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Alison Krauss and Union Station have reformed for their first album of new music in 14 years.

‘Smoke Dreams’, the first Captain Matchbox album, was released on July 9, 1973 and reached no 23 on the Australian album chart. It featured the hit song ‘My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes’. According to Gavin Ryan’s ‘Australian Singles Charts 1940 to 2020, the song reached no 10 in Melbourne, no 14 in Adelaide, no 25 in Brisbane, no 34 in Sydney and no 51 in Hobart.

Led Zeppelin covered ‘When The Levee Breaks’ on the fourth untitled Zep album commonly Led Zeppelin IV and Zozo. It was an old blues song written by Memphis Minnie and released in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.

Australia’s Tommy Emmanuel has won a Grammy Award for his part of the recording of the Johnny Cash classic ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ with Johnny’s son John Carter Cash.

17 albums from the Leon Russell catalogue are now streaming through the George Harrison record label Dark Horse Records.

Actor Leslie Jordan has recruited Dolly Parton for his first album ‘Company’s Coming’.

Ben Harper’s next album will be the solo work ‘Winter Is For Lovers’, featuring 15 songs performed on Ben’s Monteleone lap steel guitar.

Hall & Oates fans should treat themselves to John Oates solo live album in September.

Rhiannon Giddens and Ben Harper are together for a cover of Nick Drake’s ‘Black Eyed Dog’.

More artists including Randy Travis and Mickey Gilley have paid tribute to Charlie Daniels who died from a stroke at age 83 on 6 July 2020.

Charlie Daniels famous friends have published tributes to the country star who died at age 83.

Charlie Daniels, the self-appointed Redneck Fiddlin’ Man, has died at the age of 83.

Scott and Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers have announced their third instalment of the Gleam series ‘The Third Gleam’ at a time of isolation and frustration, at a time of COVID-19 and #BlackLivesMatter.

Christopher “Critter” Fuqua has parted ways with his buddies in bluegrass revival band Old Crow Medicine Show.

The Punch Brothers, mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Gabe Witcher, will tour Australia in July.

Mark Gable has recorded a bluegrass version of his Choirboys rock classic ‘Run To Paradise’.

Steve Mandell, the guitar player who joined Eric Weissberg on the hit instrumental “Dueling Banjos” from the film Deliverence died on Wednesday, March 14 at the age of 76. He had been suffering from prostate cancer.

One of the albums with the most pre-order interest so far this year over at Amazon is Windy City by Alison Krauss. It has rarely fallen out of the top twenty since the album was announced a month ago.