News Round Up: Bruce Robison Video Diary, E.C. and Orna Ball Tribute
- Check out the video tour diary from Bruce Robison as he Robert Earl Keen, Todd Snider proceed up and down the East Coast and back into Texas on their Barstool Tour.
- Linda Lee at the super Willie Nelson blog StillIsStillMoving.com interviews Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck.
- Check out the excellent videos of Casey Driessen’s 5-string fiddle hunt video over at Bluegrass Blog.
- Steel guitarist Robert D. Norred, one-time member of Hank Williams’ backing band for a short period in the late 1940s, died Sunday, Oct. 25.
- Face A Frowning World (Available 12/8 – Tompkins Square) is a tribute to the old-timey and gospel music of E.C. Ball and his wife Orna. The couple were lesser known contemporaries of the Carter Family and seldom ventured far from their home on the Virginia-North Carolina boarder (in Rugby, VA) where they owned a general store and service station. Featured performance by Jon Langford, The Handsome Family (offered as a download below), Michael Hurley, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, the Health & Happiness Family Gospel Band of Louisville, Kentucky, and many others.
Jenny Jenkins by The Handsome Family
When I Get Home I’m Gonna Be Satisfied by Jon Langford
Steel guitarist Robert D. Norred, one-time member of Hank Williams’ backing band for a short period in the late 1940s, died Sunday, Oct. 25.
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