Take This Hammer – from Mashville Brigade
We have a fun promotion that will start later this week in conjunction with tomorrow’s (3/22) release of Bluegrass Smash Hits Volume 1 from The Mashville Brigade. This is the side-gig featuring five of Nashville’s top pickers who get together on Tuesday nights to perform bluegrass favorites at The Station Inn.
Members include Jim Van Cleve on fiddle (Mountain Heart), Ashby Frank on mandolin (Special Consensus), Aaron McDaris on banjo (Grascals), Randy Barnes on bass (NewFound Road) and Darrell Webb on guitar (Rhonda Vincent).
The first single release from the CD is their remake of the Flatt & Scruggs classic, Take This Hammer, and we will be offering one lucky reader of The Bluegrass Blog the chance to win an autographed copy of the new CD, plus their very own personally signed claw hammer! Nine other winners will also get a signed CD.
Anyone who enters the contest will also be able to download a free, MP3 copy of Take This Hammer from the new CD.
Entries will begin on Wednesday and the winners will be notified next week. Their will be no cost to enter and the contest will be open to all registered users on The Bluegrass Blog.
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Don't forget to sign up to win in our Mashville Brigade Take This Hammer contest. Ten winners will receive an autographed copy of the band's debut CD, Bluegrass Smash Hits Volume 1, and one extra-luck grand prize winner will also receive a fully-functional clawhammer, signed by the members of the band...
Yesterday (3/22) saw the release of Bluegrass Smash Hits Volume 1 from The Mashville Brigade.
Most every Tuesday evening the guys perform at the Station Inn there in Nashville, TN. Last night was no different, except that the usual performance doubled as a CD release party.
The first single release...
Speaking of contests...
Here are the lucky winners in our recent The Mashville Brigade Take This Hammer promotion. Each will receive an autographed copy of the band's debut release Bluegrass Smash Hits Volume 1, courtesy of Rural Rhythm Records.
Margaret Benson - Caspar, WY
Brent Dingus - Lebanon,...
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