Monday, April 03, 2006

BLUEGRASS: Round-up of a few noteworthy items!

From The Bluegrass Blog ...
Audio snippets of Claire Lynch's new CD
Bluegrass, Claire Lynch, Rounder Records[The BGB] mentioned last week that Claire Lynch's CD, New Day, was due for release on Rounder on March 28.

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also mentioned at that time that no audio samples were yet available online. They are now up on the Rounder web site, with a snippet from each of the 12 tracks ...

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Clear Channel gives Bluegrass a try ...
Bluegrass, WCTR-AMClear Channel Radio, often cynically portrayed by critics as embodying all that is wrong with corporate radio consolidation, has flipped a property in WV from Gospel to a Bluegrass / Americana format, effective March 30. The station is WCTR-AM, serving the Huntington, WV and Ashland, KY markets, who are now presenting themselves as 1420 AMericana - Home of Today's New Grass. This marks the first time that a major radio group has chosen this sort of format for an over-the-air station.

Too contemporary for me but I'll listen to see when they run the good stuff and tune in then.

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