Cherryholmes court country

Cherryholmes III - Dont BelieveFamily bluegrass band Cherryholmes is making its first attempts to cross over to country radio.

According to a Reuters/Billboard report, Cherryholmes is remixing – with added piano and drums – This Is My Son, one of the cuts from their forthcoming album, Cherryholmes III – Don’t Believe, and releasing it as a single to be promoted to country radio.

The band has a few other ambitious plans that make this fall a very busy time for them.

You can read the full story at reuters.com.

There are audio samples from the new CD at the Skaggs Family Records’ website.

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Richard Thompson

Richard F. Thompson is a long-standing free-lance writer specialising in bluegrass music topics. A two-time Editor of British Bluegrass News, he has been seriously interested in bluegrass music since about 1970. As well as contributing to that magazine, he has, in the past 30 plus years, had articles published by Country Music World, International Country Music News, Country Music People, Bluegrass Unlimited, MoonShiner (the Japanese bluegrass music journal) and Bluegrass Europe. He wrote the annotated series I'm On My Way Back To Old Kentucky, a daily memorial to Bill Monroe that culminated with an acknowledgement of what would have been his 100th birthday, on September 13, 2011.