Listen to The Rosinators on Jango

You can now listen to The Rosinators on Jango, an online
radio station where you can choose the artists you'd like
included in the playlist - or create your own station



http://www.jango.com/music/The+Rosinators

Sign up (for free) to hear tracks by The Rosinators,
Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Ralph Stanley,
The Stanley Brothers, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits,
Steve Earle, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Old & In The
Way, Ricky Skaggs, Norman Blake , Lester Flatt & Earl
Scruggs, Old Crow Medicine Show, Alison Krauss, The
Cox Family, Tony Rice, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings,
Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sister
Rosetta Tharpe, The Louvin Brothers, Tim O'Brien,
John Hartford, Del McCoury + any artists you add!

And please click the "I'm a fan" button if you feel so inclined!
http://www.jango.com/music/The+Rosinators

Carrie Rodriguez

Carrie Rodriguez performs 'Absence'
from her album "She Ain't Me"
/ Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com

Orange Blossom Special - new video by The Bluegrass Babies

Flo, Mo and Bo of The Bluegrass Babies are back with
their latest video - this time a foot-stomping version of
'Orange Blossom Special' featuring special guests The
Toybox Singers and Hottie McScottie (on second fiddle),
with Dwight Quackman & His Chickedee Dancers


[soundtrack: 'Orange Blossom Special' by The Rosinators - lyrics & song history]

For news, reviews, photos, etc.,
visit the Babies on Facebook

New Doc Watson Biography just published

  "Blind But Now I See -
  The Biography of Music
  Legend Doc Watson"
  by Kent Gustavson
  (Blooming Twig Books)
  368 pages, paperback

  Amazon.co.uk
  Amazon.com

  "A no-holds barred
  biography of bluegrass’
  great hero and
  flatpicking legend"




Featuring brand new interviews with:
Ben Harper, Michelle Shocked, Warren Haynes, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Tom Paxton, Maria Muldaur, John Cohen, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Abigail Washburn, Ketch Secor, Marty Stuart, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, Pat Donohue, Peter Rowan, Si Kahn, Tommy Emmanuel, Tony Trischka, Greg Brown, Guy Clark, Don Rigsby, David Grisman, Alice Gerrard, Alan O’Bryant, Edgar Meyer, Guy Davis, Jack Lawrence, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Jerry Douglas, Jonathan Byrd, Larry Long, Paddy Maloney And Many More

Doc Watson singing "Goin' Down That Road" at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival

Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones

Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson performing
the title track of their album at the 36th CMA Awards.

One Kind Favor

Just added more audio and video tracks to The Rosinators'
One Kind Favor song history page. You can now listen to
versions by Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Two Poor Boys,
The Carter Family, Hobart Smith, Lightnin' Hopkins, Dave
Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, BB King, Peter Paul and Mary, Canned
Heat, Kelly Joe Phelps and The Blind Boys of Alabama with
John Hammond Jr.

The videos include a guitar lesson from Stefan Grossman
and this performance by Mavis Staples

In My Time of Dyin'

Just added two videos to The Rosinators' In My Time Of Dyin' lyrics/song history page - versions by The Lovell Sisters and The Be Good Tanyas


In My Time of Dyin' by The Lovell Sisters
from their album 'Time To Grow'
/ Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com


In My Time of Dying by The Be Good Tanyas
(from their album 'Chinatown')
/ Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com

'My Saviour, My Sin' by Prescott

Great harmonies by Canadian brother and sister
Kelly and Kaylen Prescott from Ottawa.

Man of Constant Sorrow by Martin Tallstrom

Brilliant fingerpicking from Swedish Acoustic
guitarist Martin Tallstrom

Stuart Duncan on BBC4's "Transatlantic Sessions"

Brilliant US fiddler Stuart Duncan appeared in the
latest series of BBC Four's Transatlantic Sessions.
Here he is, with Jerry Douglas on dobro, Russ Barenberg
on guitar and Danny Thompson on bass, playing "Lee
Highway Blues" -

Just Published! Dr Ralph Stanley's Autobiography "Man of Constant Sorrow"

"Dr. Ralph Stanley’s funny, sad, gossipy behind-the-scenes autobiography, 'Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times'.
This is not the man of few words you see in concert and
at merchandise tables. Here he talks at length about
his fatherless childhood, his heroic mother, his brother
Carter’s musical brilliance and fatal alcohol addiction.
He pays his respects to such legendary Clinch Mountain Boys
as George Shuffler, Roy Lee Centers and the effervescent
Curly Ray Cline. And Ralph devotes an entire chapter to
his friendship with Bill Monroe. Then there are the
harrowing and hilarious tales of the road, the accidents
and miraculous near misses. It’s a grand and glorious
summation of a musical life well lived."

Review in the New York Times (Oct 13, 09)

Available from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com

Listen to 'Man of Constant Sorrow' by
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
[from the album 'Man of Constant Sorrow']


/ Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com

Listen to the 2009 IBMA Bluegrass Award Winners

10 song mix of tracks by the winners of this year's
International Bluegrass Music Association Awards -
including Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Dailey
& Vincent, Dan Tyminski, etc - see full list of
winners on the IBMA site - take a listen here

"Greens and sidepork" mix

Great mix on 8tracks featuring Big Mama Thornton,
John Lee Hooker, Dr John and more - listen here

The Bluegrass Babies Are BackWith A New Video

"Hush Little Baby" performed by Paul Castle,
vocals, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, drums
Beverly Baxter on harmony vocals & triangle

YouTube Link (please comment/share):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRXCI_Kxmiw

Hush Little Baby lyrics

Bayou Blend - Tab Benoit, Professor Longhair, Rosie Ledet and more

Love brave_margot's "Bayou Blend" - a twelve
track mix of cajun, zydeco and nawlin's blues

Hymn #101 by Joe Pug

Hymn #101 by Joe Pug
[from 'The Nation of Heat' EP]

Alabama 3, James Taylor, Neil Young & many more all playing gigs in the UK this month

Listen to the 22 song mix here
[see artist links @ On Tour Across the Pond]

Canadian Comfort Podcast hosted by Gail Comfort

Our good friend, radio DJ Gail Comfort, has recently left London to go back to her home town of Winnipeg in Canada. We'll really miss her. Fortunately she'll continue doing her weekly alt-country show 'The Comfort Zone' on CMR Nashville and she's just released the first two episodes of her new Canadian Comfort podcast featuring all Canadian artists - great stuff! Take a listen -

Website/download        iTunes Listen Now Episode 1 Episode 2

Bluegrassy - Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Avett Brothers and more

Don't miss this wonderful mix by saraht on 8tracks which includes tracks by Bela Fleck, Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus & Tim O'Brien, Tony Furtado and Dirk Powell, Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg & Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush & David Grisman, The Avett Brothers, Emmylou, Alison & Gillian and more.

The Rosinators, Doc Watson, The Stanley Brothers & more