All Blog Posts Tagged 'music' (10)

Please come by and visit my new blog, Kansas Old Time Music Blog. I am hoping to be a point of information for those many people who love and play Old Time music in the Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri area around the KC metro. I would appreciate it if you would link my blog to any of yours as well. If you play Old Time Music in my area, come on by and say hello. Let me know what you think about it too. If you play in a jam… Continue

In our newest podcast Dan Miller and Beppe Gambetta talk about Beppe's current US tour, his latest CD, and some of his new developments in crosspicking. A Beppe Gambetta duet with Jim Hurst from Beppe's newest CD is also included. Check it out: http://flatpick.libsyn.com/ This month our e-Newsletter instructor Mickey Abraham has provided an arrangement of the Celtic tune "Maid Behind the Bar." This is one of those great old tunes that sh… Continue

Breaking news from Dave Nachmanoff and Al Stewart - July 23, 2009 … Continue

Finally recovered from American 09, what a great weeknd of music and fun ! Thanks to all who came and supported great guitar music in the midwest. If its not the finest weeknd of Flatpicklin , its rite up there . I have been hard at work, trying to bring the best of the best to The Bend next year, and I thought I would post about the tentative lineup as of now. Roy Curry, 2x Winfield Flatpicking Champ is on board, as is fellow 2x winner Robert Shafer, who will be doing a show with Johnny Staats… Continue

New From FGM Records: Flatpicking Bluegrass CD If you enjoyed Flatpicking Favorites: Hot & Spicy, you will love our new Flatpicking Bluegrass CD! Hard core traditional bluegrass songs combined with the best singers and guitar players in the business! An aweso… Continue

Ask Me Do you still believe in love? Do you want to feel again? Have you sealed the open door or Does your heart still beg for more? When you ask me why I stay I hold on another day Hoping you will realize My reflection in your eyes Is saying Ask Me... I know your heart can't be waiting for her Cause she made it all so clear she never cared Has she rummaged through your life and left you nothing Nothing for another love and you to share Are you dealing with the pain? Does it feel like she's t… Continue

In the May 2007 Issue of Flatpick gutar Magazine I was surprised to find that Edd Mayfield (brother to one of my schoolmates' father) had played with Bill Monore. I tracked down an album of their material and was pleased that my tiny hometown of Dimmit, Texas had ties to the Father of Bluegrass.

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Greg Morton has been a star on the bluegrass and jazz guitar scenes since the 70s. He and his twin brother, Randal, are hands down my favorite players, both for the immense talents they've so fully developed, and for their kind and generous natures. Back in September 2004 Greg recorded a CD in three evenings sitting at his kitchen table. Solo Guitar is as fine a display of musicality by a guitarist as you're likely to find. Lots of standards and most recorded with just a rhythm track, it shows… Continue

Last night Robin Kessinger, Robert Shafer, and Mark Cosgrove performed at the Peaceful Bend Americana Music Festival. The concert was filmed for an upcoming Flatpicking Guitar Magazine and FGM Records concert DVD release. The audience was treated to two shows of fabulous flatpicking music. Click Here to see photos from all performances at Peaceful Bend. Robin, Robert and Mark are all Winfield National Flatpicking Guitar Champio… Continue

Who picks and strums my old guitar picking out the fiddle tunes I half remember from some ancient time? Who's twisting in the writhing wind swaying with the blowing trees shaping shifts and shimmers in that eastern mountain sound? Oh, the sound, south hearted sound a ringing tang and metal twang a thumping bass beast rising like a pulsing heart beneath its wooden skin! Who knows this gives to quiet truth the ringing force of heaven's voice makes music of the rain that splashing pounds upon my… Continue