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John Driskell Hopkins

  • Hopkins and Balsam Range with Atlanta Pops

    November 30, 2015 | by John Lawless

    John Driskell Hopkins, bassist with alt-country heroes the Zac Brown Band, has released a holiday album for the 2015 Christmas season. In The Spirit find Hopkins singing a dozen sacred and secular favorites, all backed by the Atlanta Pops Orchestra,

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  • Sammy Shelor with Zac Brown Band

    June 25, 2014 | by John Lawless

    This past Sunday (June 22), Sammy Shelor performed with the Zac Brown Band in Bristow, VA. Brown and his eclectic country band have been known to favor bluegrass music and acoustic artists, and his former bass player and current guitarist,

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  • More Photos from Wednesday’s Bluegrass Ramble

    September 27, 2013 | by Daniel Mullins

    The Bluegrass Ramble has been a popular new addition to this year's IBMA World of Bluegrass. Here are some pictures from around Raleigh during Wednesday's Bluegrass Ramble.  

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  • Hopkins and Surrett at WOB 2013

    September 26, 2013 | by John Lawless

    John Driskill Hopkins, bass player/vocalist with the Zac Brown Band, and Tim Surett, who fills that same role with Balsam Range, stopped by for a chat on Wednesday at World of Bluegrass 2013.  

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  • Balsam Range to the silver screen

    May 6, 2013 | by John Lawless

    "They're gonna put me in the movies..." So sang Buck Owens (and Ringo Starr) in the mid 1960s in Act Naturally, a hit song that told the story of a country boy set for stardom in the movie biz. In 2014,

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  • Hopkins and Balsam Range on the Opry

    March 11, 2013 | by John Lawless

    This past Friday on The Grand Ole Opry, Balsam Range performed with John Driskell Hopkins to promote Daylight, the album they recorded together last year. Hopkins has made his living in music for some time, as both a side man and songwriter,

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  • Daylight – John Driskell Hopkins & Balsam Range

    January 22, 2013 | by John Curtis Goad

    Numerous country musicians have made the short leap to bluegrass in recent years, perhaps most notably Marty Raybon and Joe Diffie. These artists had already established careers as vocalists, and simply adjusted their sound for a new audience. Now, another country

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  • Daylight coming soon from John Driskell Hopkins and Balsam Range

    December 14, 2012 | by John Lawless

    John Driskell Hopkins, bass player with the Zac Brown Band, has teamed up with Balsam Range to record an album of his original music, Daylight, which will be independently released on January 22, 2013. The bulk of the music is performed with

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