Heading Home From The MACC festival

Here it is.. Sunday morning and it's all over until next year (22-25 July 09 so mark your calendars).
The MACC festival thrilled thousands of people once again with music that makes sitting thru a rainstorm worth it! :)

We had a blast TRYING to bring to you live broadcasts of the fun at theh festival but the internet bugs could not be squashed enough to allow us to hook up and stream frm here. Soooo, with that we did what we could and talked with as many people that we could to tell them about the MIX! :)
We had probably over a thousand folks stop by the table asking about what we do, most with internet connections so they left with a promise to check us out and listen in.

We had several artists stop by the table also... Jamie Johnson of the Grascals spent about 15 minutes with us (be listening for the recorded interview during Julie Raye's show this week. Randy Kohrs spent almost an hour with us on Saturday afternoon, also recording an interview. We had fun with them there.
We talked with most of the rest of the artists during our time here at some point, getting some station ID recordings and trying to schedule other interviews.

Dwight McCall came by our campsite Friday night and talked for a while and even sat in and sang a song with us during our jam. Later that same night Aaron Till (AWESOME fiddle player) stopped by and sat in our jam for about and hour or so. We had a blast to say the least!

Julie and I took a ton of pictures and we promise to have them up for viewing as soon as we can.

Already making plans for next year's festival and we'll try our hardest to make sure we can broadcast live, one of the main purposes of us being there.. to bring the festivall closer to our listeners and help get the word out!

Keep checking the web page for news about future festivals where we may be at, would ove to meet up with more of our listeners and chat room visitors! And if you can only attend ONE festival next year.. make it the MACC. the proceeds go to St Judes Childrens Hospital and we ALL know how important that is!

Thursday night.... Broadcasting At The MACC

But only on the 24k stream as we do not have the high speed working yet.

Come on in the chat room and tune in the 24k stream to hear the fun we're having.

Hey Folks
Julie and I are at the MACC but the internet is not working here yet.

Stay tuned, we should be up and running in the morning (Fri)

Monday Monday, so good to me....

Hey Mixers,

Remember the old "Momas and the Papas" song, "Monday Monday"? Well, even though that old song is a sad song... there's no sadness on Mondays here on The Bluegrass Mix.

At this moment, it looks as though Teri Ann, Mike and I are ready for tonight's Monday Night Bluegrass Block Buster!

Hope you can join us for six hours of great Bluegrass music beginning @ 6pm Eastern time with Teri Ann, then Mike @ 8pm and I will finish the evening from 10pm to midnight.

I hope Mike Hartman is not eating strawberries this week!

;-)

Please join us tonight on The Bluegrass Mix.



Thanks,

Michael L. Browns
Deep Cut Bluegrass

Promoting Bluegrass with friends

I will be out trying to promoting bluegrass on stage versus my radio on saturday night.
I have the opportunity to sit in on a great show this saturday by my friends Tyler Williams & Marty Leedy at Bluetop in Bluefield,Wva this Saturday night.
Check these guys out!
http://virginiafolklife.org/recordings/TylerMarty/page-1.html
http://www.myspace.com/tylerwilliamsbluegrass

Tyler Williams is an aspiring Bluegrass singer originally from Marysville, Ohio. Tyler has been singing since he was two years old and has made guest appearances on stage with some of his heroes, including Ronnie Bowman, IIIrd Tyme Out, and The Lonesome River Band. Tyler became blind as an infant and also suffers from mild cerebral palsy, but he doesn't let these disabilities hold him back. Tyler is currently attending East Tenn. State University, in Johnson City, where he is majoring in the Communications program and also completing a minor in Bluegrass Performance. In the Summer of 2006, Tyler and his friend, Marty Leedy, completed their first album together, Bringing It!

See you guys on July 26th back at the Tin Roof Lounge!
Scott

Looking For "Downloadable" Older Songs...

Hey Mixers,

With all the online music services where songs may be purchased and immediately downloaded there is an amazing amount of Bluegrass Music available.

I tend to favor Amazon.com for music downloads because they don't attach DRM (Digital Rights Management) to the songs like iTunes and Windows Media do.

Amazon has a few of the older Bluegrass albums (released in the past 15 years or so) but I'm not finding some of the albums that I use to have as LPs.

Would any of you know of any other good sources for downloadable Bluegrass music other than the big three that I've mentioned?

Please email me... michaelb@bluegrassmix.com

Thanks,

Michael L. Browns
Deep Cut Bluegrass

Station Down - Server Datacenter Issues

As of the time I'm writing this the station has been down for approximately 2 hrs. Contact was made with the hosting provider and they're even helpess at the moment, seems there's a hub connection problem at the time.

The stream will be back up as soon as all of these issues have been corrected.

Thanks

Roger Randolph

Another Great Monday On The Mix....

Hey Mixers,


We had another great Monday night here on The Bluegrass Mix.... Teri Ann starting off, followed by Mike Hartman and then... there was me.

As Mike was working towards the end of his show... he talked about the fresh strawberries his wife was fixing for him and he was eating while doing his show.

I have to admit, that was so distracting... because all I could do was think about a big bowl of fresh strawberries piled high with real whipped cream. As I started my show... I was so distracted that I had troubles running the DJ equipment! As I'm typing this post.... I'm still thinking of those strawberries!

;-)

I hope all of those who were able to listen to my "Swing Grass" theme show enjoyed the songs. There were a few people in chat that asked me (via private chat) what I was playing tonight... they had never heard "swing grass" before.

The first song I played was Rhonda Vincent's "World's Biggest Fool" and one listener in the chat room had never heard Rhonda do that song before.

Of all the "Swing Grass" songs I played.... my favorite has to be the song by Kenny & Amanda Smith.... "Nancy Jane." What a fantastic job they do.... when you listen to it, pay close attention to the harmony vocals!

Granted.... there was one song that I played that was a "swing" tune but it was NOT Bluegrass but it is such a good old swing tune and pretty much a text book example... it was "Beans and Cornbread" by Louis Jordan. I'm not sure how old the song is but I'm sure it's been around for a few generations.

Here at The Bluegrass Mix... you will hear many different styles of Bluegrass music, that's why we call it... "The Bluegrass Mix" cause we mix it all in!

In closing this blog post, I want to say how much I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of The Bluegrass Mix and how much I appreciate all who take time to listen to the station!


Thanks,

Michael L. Browns
Deep Cut Bluegrass

Let's Swing Tonight!

Hey Mixers,


Tonight is "Swing Time" on my show, "Deep Cut Bluegrass" here on The Bluegrass Mix.

Here are just a few of the artists I will be playing tonight

• Rhonda Vincent
• Kenny and Amanda Smith
• Claire Lynch
• Sam Bush
• Patrick McAvinue
• The Whites
• Josh Williams
• Special Consensus
• IIIrd Tyme Out
• Williams & Clark Expedition

I hope you can join me tonight from 10 to Midnight (Eastern)!


Michael L. Browns
Deep Cut Bluegrass
The Bluegrass Mix

My Wednesday show

Hi folks,

I regret to inform you but this week's Wednesday show will be minus me as your host! Hopefully one of our other fine DJs at the Mix will fill in! But I should be back next Wednesday, as well as, of course, my Monday night show from 6 to 8.

See ya'll then!
~Teri Ann McLean
Host of "Something Borrowed; Something Bluegrass"
Monday 6 to 8 PM EST/Wednesday 4 to 6 PM EST

Monday Night In America - On The Bluegrass Mix

Hey there Mixers,

Once again we find ourselves here on a Monday... I hope your 4th of July Holiday Weekend was a great and safe one!

If tonight on The Bluegrass Mix goes as planned, we have another evening of fine Bluegrass Music, broadcast live, for you from Teri Ann, Mike and me... Michael.

Teri Ann begins her live show @ 6pm (Eastern) then Mike will follow @ 8pm (Eastern) and then I should be going live @ 10pm (Eastern).

This week, I almost decided to go with another "Bluegrass Swing" theme show but I'm still working on finding a few more songs... so maybe next Monday. Just stop by here on our blog for updates. If any of you have any "swing" styled Bluegrass songs to suggest for the show, please stop by the station web site and email me.


Michael L. Browns
Deep Cut Bluegrass
The Bluegrass Mix

Julie Raye in July 2008 issue of Bluegrass Now Online

Hello, Grassers!!!

Bluegrass Now contacted me several months ago and asked if I'd like to be featured in their magazine under a column called - Air Check. It features Bluegrass DJ's!!! They asked me some questions and wanted a picture and BAM...it's featured this month!!!

Our DJ, Sky, brought it my attention!!! I had no idea when it would be featured...I had almost forgot about it! LOL! Thanks, Sky...you don't miss a thing, do ya'?

Thanks to Bluegrass Now Online as well!!!

Keep grassin'!