Blue Knob Bluegrass & BBQ

It has benn widely reported that the Mountain Vista Bluegrass Festival is canceled for this year. That is true as far as it goes.

However, the neighboring Blue Knob All Seasons Resort has scheduled a Bluegrass and BBQ event for the usual Blue Knob weekend, June 11 & 12. http://www.blueknob.com/summer/events.php

I have no other information at this time, except that Blue Shades will be playing the event, According to Brad they don't know any more at this time.

If anyone can forward me more complete info, I will post it here. tties91@hotmail.com

Traditional Ties, 03/18/10, Playlist

Contact info for new adds:
Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers - http://www.myclassiccountry.com/RadioRamblers.htm - http://www.rebelrecords.com/
Paul Williams & the Victory Trio - http://www.myspace.com/paulwilliamsandthevictorytrio - http://www.rebelrecords.com/
Air Time / Artist Name /  Song Title /  Album Name /  Label  /  Duration

10:00 PM /  Kenny Baker /  Jerusalem Ridge (Theme) /  Plays Bill Monroe /  County /  2:00

10:02 PM /  Joe Mullins /  Another Day, Another Dollar /  Rambler's Call /  Rebel  / 2:37

10:06 PM /  Audie Blaylock /  Talk to Your Heart /  Cryin' Heart Blues /  Rural Rhythm /  3:48

10:09 PM  / The Grascals /  The Famous Lefty Flynn's /  The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder /  2:52

10:12 PM  /  Wayne Taylor / Dirt Roads / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Raincoe / 3:15
10:16 PM /  The Chapmans /  Jenny Dear / Grown Up / Compass / 4:30

10:21 PM / Rhonda Vincent /  Last Time Loving You /  Destination Life /  Rounder /  2:49

10:24 PM /  Dailey & Vincent / Do You Know You Are My Sunshine / Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler  / Cracker Barrel  /  2:21

10:26 PM / Alan Munde / Brown County Breakdown / Made to Last  /Munde's Child / 3:45

10:31 PM / Paul Williams / Living the Right Life Now / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2:19

10:35 PM / Paul Williams / Anywhere Is Home / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 3:02

10:39 PM / Paul Williams / He Answered My Plea / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel  / 1:28

10:41 PM / Paul Williams / Only God's Son / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 3:07

10:45 PM / Joe Mullins / Heaven's Green Shore / Rambler's Call / Rebel  / 3:12

10:49 PM / Doyle Lawson / Mountain View Missionary Baptist Church /  Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly / Horizon  /3:48

10:52 PM / Donna Ulisse / The Key / Walk This Mountain Down  / Hadley  / 3:48

10:55 PM / Greenbrier / Workin' On a Building / The Back of the Book / Greenbrier / 3:40

11:00 PM / True Bluegrass / With Care from Someone (Theme) / True Bluegrass 1979 / True Bluegrass  / 2:00

11:02 PM / Joe Mullins / Boston Jail / Rambler's Call / Rebel / 3:25

11:05 PM / Joe Mullins / Farmer's Blues / Rambler's Call / Rebel  / 3:41

11:10 PM / Joe Mullins / Charlotte Breakdown / Rambler's Call / Rebel /  2:31

11:14 PM / Joe Mullins / Rambler's Call  /Rambler's Call / Rebel / 3:06

11:18 PM / Chris Warner / Heartbreak / Goin' to the Dance / Patuxent / 2:49

11:20 PM /  Butler - Wade / Movin' On / Haulin' Grass / Blue Circle / 2:49

11:23 PM / Gibson Brothers / Farm of Yesterday  / Ring the Bell / Compass / 3:34

11:27 PM / Lou Reid / Left Handed Dreamer / My Own Set of Rules / Rural Rhythm / 2:29

11:30 PM / Claire Lynch / Barbed Wire Boys / Whatcha You Gonna Do / Rounder / 3:36

11:34 PM / Adam Steffey / Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends / One More for the Road / Sugar Hill / 4:04

11:38 PM / Del McCoury / Hello Lonely / Family Circle / McCoury Music / 3:25

11:41 PM / Special Consensus / I'll Go to My Grave Lovin' You / Signs / Pinecastle / 3:25

11:46 PM / Lizzy Long & Little Roy Lewis  / Sit Down and Cry / Streight from the Heart / Vine  / 2:38

11:49 PM / Bill Emerson / I Don't Care Anymore / Southern / Rural Rhyrhm / 2:25

11:51 PM / Brand New Strings / High On a Hilltop / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm / 3:05

11:54 PM / Randy Kohrs / Devil of the Trail  / Quicksand / Rural Rhyrhm / 2:46

11:57 PM / NewFound Road / Piledriver / Same Old Place / Rounder / 2:40

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Traditional Ties, 25 Years in 2110

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Bands gather at Paramount Center to pay tribute to bluegrass legend

BY TOM NETHERLAND
SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Just a little man with a mountainous legacy.
Friends and neighbors, that’s Ralph Stanley.
Sixty-three years after he first played in Bristol with his late brother, Carter, Stanley was honored in a tribute Sunday afternoon at the Paramount Center here.
Presented by the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance to benefit the Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center in Clintwood, Va., the show featured a mix of country, bluegrass and gospel music with a dash of Hollywood tossed in, too.
Call it a tribute to a titan.
Stanley’s 17-year-old grandson, Nathan Stanley, organized, emceed, and sang a pack of fine songs.
“I want to make this an annual thing, paying tribute to my papaw, Dr. Ralph Stanley,” Nathan said. More...

Bluegrass performers Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum at Old Town Center on April 17 @ 7:00PM

Will headline after the Water to Wine Festival from 3-7PM
Sedona AZ - One of the great country, bluegrass vocalists of our time, Laurie Lewis, will be joined by mandolin/guitarist Tom Rozum to headline the Second Annual Water to Wine Festival at Old Town Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 17th. The festival that features 6 Verde Valley Vintners with wine tasting, entertainment and an expert wine panel will happen from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum will take the theater stage at OTCA at 7:00 PM. Join us for this great spring day in Old Town Cottonwood. Now, more details about the concert.

Legend is not always loud. Particularly in the beneath-the-radar sub streams of American folk music and bluegrass, it is bestowed more by whispered word-of-mouth, over years and decades, than by the hurried hype and ballyhoo of the pop mainstream. You can't measure Laurie Lewis's 30-year career with the usual commercial yardsticks. A stirring vocalist, gifted songwriter, champion fiddler, and topnotch bandleader, she has won a Grammy, for "True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe," in 1997, and twice been named Female Vocalist of the Year by the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Associatin
When you go:

What: Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum

When: Saturday, April 17th at 7:00PM

Where: Old Town Center for the Arts, 5th and Main in Old Town Cottonwood

Cost: $18 advance $22 door, $18 Seniors

Info: (928) 634-0940 http://www.http//oldtowncenter.org

If you listen down the back roads of acoustic Americana, however, you'll soon realize this soft-spoken, sweet-singing California fiddler, singer and songwriter is something very special. With nearly 20 solo, duo, and band albums to her credit, she has just released Blossoms, on Spruce and Maple Music, a winning collection of originals and covers that explores new territory while remaining true to her beloved Americana roots. More...

Rare Jerry Garcia Recordings at David Grisman’s Acoustic Oasis

David Grisman, who has released his music for 20 years through his Acoustic Disc label, has created the new website http://acousticoasis.com/. According to Grisman, the site features “new and previously unreleased projects that are now available to you as high-quality digital downloads, exclusively through this site. All projects include downloadable graphics (CD covers, tray cards and labels) and cost is less than most other download sites.”


Acoustic Oasis’s initial offerings include extended versions of Acoustic Disc projects like the 170-minute Extra Large Pizza Tapes with Grisman, Jerry Garcia, as well as Tony Rice Bluegrass Quintet recordings, educational materials and out- of-print albums like jazzmaster Don Stiernberg’s Mandolin Restaurant. The website also features new Oasis recording by Josh Pinkham and Texas swing legend Jerry Thomasson.

Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby picked for $1.5M grant

By Julie Rose

A museum to honor bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs and his hometown of Shelby, North Carolina has received a $1.5 million grant from the federal government.

With unemployment of more than 15 percent and textile jobs in decline, Cleveland County could use an economic boost. A community group called Destination Cleveland County is hoping banjo music will do the trick.
The Earl Scruggs Center for Songs and Stories of the Carolina Foothills got a big vote of confidence this week from the U.S. Department of Commerce with a $1.5 million economic development grant. That's one of the larger grants given by the Economic Development Administration and the single largest donation to the Earl Scruggs Center so far.
Destination Cleveland County Executive Director Emily Epley says the entire project will cost about $6 million. Fundraising is now two-thirds complete. The group plans to renovate the old county courthouse in downtown Shelby and have exhibits featuring Scruggs as an archetype of the industry and musical innovation for which Cleveland County is known. Read on...

Musicians salute legend Ralph Stanley

TOM NETHERLAND

SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER

Published: April 8, 2010

Make way for the king of mountain music.
Ralph Stanley.
Nearly 64 years after he and brother Carter debuted on the “Farm and Fun Time Show” on WCYB in Bristol, Va., as the Stanley Brothers, Stanley will be honored with a tribute in Bristol.
“He’s one hell of a man,” said Ben “Cooter” Jones, who will appear at the show.
Scheduled for April 11, the BCMA presents “A Tribute to Ralph Stanley” at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, Tenn. Conceived by Stanley’s grandson, Nathan Stanley, the show will benefit the Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center in Clintwood, Va.
“I knew the museum was having some hard times,” Nathan Stanley said last week. “So, I thought it was the least I could do for my papaw.”
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys headline. Son Ralph Stanley II, grandson Nathan Stanley, Stella Parton, Paul Williams and the Victory Trio, Ben “Cooter” Jones, Grand Ole Opry star Jack Greene and Tim Stafford round out the bill. Read more...

Traditional Ties, 04/11/10, Playlist

Contact info for new adds:
Audie Blaylock - http://www.audieblaylock.com/ - http://ruralrhythm.com/web/
Doyle Lawson - http://www.doylelawson.com/ - http://www.crossroadsmusic.com/

Air Time, Artist Name, Song Title, Album Name, Label, Duration

10:00 PM, Kenny Baker, Jerusalem Ridge (Theme), Plays Bill Monroe, County, 2:00

10:02 PM, Audie Blaylock, Cryin' Heart Blues, Cryin' Heart Blues, Rural Rhyrhm, 2:13

10:05 PM, The Grasscals, The Last Train to Clarksville, The Famous Lefty Fynn's,  Rounder, 2:59

10:08 PM, Darren Beachley, Love You Don't Know, Cannot Hurt You, CD Single, Patuxent,, 4:08

10:12 PM Jim Lloyd You Can't Plant an Onion Upside Down, Songs from My Attic, Mountain Roads, 2:56

10:17 PM, Steep Canyon Rangers, Have Mercy, Deep in the Shade, Rebel, 3:12

10:20 PM, Grasstowne, Heartbreak Express, The Other Side of Towne, Pinecastle, 2:53

10:23 PM, Claire Lynch, My Florida Sunshine, Whatcha You Gonna Do, Rounder, 3:00

10:26 PM, Adam Steffey, Deep Rough,, One More for the Road Sugar Hill, 2:57

10:30 PM, Doyle Lawson, Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly, Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly, Horizon, 2:33

10:34 PM, Doyle Lawson, In Your Arms, Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly, Horizon, 4:18

10:39 PM, Doyle Lawson, Teddy Bear Revival, Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly, Horizon, 3:26

10:43 PM, Doyle Lawson, Zion Medley, Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly, Horizon, 4:33

10:48 PM, Audie Blaylock, He Is Near, Cryin' Heart Blues, Rural Rhythm, 3:12

10:51 PM, NewFound Road ,I Am the Man Thomas, Same Old Place, Rounder, 2:59

10:54 PM, Paul Williams, Living the Right Life Now, Just a Little Closer Home, Rebel, 2:19

10:56 PM, Don Rigsby, One Prayer Away, Voice of God, Rebel, 2:29

11:00 PM, True Bluegrass, With Care from Someone (Theme,) True Bluegrass 1979, True Bluegrass, 2:00

11:02 PM, Audie Blaylock, All I Can Do Is Pretend, Cryin' Heart Blues, Rural Rhythm, 3:43

11:06 PM, Audie Blaylock, Matches, Cryin' Heart Blues, Rural Rhythm, 2:52

11:09 PM, Audie Blaylock, Troubles 'round My Door, Cryin' Heart Blues, Rural Rhythm, 1:43

11:12 PM, Audie Blaylock, Rummie's Run, Cryin' Heart Blues, Rebel, 2:36

11:15 PM, Ruth & Max Bloomquist, Daddy Was an Old Man, Turn Back a Page, Ruby, 3:25

11:18 PM, Brand New Strings, Merry Go Round, No Strings Attached, Rural Rhythm, 2:00

11:20 PM, Special Consensus, Too Late Now, Signs, Pinecastle, 3:43

11:24 PM, Snyder Family Band, Faded Love, Comin' on Strong, Mountain Roads, 4:13

11:29 PM, Del McCoury, I Remember You, Family Circle, McCoury Music, 2:27

11:31 PM, Randy Kohrs, More About John Henry, Quicksand, Rural Rhythm, 3:36

11:35 PM, Big Country Bluegrass, The Boys in Hats and Ties, Single, TBA ,2:25

11:37 PM, The Allegheny Drifters, Mind Your Own Business, Can't Wait, The Allegheny Drifters, 3:09

11:43 PM, Johnny Williams, Last Day of Galax, Last Day of Galax, Mountain Roads, 5:00

11:48 PM, Dailey & Vincent, Flowers on the Wall, Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers, Cracker Barrel, 2:24

11:50 PM, The Chapmans, Love's Gonna Live Here, Grown Up, Compass, 2:58

11:53 PM, Chris Warner, Goin' to the Dance, Goin' to the Dance ,Patuxent, 3:17

11:57 PM, Blue Shades, Catawa, Chasing Dreams, Blue Shades, 2:39


JOHN TROUT, WYEP FM, PITTSBURGH, PA. tties91@hotmail.com

'TRADITIONAL TIES'- NEW REL - EASE BLUEGRASS WITH FEATURES. 91.3 WYEP, http://www.wyep.org 10:00 PM Eastern Time (U.S.) Sundays. Streaming Audio

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'TRADITIONAL TIES' - 25 YEARS IN 2010
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RIP - Sally Gray

We have received word that Sally Gray, wife of bassist Tom Gray passed away yesterday (Monday.)

We express our sincere sympathy to Tom and his family.

Arrangements:
Visitation Saturday April 10, 2 - 4 PM, Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Blvd. West, Silver Springs MD. 20901

Funeral service - Sunday 3:00 PM, Palisades Community Church, 5200 Cathedral Ave. NW, Washington DC.

Interment private.