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Chris Castino and Chicken Wire Empire: Fresh Pickles

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01455
Fresh Pickles, Chris Castino’s upcoming release with Chicken Wire Empire, is less a departure from his career with the jam band The Big Wu than a return to his earlier influences. Castino admits that when he started writing songs, he was new to bluegrass. He credits his heightened interest to......
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ROGER CLINE: So InClined

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey02542
When Roger Cline decided to cut a CD, after some prodding from friends and fellow musicians, he wanted a project as varied as his own musical history. With his 2020 release So InClined, he did just that. Raised in Maryland with the Mason-Dixon Line just up the road from his home,......
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SUZY BOGGUSS: LIVE AT CAFFE MILANO

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01861
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......
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INTRODUCING AMY JACK

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01941
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.......
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JULIE AND JOHN PENNELL: KEEP ON WALKIN’

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey02485
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......
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KATY MOFFATT RELEASES CHRYSALIS

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey03565
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......
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JONELL MOSSER WITH JOHN HALL: LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey03737
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......
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NATE LEE: WINGS OF A JETLINER

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01814
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......