One of my favorite online obsessions is The Onion, a faux news site that is always funny, and often hilarious.
Yesterday, they posted a radio “news” story that may be familiar to a good many bluegrass pickers – and their neighbors!
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This morning's edition of The Onion, an often hysterical and always amusing faux news web site, carried a hilarious piece entitled Banjo Player Sought In Hootenanny Spree. It's the story of a police investigation of a string of random banjo playings in Boston.
Truck driver and banjo player Jay "Snapbean"...
Among the non-music web sites that I enjoy most regularly are ones that use satire and faux-news stories in humorous ways. Sites like The Onion and Stuff White People Like really tickle my funny bone, though with humor being such a subjective attribute, your mileage may vary.
Here's one that mixes...
We posted earlier this month with news that Vince Gill's upcoming tour would be including some bluegrass in the show. CMT.com has a news feature posted yesterday which expands on this story a bit.
We had mentioned in that earlier post that Gill was set to release a mighty ambitious project, a box...
We just received the news that Sara Evans has asked Jim Van Cleve and Clay Jones to perform with her at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards, which is being televised from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas tonight. Most of our readers should be familiar with these two pickers from their work with Mountain...
Terry Bulger over at Channel 4 News WSMV in Nashville did a story about our buddy Wichita. The story ran on the evening news segment Wednesday December 7, 2005. For those of us who didn't get to see it, Wichita has made it available as a video podcast. You can download and watch it from his website 5minuteswithwichita.com....
We posted yesterday that Ralph Stanley had been hospitalized last week with a mild case of pneumonia. We just heard from his publicist, Norma Morris, who shared this good news:
"He was in the hospital for a few days, but he is home now and preparing to go out on the road on Thursday. Just talked with...
Longtime readers of The Bluegrass Blog will have noted my fondness for The Bluegrass Intelligencer, a news parody site - a la The Onion - that focuses on personalities in the bluegrass and acoustic string world.
I find the site to be clever and uproariously funny, though you might want to be wary...
Here's the story of three guys from Florida who moved to the New River Valley in SouthWest Virginia and are reviving an old local radio station.
WNRV is located in Giles County, half way between Narrows and Pearisburg. The station's broadcast coverage area should cover from Princeton, W.Va., to Christiansburg....
Our friends at Mandolin Cafe have a hilarious post available this morning which takes advantage of the reputation of today's date, and a long-standing tradition of news parodies dated 4/1. Theirs is entitled, Bass Pro Enters Mandolin Market, and is well worth a few moments of your Saturday or Sunday...
We previously posted about the instruments stolen from the home of Gena Britt - Tew. Gena just wrote in with the great news that the instruments have been recovered and returned. Here's her email.
My instruments were recovered! Yeah!! I got them back yesterday,and am very thankful. Thought I'd send...
Blue Moon Rising won the Entertainer of the Year vote here in our unofficial reader poll last fall, and this year they're getting off to a good start. The band is featured in two recent news stories, both of them complete with video footage.
KFYR channel 5 TV in Bismarck, ND ran a story 4 days ago...
CMT.com, the online side of cable network CMT (Country Music Television), has posted a list of their Ten Favorite Bluegrass Albums of 2005.
The choices cover an interesting range of styles, and include both new and re-issue projects from legends and newcomers alike. Like any list of this sort, at...
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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