August 2024

Beloved musician James Casey will posthumously release his solo album, The Kauai Project, on Wednesday, August 28. Its release comes one year after he passed away from colon cancer at age 40. The Kauai Project limited-edition vinyl pre-order is available now via Relix Marketplace, with vinyl shipments starting in September.

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There is an entire side of the bluegrass universe that owes its existence to John Hartford. Hartford’s name is a focal point of the bluegrass and newgrass canon and his musicianship, on both the banjo and fiddle, has now been the object of fascination for generations.

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Elvin Bishop, Alligator Records recording artist and Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer, was invited by Nobel Prize-winning music legend Bob Dylan to join him on stage and add his blistering slide guitar to Dylan's bluesy composition Early Roman Kings. The performance took place at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Although the two musicians have known each other since the 1960s, this is the first time Bishop has performed on stage with Dylan.

In the dim-lit corridors of music history, where shadows waltz with echoes of timeless melodies, there emerges a figure whose artistry has carved deep grooves in the very fabric of sound. Today, August 12th, 2024, we at Grateful Web gather to honor the 75th revolution around the sun of Mark Knopfler, a musician whose hands have coaxed the strings of countless souls, and whose voice has whispered tales both grand and humble.