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04/19/2025

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Young Swiss-American Bluegrass prodigy Ettore Buzzini has a Generation Alpha take on Bluegrass, rooted in tradition, but with an innovative, colorful playing...

02/15/2025

Here's another new release for Valentine's Day, this time from Swiss-American banjo heartthrob, Ettore Buzzini, on Patuxent Music.

02/05/2025

PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR VALENTINE’S DAY
Patuxent Music announces the new single:

“DON’T LOVE ME” by ETTORE BUZZINI

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Young Swiss-American Bluegrass prodigy Ettore Buzzini has a Generation Alpha take on Bluegrass, rooted in tradition, but with an innovative, colorful playing style that is irresistibly distinct.

Buzzini has composed a bluegrass melody and his own translation of “Liebst du um Schönheit” by Friedrich Rückert (1788 – 1866), First set to music by Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911). The song, which extols the virtue of pure love over physical beauty, youth, and riches, is a perfect fit for bluegrass.

Ettore combines his Swiss background with his love of the banjo music of Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, and J. D. Crowe to create a unique sound, traditional, yet innovative.

“My goal is to make bluegrass and banjo music popular with my generation, and inspire young people like me to learn” – Ettore Buzzini

“..,Buzzini has all the goods. He’s a strong vocalist, instrumentalist, and songwriter. … it’ll be exciting to see where Buzzini’s journey will take him! – Bluegrass Today, April 2023

“[Ettore] is a fiery, young, sixteen-year-old banjo player from North Carolina who grew up influenced by such bluegrass artists as Flatt & Scruggs and Reno & Smiley as well as Country, Latin, Jazz and more contemporary music.” – Bluegrass Unlimited, August 2023

Joining Ettore on “Don’t Love Me” are guitarist Devin Jones, fiddler, Ella Thomas, Christopher Henry on mandolin and two-time IBMA bass player of the year, Mark Schatz.

02/04/2025

Jim Lloyd and band on WPAQ WPAQ 740 AM 106.7 FM The Voice of the Blue Ridge, with Kenneth J Berrier.
Will Eller, Eric Pratt, Ernie Simmons, Tom Mindte
Check out Jim's new album at www.pxrec.com
Jim Lloyd Music, Patuxent Music

01/23/2025

12/29/2024

Italian radio program features a song from the new Eleanor Ellis album, "I do Just What I Do"

Nella puntata n° 529 di “BLUES FIRES”, ideata e condotta da BRUNO POLLACCI, in onda LUNEDI 30 Dicembre alle 23,05 su PUNTO RADIO, anche in immediato podcast su http://animajazz.eu ed in streaming su www.puntoradio.fm , saranno protagonisti, nell'ordine, i seguenti artisti: 1- CHRISTINA CROFTS ....

12/27/2024

*** NEW ALBUM ***
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Jim Lloyd - The Ghost of Virginia

I first met Jim Lloyd at Galax fiddlers’ convention a few years ago. and was caught off guard by seeing a clawhammer player playing Will Keys licks on a REALLY nice Pre WWII gold plated Gibson Mastertone resonator banjo. The stereotype, for whatever reason, has been that clawhammer players use open backed banjos with no resonator and bluegrass banjo players use closed back banjos with a resonator. Why and where that started, I’m not sure, but Jim gets a great deal of tone, volume, dynamics, and clarity out of his resonator style banjos that he uses, and that’s why upon our first meeting I introduced myself. Almost immediately, Jim and I started jamming with each other right on the spot. He and I are a lot alike in that we like playing melodies and working out arrangements to songs that aren’t usually considered “banjo tunes,” on the banjo.

Jim Lloyd will be the first to tell you that he doesn’t want to be grouped and confined into one category or genre, and this record has something for everyone on it. Starting with old mountain ballads, and songs about ghost trains and coal mining. There are couple of traditional instrumental standards mixed in with Will Keys influences such as Silver Bell and East Tennessee Blues, the latter I was honored to get to record with Jim. This helps demonstrate the differences between the two common banjo styles. Jim differentiates these two styles by naming them, “The right way and the wrong way… ; )” Since it’s his album, I’ll give him a free pass on that one!

Then you have some good old fashioned honest to goodness country thumb style guitar on the Merle Travis classic, “Midnight Special.” I really enjoy this tune, because I grew up hearing folks in my hometown play this style of guitar. Jim puts his own flair to this one, not trying to be a note for note copy of Travis’s version and putting his own style and musical influence into the solos.

Lastly come the tunes that you might not expect to hear on an album like this… Starting with American rock band ‘The Turtles’ 1967 hit, “Happy Together,” The Monkees 1966 hit, “I’m a Believer,” and lastly the Sonny Curtis penned, “I’ve Fought the Law.” Jim has managed to arrange these tunes that are more well known to the non-folk music audiences, and they work out quite nicely for clawhammer banjo.

Lincoln Hensley