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Video: Master guitarist Tommy Emmanuel plays an awesome Beatles medley

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Tommy Emmanuel

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Tommy Emmanuel is probably the best guitar player that most folks have never heard of.

He started playing guitar in his native Australia as a youngster after hearing the late, great Chet Atkins work his instrumental magic over the radio, and he has never looked back since.

What sets Tommy apart from the world’s other great musicians are his obviously deep love of performing and his almost unique ability to make a single acoustic guitar sound like an entire band.  [Read more…]

Ricky Skaggs singing and playing his mandolin – at 7 years old!

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Ricky Skaggs at 7 years old

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Ricky Skaggs is best known a successful Country music performer, but like many Country greats he actually got his start in the Bluegrass genre.

And like most of those Bluegrass-turned-Country stars, he first began making great music at a very young age.

I was checking out some videos on YouTube last night and stumbled across this gem featuring a 7 year old Ricky showing off his musical chops with none other than Bluegrass legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

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Jana Jae fiddlin’ around with the “Orange Blossom Special”

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Multi-talented fiddler/violinist Jana Jae has been delighting audiences the world over for decades.

Fans of the Country Music/Comedy variety show Hee Haw know Jana as the “The girl with the magic blue fiddle” as well as the very first female member of Buck Owen’s legendary band The Buckaroos.

Jana is still making beautiful music today on stages and in front of audiences both large and small, and she still steals the show every time.  [Read more…]

Video: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” by Loretta Lynn

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Photo credit: Country Music Hall of Fame

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Country Music boasts a long line of legendary performers who helped shape and define the genre.

It all started way back in the 1920s with The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and a handful of other artists that helped create what would eventually become one of the most successful industries the world has ever known.  [Read more…]