Tag: Doyle Lawson

Bluegrass Album Band in Sevierville

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Mike Kelly was kind enough to send a few of the photos he shot on Saturday when the Bluegrass Album Band and some loyal fans braved the rain for a reunion show at the Bloomin’ Barbeque & Bluegrass Festival. The weather was wet and drizzly [...]

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Compass releases quartet of MCR compliations

| April 26, 2013 | 2 Comments
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Compass Records has just released four digital albums of music recorded during the 2012 season of Music City Roots, a Nashville-based radio and television program airing each Wednesday evening from The Loveless Barn. Each of the four is titled based on loose stylistic groupings of the music [...]

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Doyle at the Galax Ruritan Club

| April 11, 2013 | 0 Comments
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We posted on Monday that Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver had brought Dustin Pyrtle on board to sing and play guitar. Yesterday Judith Burnette, who hosts the Blue Ridge Backroads show on WBRF radio, sent along these photos of Dustin’s first night with the band on [...]

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Dustin Pyrtle to Quicksilver

| April 8, 2013 | 3 Comments
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are among the unstoppable objects in the music world, recording and touring now in their 34th year. Together since Doyle Lawson stepped away from The Country Gentlemen in 1979, the band has seen dozens of personnel changes over the years, including [...]

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Doyle Lawson at ETSU

| April 2, 2013 | 0 Comments
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There are not many music genres in which fans are able to consistently interact with their heroes face-to-face, and even less where stars and legends will willingly sit down and talk or play music with fans. Thankfully, bluegrass is one of those genres. It’s not [...]

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Doyle to Take Roads Well Traveled with new release

| March 27, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Despite his proper status as a bluegrass icon, IBMA Hall of Famer Doyle Lawson is an everyday kind of guy. Taught to work hard for what you earn in life, he has been able to reach the top of the musical echelon in part because [...]

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Roads Well Traveled from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

| March 19, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s latest album, Roads Well Traveled, was released today. This most recent inductee into the Bluegrass Hall of Honor shows no signs of slowing down. His latest release is filled with the same originality we have come to expect from Doyle over his fifty [...]

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Jamie Dailey – best-selling author?

| February 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
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One of the greatest challenges touring artists face is managing down time. The few hours of excitement visible to audiences at each show is tempered by many more hours riding, driving or flying to get there, and not everyone can find ways to effectively alternate [...]

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A First-Class Reunion

| February 19, 2013 | 2 Comments
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This reflection on the Bluegrass Album band reunion in Asheville is a contribution from Alan Tompkins, prominent Texas bluegrass musician, impresario, and radio host. Mid-February weather in Dallas is usually great, some of the best each year, and not something I would normally leave (voluntarily) [...]

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Bluegrass Album Band returns in fine style

| February 18, 2013 | 3 Comments
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This is the first of two articles about the historic reunion of The Bluegrass Album Band this past weekend in North Carolina. There’s no better way to start the Bluegrass Album Band reunion than with the crack of Crowe’s banjo kicking off the album one [...]

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