Tag: Gospel Bluegrass

New single from JD Messer and Sanctified

| May 7, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Kindred Records has released a pair of tracks to radio from JD Messer and Sanctified, a bluegrass Gospel group from Kentucky and West Virginia. The two are Messer originals, Lunch Box Letter and Peter Stepped Out, available to programmers now from Airplay Direct. Sactified consists of [...]

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Cold Cold Feeling – Truman’s Ridge

| April 17, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Traditional bluegrass seems to be making a comeback these days, spurred on with the help of regional bands who are firmly based in the rules set down by Bill Monroe. Truman’s Ridge, a four piece group from the Chicago area, is one of those bands. [...]

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Carl Jackson Gospel guitar CD

| January 24, 2013 | 1 Comment
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If you’ve been following bluegrass as long as your humble correspondent, you’ll have watched Carl Jackson go from a skinny kid playing banjo with Jim & Jesse as a teenager in the late 1960s, to one of the most respected songwriters and producers in Nashville. [...]

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They Called Him Jesus – Jeff Clair

| January 14, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Many of today’s younger generation of bluegrass musicians grew up with the artists of the ’80s and ’90s as their major influences. Contemporary groups such as the Lonesome River Band, IIIrd Tyme Out, and Alison Krauss and Union Station were their main sources of inspiration, [...]

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Congratulations to Doyle and The Roys

| October 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Last night in Nashville, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver picked up the 2012 Vocal Group or Band of the Year trophy at the Inspirational Country Music Awards ceremony. These awards honor artists who excel each year in the fields of Christian and inspirational country music, sometimes described [...]

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Ohio Live from the Farm Hands Quartet

| September 20, 2012 | 0 Comments
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The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet have released their first concert DVD, recorded live at the historic Memorial Church in Dayton, OH earlier this year. Among these Farm Hands are Daryl Mosely on bass, Tim Graves on resonator guitar, Bennie Boling on banjo, and Kevin Williamson on guitar. [...]

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Marksmen Quartet – This is My Crowd

| July 23, 2012 | 0 Comments
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A new album, This Is My Crowd, from the Marksmen Quartet is due July 31 on Rural Rhythm Christian. The group is under the direction of Dr. Earle Wheeler, who developed a love for bluegrass Gospel music from his father, a Baptist minister in Georgia. Earle [...]

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Kevin Carter is Not Looking Back

| July 10, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Kindred Records has announced the release of Not Looking Back, a new Gospel project from Kevin Carter & Full Assurance. This is the first recording from this Statesville, NC quartet, led by Kevin Carter on guitar and vocals. Full Assurance includes Kevin’s wife, Cindy Carter [...]

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Gospel project from Rhonda Vincent this summer

| May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
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For someone who has been so deeply involved in bluegrass Gospel for so many years, it seems hard to believe that Rhonda Vincent’s upcoming live album, Sunday Mornin’ Singin’, will be her first all-Gospel release. Rhonda performed in her youth with the Vincent family band, [...]

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Farm Hand Quartet hunting a banjo player

| March 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Farm Hand Quartet, a bluegrass Gospel group featuring veteran grassers Tim Graves, Daryl Mosley and Kevin Williamson, are on the hunt for a new banjo player. The band is based in Nashville, and tours extensively throughout the central US. According to Graves… “In all [...]

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