Taylor/Sebastian online today
Two 24/7 online bluegrass channels offer up live interviews today (4/4) that may be of interest.
Wayne Taylor will be stopping by for a chat with Katy Daley at 9:00 a.m. on WAMU’s Bluegrass Country. Taylor spent 20 years performing in the US Navy Band Country Current, and has been a fixture in the DC bluegrass scene just as long. As Brance told us in a post last week, Taylor is recently retired from the Navy, has a new CD, Dear Mom, and will be performing with Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band.
It sounds like he and Katy will have plenty to discuss.
Over at WorldWideBluegrass.com this afternoon at 1:00 p.m., John Sebastian will join Gracie Muldoon for an interview. The former pop star (Loving Spoonful) and successful solo artist has teamed up with David Grisman for a CD of acoustic duets called Satisfied. All the songs were recorded live in the studio, a mix of folk, blues and traditional music. You can read more about the CD in our post from last fall.
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The debut, self-titled CD from Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa is now available.
Taylor is familiar to bluegrass lovers from his 24 years with Country Current, the US Navy Bluegrass Band, headquartered in Washington, DC. Many of those years of service were pulled alongside banjo legend Bill Emerson,...
We've posted a number of times about US Navy Band, Country Current, which regularly includes professional bluegrass musicians. The band has maintained a bluegrass unit since 1973 when Bill Emerson joined on banjo.
Bill led the band until his retirement in 1993, at which point that leadership fell...
The newest release from David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label is a duo project featuring he and John Sebastian. Entitled Satisfied, it features these two on acoustic guitar, mandolin family instruments and harmonica on a mixed set of songs and tunes. The 14 selections are taken from the repertoire of blues,...
Having spent 24 years in the U.S. Navy, 20 years and 7 months with Country Current, Wayne Taylor retired to civilian life on March 21, 2008. What does that mean for a bluegrass musicians?
Wayne is in Nashville this week at the IBMA leadership class, and says his plans are to get more involved with...
Bluegrass FM 89.5 Fredericksburg, VA and 91.7 Lynchburg, VA broadcast a five and a half minute Veterans Day feature with Master Chief Musician and unit leader Wayne Taylor of the U.S. Navy Band's "Country Current" country-bluegrass group during its morning drivetime show on Monday November 12.
Host...
Rural Rhythm has snapped up another top name in bluegrass, announcing today that Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie will release their next CD in 2010 on the California-based label.
The band is fronted by banjo legend Bill Emerson, with Wayne Lanham on mandolin, Terry Chism on bass and John Miller on...
We've posted recently about banjo man Bill Emerson's new CD, Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band, and the former member of The Country Gentlemen, The Sunny Mountain Boys and the US Navy Band's Country Current coming back to music after several years in retirement.
Country Standard Time has a wide...
The US Navy Band, Country Current, has announced an opening for the position of pedal steel guitar player in the country line up of the band. More pertinent to bluegrass music though, is the news that Master Chief Musician Wayne Taylor has made plans to retire in the early part of 2008.
Taylor's retirement...
Bluegrass banjo has been fortunate to see so many capable practitioners of the art carrying the banner over its relatively short 60 year life. One of the banjo's most celebrated champions, Bill Emerson, has been largely missing from the performing scene for several years since his retirement, though...
This coming Tuesday (10/24), you can join 5 string banjo innovator and entrepreneur Bill Keith as he is interviewed on WorldWideBluegrass.com by Becky Taylor. Her show, Out-Of-The-Box, is cybercast live over the internet from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. (EDT), and it isn't clear from the WWB site whether...
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