more information about Earl Klugh and collected interesting youtube videos. At first I have listened to the following short interview with three live pieces played by Earl Klugh
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Yesterday I have listened to another program of the Antique Gramophone Music Program with Mac – a program with a live band. Actually the East River String Band was represented by its two leaders Eden Brower and John Heneghan. This duet is regularly enlarged by several other musicians for concerts. Eden & John’s East River
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