What is it with bluegrass mandolin legends taking fan questions and answering them online?
Doyle Lawson and Sam Bush are both posting YouTube videos with answers to submitted questions. Here’s Sam’s latest, where he answers a query about how he approaches a jam situation.
You can see all the Sam Bush videos on his YouTube channel.
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The Ask Doyle webisode series continues today with #3, wherein Doyle Lawson answers fan-submitted questions about his mandolins, his footwear collection and songs that have been submitted for consideration by the band.
You can submit your own question for future episodes by simply adding a comment...
In which Doyle Lawson answers the burning question, "What's on your iPod?"
As Doyle says at the end of this short clip, he encourages everyone to submit questions for him to answer in his Ask Doyle episodes, which will be posted each Friday.
There will be a trivia contest at the end of this webisode...
Here is the latest episode of Ask Doyle, where Doyle Lawson answers questions from fans about his long career in bluegrass music.
This week he talks about The Bluegrass Album Band - how this star-studded group came to be and how they chose material for each of their six earthshaking albums.
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Here is the final webisode in the Ask Doyle series, with Doyle Lawson talking about what keeps him going after so many years as a professional bluegrass entertainer.
This will be the last Q&A video with Doyle answering questions from fans. The next video will go the other way - Doyle will have...
Sam Bush answers the question, "Where did you find all those wonderful musicians in your band?"
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Sam Bush has two new videos on YouTube, sharing what has been consuming much of his time this year so far.
First up is a sneak peek at the recording of his upcoming Sugar Hill CD, which he has told us will be much more of an acoustic project than his last few albums. He won't be playing any electrified...
With more than 75,000 music lovers in attendance - a great many with video recorders of some kind - it should come as no surprise that dozens of videos shot at Merlefest 2008 have popped up on YouTube.
Of course at such an eclectic festival, the offerings range from old time bluegrass...
...to...
Sam Bush has a couple of new YouTube videos. The first finds the camera behind the scenes at the photo shoot for Sam's upcoming Sugar Hill CD, Circles Around Me, due on October 20.
In an interview we did with Sam back in April, he let on that this new project would mark a return to the sort of bluegrass/newgrass...
We've posted a number of times recently about the special Nashville Symphony concert this weekend, billed as Classical Americana. It will feature a number of prominent bluegrass and Americana artists performing with the Symphony, including Sam Bush, Alison Brown, Byron House and several others.
Sam...
In support of his new Rounder CD, Lonely Street, Doyle Lawson has launched a weekly online video series called Ask Doyle, where fans are encouraged to submit question which Doyle will answer online.
The first episode is in the form of a "behind-the-scenes" peek at an interview Lawson did with Bill...
Sam Bush was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday night by the Americana Music Association. His trophy was a handpainted Gibson mandolin - one of the new Sam Bush Limited Edition Inspired By ‘34 Fern models announced earlier this year.
Here's Sam backstage at the Opry contemplating...
Last month, we posted about Sam Bush appearing on The Tonight Show (with Emmy Lou Harris) in support of his then newly-released CD, Laps In Seven.
I just noticed that someone has made a video of Sam's Tonight Show performance available on YouTube, for anyone who didn't catch the show live....
This afternoon, I had a lovely chat with Lynn Morris and Marshall Wilborn. Longtime bluegrass fans are well familiar with Lynn’s many years as a performer, bandleader and friend to our music, and we all felt a great loss when she suffered a stroke in Match of 2003, keeping her off the road and out [...]
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