Listen for New Song from Carolina Road on Your Favorite Radio Program!

Just in time for Bill Monroe's birthday, the new single release,
“A Light in My Window, Again” by CAROLINA ROAD, is now out to radio via AirplayDirect.com. 

The song was written by Tom T and Dixie Hall and was inspired by Gov. Paul E. Patton’s speech at the dedication of the Bill Monroe home place.

Brother/Sister [The Roys] Take Their Bluegrass to Larger Audiences!

Rural Rhythm recording artist, THE ROYS, are on tour promoting their hot new bluegrass album, LONESOME WHISTLE including their stellar performance this past weekend at the COUNTRY THUNDER festival in Wisconsin.
This coming weekend, THE ROYS head to the Blue Moon Mountain Bluegrass Festival in Prestonsburg, Kentucky where they will join fellow Rural Rhythm label mates:  Blue Moon Rising, Cumberland River, Carolina Road, and Josh Slone & CoalTown for what is surely to be an exciting event.

Prescription Bluegrass Clinic Director Arrested – For Muscular Dystrophy !

Paul McCain, owner and operator of SuperCountryRadio.com. one of the many Internet Radio Stations that carries the  Prescription Bluegrass Program writes from the slammer….

“In case you haven’t heard, I have finally gotten caught!  I am being arrested for the Muscular Dystrophy Association on Thursday, July 28th and I need your help desperately.  I am being accused of having a “big heart” and I want to live up to that honorable distinction.  Please go to my website and make your donation or give it to me directly.  My goal is $3200, which sends 4 precious children to MDA Summer camp. Check out this video so you can see first hand what camp means to our campers”

  

Here is a real life quote from a mom…”Our daughter Demi is a radiator! She radiates courage; she radiates strength and she radiates charisma. Because you are willing to help our cause, you to are a radiator! You radiate kindness; you radiate compassion and most importantly…you radiate hope! Thank you for your generous support of MDA.”

Paul also included some camp photos

Just click here to make a donation:
https://www.joinmda.org/calhouncounty2011/mccainp
From the slammer,
Paul

Another Prescription Bluegrass Clinic Goes World-Wide!

Tom Erickson, C.E.O. and General Manager for the K-JAZZ Radio Network serving Northern Arizona announced this week that the group of stations now feed the world-wide-web with their streaming 24 hours a day. 

That means that every Saturday night at 10pm Arizona Time or Sunday morning at 08:00 GMT, you can get your first weekly dose of Prescription Bluegrass or your refill if so desired.

Brian McNeal, host of Prescription Bluegrass says the K-JAZZ Network stations were the very first clinic to offer Prescription Bluegrass and now the entire planet can experience the same Auditory Therapy every Saturday night.

The Streaming Feed can be found here:  http://stream.affordablestreaming.com:8000/KJZA.mp3.m3u
or go the the station's website and click on the LISTEN LINK at the bottom of the page.

The network also carries The Front Page Bluegrass News several times every weekend.

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings On NPR's Fresh Air!

Fresh Air's Terry Gross returns today to interview Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings about their new CD, The Harrow and The Harvest.

..."We've kind of half-jokingly said that this record is 10 different kinds of sad," Welch tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. ...

In some markets the show has already aired and will air tonight in other markets.

The transcript and audio file are already available on the NPR Website or LISTEN HERE. (Audio Player at bottom of this story).  The musical duo perform live on the show.

Gold Heart Sisters Launch Media Tour!

GOLD HEART live in concert on their Multi-Media Tour!

On July 14th, the band will kick off their tour with a live TV Interview on WJHL in Johnson City.  Followed by TV and Radio appearances throughout East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Be sure and tune in to listen to these performances!

On Thursday evening The Gold Sisters will make their third performance on the Pickin' Porch stage in Bristol, Virginia.

New Internet Radio Station Plays Bluegrass with Folk!

Note to Independent Artists and Record Labels.  AMAZ RADIO, our newest Prescription Bluegrass Affiliate is glad to mix bluegrass into their regular lineup of folk, acoustic, Americana and Independent music if they have your product.

Questions about AMAZ Radio or want to know how to get your music played?
Send an e-mail to stationmanager@amazradio.org

LISTEN to Prescription Bluegrass on AMAZ Radio every Sunday Evening at 9 Arizona Time (Monday at 04:00 GMT)

Technorati Tags: Bluegrass Radio,Internet Radio,Folk,Bluegrass,Acoustic,Americana

New Release from Steve Spurgin - "Past Perfect"

BLUE NIGHT RECORDS

 is proud to announce the release of the new

Steve Spurgin CD 

“Past Perfect”

Steve Spurgin is an internationally known and respected singer/songwriter with an extensive background in American music styles, from folk to country to bluegrass. His list of musical credits and experience could fill more than one career. All this history has suddenly come together in a powerfully recorded collection of songs that will capture the attention and imagination of the Americana music scene.

The acclaimed solo outing from bluegrass veteran and former Byron Berline & California member Spurgin, with a handpicked slate of all-star studio buddies: Dobro ace Rob Ickes, Swiss luminaries Uwe and Jens Kruger, mandolinist Adam Steffey and bassist Rusty Holloway. Ten Spurgin originals plus John Malcolm Penn's "Sasquatch" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Song for a Winter's Night

Click To Buy / Download At CDbaby.com

Click To Buy / Download at iTunes.com

Sophomore CD from Volume Five Due Out Next Month!

"Children Of The Mountain" is the title of the new CD from Volume Five on Mountain Fever Records.


Mountain Fever Records will release Volume Five's Children Of The Mountain on June 7th. "Anywhere Is Home Again", the first single from the new CD is available to radio programmers now via Airplay Direct, RadioSubmit and through a one-click download. For more information on Volume Five, please visit www.VolumeFiveBG.com or www.MountainFever.com.

NEW RIVER LINE's New Release is Benefit for Band Member Lost in Tragic Accident!

"I’m Moving On" 

is the third Kindred Records  release by New River Line, and the last studio recording of reso-guitarist Jerry Wayne Chaney, who was killed in a tragic accident during the final production of this project.

New River Line project for Jerry Wayne Chaney Memorial Scholarship

New Music From Monroeville Available Tomorrow!

Monroeville has announced the release of their EP Tomorrow! (May 17th, 2011). They have released the album cover art and track samples to help jumpstart the pre-ordering process. The pre-orders will receive an autographed copy of the EP with nine tracks and free shipping.

Listen to some samples from the EP. CLICK HERE.

Now More Bluegrass - Brand New Bluegrass Radio Station Launches This Week!

Prescription Bluegrass Featured on Brand New Radio Station!

Bluegrass fans have a brand new radio station to enjoy.  24 hours a day,  Bluegrass Planet Earth is streaming the high-lonesome over the cyber airwaves.


BluegrassPlanetEarth.com is the brainchild of  77 year-old Col. Tom Taylor a retired United States Airforce electronics engineer who said he spent so long in the service that he rose from a buck private to colonel before retirement.   As for his radio background, he's been a bluegrass and country music disc jockey for the past six years working at two stations prior to lauching his own just this week.  He's also been an Amateur Radio Operator (Ham Radio) for the last 15-20 years.