Creative Caffeine: Nashville Recording Studio

Everyone knows Jeff is the accordion player to call… but wow!  We love his piano playing quite a bit too!

The Nashville Potato Guns recording their upcoming release… wow!  Wait till you hear these guys!

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The Infamous Stringdusters are the new vanguard of acoustic music. Well crafted songs, vivid arrangements, instrumental virtuosity, stunning improvisation, unique individuality and complete harmony… Bluegrass, Rock, Country, Blues, Folk, and Jazz, the “IS” is American Acoustic Music.

Catch the band as they play for the Bluegrass Underground radio taping held down in the Cumberland Caverns Volcano Room, near Fall Creek Falls State Park, in Middle, Tennessee.

Visit BluegrassUnderground.com to purchase tickets.

Bluegrass Underground is taped live 333 feet below ground at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville Tn inside of what was named by the first people to behold the natural amphitheatre, The Volcano Room. Here water and time entwined 3.5 million years ago to create one of the most acoustically pure natural spaces on earth. No man-made sound reaches the Volcano Room and the living rock hued amid the eons is jagged and uneven, providing limited echo.

The primordial silence and perpetual darkness give way each month to the sounds of the finest music of the greatest bluegrass musicians on earth. Regardless of outside temperature, the Volcano Room is a constant 56 degrees.

Your experience at Bluegrass Underground begins at Cumberland Caverns in the light of day. Tour guides lead you through the cave entrance and into another world. Your subterranean descent takes you past underground pools and waterfalls and to the Volcano Chamber where you will enjoy music in a venue unlike any other you are likely to ever experience And don’t worry about silencing your cellphone…you won’t find any service here.

Buy tickets and view schedule:

Bluegrass Underground: Bluegrass music from Cumberland Caverns broadcast live on WSM 650: Venue

The following from bluegrassblog.com… makes me sick to even think about.  Chris is a great player and I was admiring his mandolin during his official showcase.   You can’t hide that mando for long, let’s find this petty theif!  Help spread the word.

 IBMA is mostly an old family homecoming, but there are a few bad apples in the barrel, so to speak. It seems one of them was wondering around the Renaissance Friday morning.

Chris Harris, who plays mandolin with Junior Sisk and Rambler’s Choice, is reporting that someone stole his Gibson Adam Steffey Model mandolin Friday morning around 5AM. The instrument was stolen from the 18th floor of the Nashville Renaissance Hotel.

The mandolin is a limited edition, number 29 of 50.

Chris has the Bill of Sale, Certificate of Authenticity, and has filed a police report with the Nashville authorities. The instrument is not only expensive, it carries a great deal of sentimental value as well.

If anyone has any information or spots this instrument for sale, please contact Chris immediately at 336-613-6998.

The Bluegrass Blog » Stolen Instrument: Gibson Adam Steffey #29: bluegrass music news

Bonnaroo, it was nice knowing you.

We’ll miss your gray market economy, with Frisbee-chucking weirdos selling burritos, beer and mystery balloons from the back of Econoline vans. We’ll miss the way you blended hippie jam bands like Rusted Root with indie rock bands like Death Cab for Cutie and the resultant nine-car social pile up that ensued. Hell, we’ll even miss the sunstroke and smell of the non-VIP camping area.

But it’s all over now. You could have had yourself a nice little time with David Cross in the comedy tent, dozens of stoners mesmerized by “The Big Lebowski” and maybe a nice Phil Lesh/Lupe Fiasco duet, but no. You got greedy. You wanted a big-time name near the top of the bill. You had to go cock things up and get Metallica.

Let there be no question: Metallica will kill Bonnaroo. When they’re done, Manchester, Tenn. will be a post-apocalyptic swath of scorched farmland, burned out VW Microbuses and tufts of shredded hair yanked from hipster beards. Why, you ask? Because this band is like Rogue from the X-Men, it kills everything it touches. Here are five solid examples to ponder before the special brownies kick in.

Full Article:
Five Reasons Why Metallica Will Doom Bonnaroo Forever – Esquire