On May 4th, Rounder will release the DVD Rounder Records 40th Anniversary Concert, a celebration of the label’s 40 years in the music industry. Filmed in October, 2009 at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, the concert will also be presented as a PBS® television special that will begin airing on the network in March, 2010. The companion CD will be released on March 2nd. Read more…
Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac will celebrate the release of “Takeoff” their much anticipated debut CD release on Saturday March 27, 2010 at the historic Old Schoolhouse in Lucketts, Virginia.
“We wanted to really do it in a place that was legendary for Bluegrass in the Washington DC area and Lucketts certainly qualified. They have had bluegrass here every Saturday night since 1974.” Darren Beachley shared,” It’s like putting on an old pair of jeans, familiar and comfortable”. “ We will have a few surprises up our sleeves for the show and I am sure a special guest or two, with us you never know who is gonna show up”.
“ Seating will be limited, I suggest you get there early as it will fill up fast”. “For folks who don’t make the show we will allow pre-orders via our website on March 14th. Those orders will ship the same day we get the CD’s in the office”.
Josh Williams – Down Home
Big River Bluegrass
Larry Stephenson – 20th Anniversary
Patuxent Partners – Seven or Eleven
Randy Kohrs – Quicksand
Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie – Southern
Mike Jackson – When We Goin’ Back
Tribecastan – 5 Star Cave
Lee Watson – Northern Track
Darin & Brooke Aldridge
Mary Ann taylor-Hall – Come And Go, Molly Snow (Novel)
Thomas Wyrot – Every Time I Walk The Road
The Watkins Family – Heaven’s Worth Waiting For
Zoograss – Hot Day At The Zoo
Jessie Baker – Yessir!
Blue Highway – Some Day: The Fifteenth Anniversary Collection
Chris Warner – Goin’ To The Dance
Dailey & Vincent – Sing The Statler Brothers
The Grascals new album: The Famous Lefty Flynn’s
COMING MARCH 30
Michael Martin Murphey and his Buckaroo Blue Grass friends ride again on the February 9, 2010 album release of BUCKAROO BLUE GRASS II. The album expands on his passions of his Grammy nominated album, “BUCKAROO BLUE GRASS,” creating fully acoustic bluegrass versions of songs about the region to which Murphey has been deeply connected for a lifetime – the American Southwest.
The high lonesome sound in bluegrass music has always appealed to the cowboy soul. Somehow the acoustic instruments used in bluegrass have a drive, energy and expansive quality – an almost mystical “wide open country” sort of feeling that seems built into the design. You can hear and feel it on Rob Ickes’ country sound in the new version of “Wildfire.” It seems the American West has produced “running-wide-open” acoustic musicians like Pat Flynn, Sam Bush, Rob Ickes and Ryan Murphey who have been key in developing the Buckaroo Blue Grass sound as they blaze a trail connecting Cowboy and Western music to Bluegrass by exploring Wild West sonic spaces.
Murphey has utilized his label’s strong roster of top bluegrass artists to help further define his Buckaroo Blue Grass sound. Included on the new album is a powerful duet performance with bluegrass veteran Audie Blaylock covering the classic Marty Robbins hit “Running Gun.” Also, included is a stunning duet version of his mega hit, “Wildfire” with # 1 hit artist, Carrie Hassler.
Michael Martin Murphey’s songs have been recorded by bluegrass artists such as Flatt and Scruggs, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Seldom Scene, Country Gentlemen, Bluegrass Cardinals, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many others. BUCKAROO BLUE GRASS II reprises many of his songs covered by bluegrass bands, performed with a stellar cast of bluegrass players and singers that includes; Carrie Hassler, Audie Blaylock, Sam Bush, Rob Ickes, Andy Hall, Ronnie McCoury, Pat Flynn, Charlie Cushman, Andy Leftwich and more.
For more information on Michael Martin Murphey and his Grammy nominated album, BUCKAROO BLUE GRASS, and next week’s BUCKAROO BLUE GRASS II, please visit his site or Rural Rhythm Records
Pete Wernick (“Dr. Banjo”) announces the release of a two-hour instructional DVD, Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos, Vol. 2, (Homespun). Volume 2 is a follow-up Read more…
Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce the upcoming April 13, 2010 album release of “CAROLINA HURRICANE” by bluegrass band, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road. Read more…
When a beloved musical group decides it’s time to retire, that doesn’t mean their music becomes a thing of the past. Just ask Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent, Read more…
On March 2, Rounder will release Rounder Records’ 40th Anniversary Concert, an album of the concert that celebrated the label’s 40 years in the music industry. Recorded in October 2009 at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, the concert will also be presented as a PBS television special that will begin airing on the network in March, 2010 and released on DVD in May. Read more…
Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce the January 12, 2010 new album release, “SOUTHERN” by Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie. The band kicks off Read more…
