It's nice just to be nominated

I got quite a surprise a couple of weeks ago when a friend and fellow music writer e-mailed me to say I had been chosen as one of three nominees for the International Bluegrass Music Association's Print Media Person of the Year.

Go here and scroll almost all they way down for proof.

For a writer to get any feedback at all, let alone something to this degree, is pretty rare and eminently satisfactory.

One of the publications mentioned with my nomination is the Lonesome Road Review, a music review blog I started not long ago.

It's still got a long way to go before it's where I want it, but take a look anyway. Feedback and offers to help (especially on the design and site maintenance side) are welcome here.

And while we're celebrating, check out King Wilkie with a track from their great new album Low Country Suite.