Two brothers on a houseboat on a river in Kentucky

Station inn calendar January 2-10

January 2
Chris Stapleton & Friends
$10

January 3
Jeff White, Micheal Cleveland, Charlie Cushman
$10

January 4
Bluegrass Jam
$0

January 5
The Time Jumpers(C&W Swing)
$10

January 6
MashvilleBrigade
$10

January 7
JimLauderdale
$10

January 8
BluegrassRescue
$10

January 9
Clare Lynch Band
$12

January 10
Deanie Richardson, Dale Ann Bradley, Beth Lawrence, Gina Britt
$10

Station Inn calendar August 6-9

August 6
Off The Wagon
$5

August 7
Chatham County Line
$10

August 8
Shawn Camp, Mike Bub & Friends
$12

August 9
Nashville Bluegrass Band
$10

Station Inn calendar June 9-14

June 9
The Time Jumpers
(Country & Western Swing)
$10

June 10
The Doyle And Debbie Show
7 PM,
$20
MashvilleBrigade
9:30 PM,
$8

June 11
ShannonWhitworth
$8

June 12
TheGreencards
$15

June 13
Steep Canyon Rangers
$12

June 14
TheSteeldrivers
$15

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Kentucky Bourbon and Bluegrass

We fashioned our itinerary in the style of a bluegrass song: a defined structure but with ample room for improvisation. During the first part of the trip, we would hit the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, a whiskey version of California’s Napa Valley made up of seven distilleries (Maker’s among them) that are open to the public. Our final stop would be the sixth annual Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration in Rosine, the birthplace of Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. It was in the central part of the state, in the rolling hills between Lexington and Louisville — where a layer of limestone filters the iron from the water, making it ideal for bourbon making — that Scotch-Irish distillers settled in the early 1800s. They had fled west to the area of Bourbon County, Kentucky, from Pennsylvania and Virginia in the wake of George Washington’s imposed tax on whiskey in 1791 and the subsequent Whiskey Rebellion. One such early distiller, the mellifluously named Elijah Pepper, began operating in 1812 in an area west of Lexington that is now thoroughbred country. Today, the distillery, a cluster of old stone buildings nestled in a shallow valley along a creek, is home to Woodford Reserve, the easternmost point on the Bourbon Trail.



In a clever bit of marketing, Woodford calls itself “Kentucky’s most historic distillery,” but the brand dates only to 1996, when Brown-Forman (which also owns Jack Daniel’s in Tennessee) decided to create a small-batch bourbon, having earlier restored the buildings. Woodford allows visitors to see the entire bourbon-making process, from mash to bottle; our tour began in earnest in the fermentation room, in a 200-year-old limestone building at the foot of a hill.



Read the entire article in the New York Times.

Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas- Concert Review

Anyone expecting straightforward bluegrass from Jerry Douglas on dobro, Edgar Meyer on bass and Sam Bush on mandolin or fiddle got just a little bit of it on Wednesday night. At the end of the trio’s concert at Zankel Hall, the musicians breezed through a banjo tune. Before then, nearly all the music they played was poised comfortably between genres: deeply rooted in bluegrass technique but toying with the parameters and options of string-band music.

The trio’s members were as attentive to structure and sonic detail as any chamber-music ensemble, while their tunes conjured mountain music’s Celtic roots along with blues, reggae, jazz and the modes of Eastern European or Middle Eastern music. Between the exquisite compositions, they cracked jokes.



The three musicians have calibrated the ways they share textures; in one piece, mandolin and dobro pinged 16th notes back and forth, perfectly staggered at top speed, and in another, a bowed drone on Mr. Meyer’s bass brought out somber resonances.

But the trio was after more than good-timey grins and thrills. Their music was thinking all the time, just not getting pretentious about it.



Read the entire review in the New York Times.

You Don't Know Who Jeff Coffin Is?!?!?!

Check this out!!! ~C.S. Webbspun

Jeff Coffin is Coming to Nashville

Yeah man, dig this!!! Yeehaahaha

~C.S. Webbspun

Drew Emmitt Band at The Exit/In

August 8, 2007
8:00PM - $10.00

You've seen them acoustic-style, but are you ready to hear the Drew Emmit Band 'Lectric Style? That's right - Drew is "plugging in" and playing that electric-bluegrass sound pioneered by Leftover Salmon 15 years+ ago! Drew is going to break out the electric guitar in addition to the mandolin.

Drew Emmitt, the dynamic lead singer and mandolin player with the popular jamband Leftover Salmon, is a true renaissance man on musical instruments. Playing mandolin, guitar, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, flute and electric guitar, he's a string man to be reckoned with. Fresh off a Leftover Salmon reunion gig with Moe, Drew is making a stop in Nashville with band members Tyler Grant (guitar), Steve Sandifer (drums), and Ben Bernstein (bass).

Don't miss this opportunity to see the Drew Emmitt Band showcase the strength of Drew's bluegrass musicianship and the power, spontaneity, and celebratory elements of the Salmon concerts!