The American Bluegrass Masters
Bobby Osborne and J.D. Crowe are hitting the road, together. The two legends are planning to tour as part of The American Bluegrass Masters concert tour. Organizers are stating this is the first time in 50 years that Crowe and Osborne have toured together. The tour is being promoted as featuring Living Legends & Next Generation Stars.
The Masters band for the tour consists of:
- Bobby Osborne – mandolin
- JD Crowe – banjo
- Dean Osborne – banjo and guitar
- Bobby Osborne Jr. – bass and guitar
- Richard Bennett – guitar
- Curtis Burch – resophonic/steel guitar
- JP Mathes – banjo, guitar, bass
In addition to the Masters band, the Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music Ensemble is on the tour as well. The ensemble consists of:
- Obadiah (Obe) Golding – banjo
- Andrew DeKemper – resophonic/steel guitar
- Katherine Boguss – fiddle
No tour dates have been announced yet. Booking information is available at opus3artists.com.
Email This Post
| Print | Top | 1 Comment
Rounder has announced January 20, 2009 as the release date for a new project from Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press.
Bluegrass & Beyond will feature 12 new tracks from Bobby and his band (Bobby Osborne Jr. on bass, Dana Cupp on banjo, Richard Bennett on guitar, and David Crow on fiddle),...
Bobby Osborne's second CD release with his new band, Rocky Top X-Press, is due from Rounder Records on July 10. Bluegrass Melodies will showcase the soulful voice and mandolin prowess of this 75 year old music legend.
The new CD was produced by Osborne and Glen Duncan, and includes three new original...
Pinecastle has wonderful news for fans of The Osborne Brothers. They are set to release a 3 disk set recorded on July 30, 1989 in Streekermoor, Germany entitled, appropriately enough, The Osborne Brothers: Live In Germany. Tom Riggs at Pinecastle says that this is just the first of several unreleased...
Wichita Rutherford is reporting this morning on the latest lawsuit to involve a bluegrass celebrity.
Bobby Osborne has reportedly been sued for $16 million, in a suit claiming he caused irreparable hearing damage to a listener's ears, when hitting the high note in Ruby. The suit alleges that the note,...
Bobby Osborne, and the Rocky Top X-Press, were in the studio last year working on a new CD titled Try a Little Kindness. He is planning a release date of February 28, 2006, on the Rounder Records label.
I was able to speak with Bobby via email and he told me that the CD features some of his current...
The hot link to Masters of the Five Sting Banjo fails.
The address for this excellent book is: http://www.acutab.com/artists/masters/masters.html
<> Buy it, read it, enjoy it.
<>Mark...
Pinecastle Records has released the live concert video of The Osborne Brothers at Renfro Valley on DVD. The performance, recorded in 1994 and released on VHS video in 1997, features Sonny and Bobby with Terry Eldridge on guitar and vocals, and Terry Smith on bass, both currently with The Grascals. The...
Among the forthcoming releases from Rounder Records is Bobby Osborne's third album for the label. Entitled Bluegrass & Beyond (Rounder 0603), the CD is scheduled to be available for general purchase on March 31.
For this 12-track album, Osborne, with his band The Rocky Top X-Press, mixes straight...
Bobby Osborne will be the special guest tomorrow (1/5) on the Muldoon In The Afternoon show on WorldWideBluegrass.com.
Bobby will join host Gracie Muldoon at 1:30 p.m. (EST) to discuss his plans for 2007, and his long and storied career in bluegrass music.
You can hear the interview online on WWB,...
Leave a comment
Comments are open and unmoderated for our registered users, only your first comment will require approval before publication. Comments do not necessarily reflect the views of The Bluegrass Blog. Obscene, abusive, silly, or annoying remarks may be deleted, but the fact that particular comments remain on the site in no way constitutes an endorsement of their content by The Bluegrass Blog.
[...] Read the full story on The Bluegrass Blog [...]
You must