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SUZY BOGGUSS: LIVE AT CAFFE MILANO

Nancy PoseySep 18, 2020September 19, 20200

It didn’t take Suzy Bogguss long to know Nashville was the town for her. She had cut a record in Peoria, Illinois, where she was working six nights a week in bars, listening rooms, and supper clubs. She and two friends wanted to see what Nashville was all about, so...

AMANDA KATE: TIME CD AS A TIME CAPSULE

Nancy PoseyJul 21, 2020July 21, 20200

In the song “Gypsy,” from her new CD Time, Amanda Kate suggests she could be at home anywhere: Can’t seem to land anywhere that I can call my home Cuz I get the itch the move no matter where I go Most of the time though, she feels right at home in...

INTRODUCING AMY JACK

Nancy PoseyJul 14, 2020July 14, 20200

Amy Jack’s Oklahoma musical roots run deep. Her Scots-Irish great grandparents were among the early settlers who took part in the land run to Western Oklahoma before it was even a state. They brought with them the traditional Scottish and Irish music and instruments that influenced the earliest country music....

JULIE AND JOHN PENNELL: KEEP ON WALKIN’

Nancy PoseyJul 4, 2020July 6, 20200

By the time Julie and John Pennell met at an Ontario Bluegrass festival, they had both begun putting down deep roots in Bluegrass. John played with Vassar Clements and in the early years with Alison Krauss and Union Station. Growing up in North Bay, Ontario, Julie came from a big...

KATY MOFFATT RELEASES CHRYSALIS

Nancy PoseyJun 11, 2020June 28, 20200

Chrysalis, the title of the new two-CD release on Sunset Blvd. Records by Katy Moffatt, aptly describes Moffatt’s career, as well as the music appearing on the recording, characterized by transitions. Chrysalis is a two-CD project pulling together three albums Moffatt recorded ten years apart with guitarist Andrew Hardin: 1988’s Walkin’ On...

JONELL MOSSER WITH JOHN HALL: LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Nancy PoseyJun 2, 2020June 2, 20200

Jonell Mosser has been in the music business long enough to know that timing can be everything, so it should come as no surprise that Little Black Dress, her newly released CD, is finding a wide audience now, all songs recorded during a performance by Mosser and John Hall in May 1991...

NATE LEE: WINGS OF A JETLINER

Nancy PoseyJun 2, 2020June 15, 20200

Certainly since the pioneering days of Bill Monroe, nobody has questioned the mandolin’s rightful place in the bluegrass world, but the instrument is too often relegated to a secondary role. In his new solo CD, Wings of a Jetliner, set for a June 12 release, Nate Lee firmly settles his mandolin front...

RACHEL REINERT LAUNCHES FIRST SOLO CD: INTO THE BLUE

Nancy PoseyApr 24, 2020April 30, 20200

Rachel Reinert began 2020 with expectations of a busy year. With her first solo project Into the Blue set for a March 15 release, she and husband Caleb Crosby took a quick trip to Florida, she says, “just to clear my head. But as soon as we got back to Nashville,...

The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project: Vol. I

Nancy PoseyMar 13, 2020March 13, 20200

In 2018, Matt Combs, Katie Harford Hogue, and Greg Reish completed a truly mammoth project, John Hartford’s Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes, including original tunes, the musical notation works of art, rendered by the hand of the late musical icon taken from his collection of notebooks, along with photos and stories...

OLD TIN: CD RELEASE BY ERYNN MARSHALL AND CARL JONES

Nancy PoseyFeb 18, 2020February 18, 20200

In a recent interview, James Taylor said that he had taken it as a true compliment when Paul McCartney thought his song “Mean Old Man” was an old standard. On their new CD Old Tin, Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones manage such a perfect blend of original tunes and Old Time...