A Series Within the Series

As you know, our Studio Special series is the program where we feature a different artist each week performing live in our studio.

This week, in anticipation of the IBMA Awards coming up on October 2 (which we're broadcasting live on Bluegrass Junction), instead of presenting the same show all week as we usually do, we'll be featuring a different band in each Studio Special show which has 1) Appeared on the program during 2008 and 2) Been nominated for an award this year.

Our first show features Blue Highway, who are nominated for Vocal Group of the Year, Instrumental Group of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. It airs tomorrow morning at 8 AM ET.

The full week's schedule goes like this:

Friday, 8 AM ET: Blue Highway
Saturday, 11 AM ET: The Steeldrivers
Sunday, 6 PM ET: Paul Williams & The Victory Trio
Monday, 8 PM ET: The Grascals
Tuesday, Midnight ET: The Infamous Stringdusters
Thursday, 3 PM ET: Dailey & Vincent

These are all terrific shows, so be sure and tune in and celebrate IBMA week right along with us!

Through the Window of Our Studio

Blue Highway returns to our Studio Special series Friday morning at 8:00 ET as we continue our "Best of" series during the month of August.

All this month, we're re-running some of the memorable shows we've broadcast so far during this year, and the one featuring Blue Highway was a real highlight for me. This was the 49th show in the series, and it was originally broadcast back in March.

Needless to say, this is incredible music from one of the top established bands in bluegrass. On the show they perform several songs from their current album, Through the Window of a Train which, in addition from being one of finest discs they've ever done, received quite a notice Thursday in the International Bluegrass Music Awards Nominations. It received an IBMA nomination for Album of the Year, and the title song is up for Song of the Year. The band is nominated for Vocal Group and Instrumental Group of the Year, and Tim Stafford and Rob Ickes are nominated in the Instrumental categories (Guitar and Dobro Player of the Year, respectively).

You'll enjoy this show. If you can't catch it Friday morning, check out our list of rebroadcast times.

August Studio Specials

As I mentioned in my earlier post about Dailey & Vincent, the August shows in the Studio Special series will consist of some of the best programs we've aired this year. Here's the schedule for the next few weeks:

Friday, August 1: Dailey & Vincent
Friday, August 8: Balsam Range
Friday, August 15: Blue Highway
Friday, August 22: Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road
Friday, August 29: Bradley Walker

Each show debuts at 8:00 AM Eastern on Fridays, with rebroadcasts at the following times:

Saturday 11 AM ET
Sunday 6 PM ET
Monday 8 PM ET
Tuesday Midnight ET (12:00 AM ET Wednesday)
Thursday 3 PM ET