The Spinney Brothers Red Deer, Alberta 2011 October 23 Presented by the Waskasoo Bluegrass Music Society Prior to catching Nova Scotia's favourite bluegrass sons in Red Deer this past weekend, I had somehow managed to miss The Spinney Brothers in concert. Now Nova Scotia is almost as far [...]

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Every few weeks I like to take a look at the bluegrass charts. While what is riding high (or dropping fast) doesn't have a great impact on me personally, I like to keep abreast of what is popular, gaining ground, and falling out of favour. It offers me a chance to champion albums and songs I [...]

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Laurie Lewis "Skippin' and Flyin'" Spruce and Maple Music I've been told that I have a tendency to occasionally write more than people want to read, given these days of shorter attention spans and such. So here is the capsule review: West coast bluegrass maven Laurie [...]

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What is that pain in my neck and shoulders? O, the new Bluegrass Today Top 20 has been posted. As I posted late last night, this latest endeavour attempting to track bluegrass airplay is very responsive. Perhaps, too much so. Last week, Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad's Big River [...]

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Bluegrass charts have long- at least in my mind- been a bit of a joke. I loved Bluegrass Now but its chart had some serious issues- a two-year old album could suddenly find itself at number three for a one-month reappearance. One of the magazine's final 2007 editions had Nickel [...]

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