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Lonesome River Band

  • Video Premiere: Heyday from Lonesome River Band

    August 12, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Mountain Home Music has a new music video today for Lonesome River Band, the title track of their recently released project, Heyday. LRB has quite a history in bluegrass, starting in the early 1980s, and with 25 albums available online. Current

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  • Heyday – Lonesome River Band

    July 22, 2022 | by John Curtis Goad

    The Lonesome River Band is truly a unique group in the world of bluegrass music. Having operated under the same name for over three decades, and with a trail of hits leading back to the early 1990s, they are arguably

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  • Under The Weather from Jesse Smathers

    May 19, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Jesse Smathers is definitely a bluegrass man. And he comes by it naturally, with both his grandfather and his great uncle, Harold and Luke Smathers, being major contributors to traditional music in Jesse's native North Carolina. In fact, the two were

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  • Mary Ann Is A Pistol from Lonesome River Band

    February 11, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Mountain Home Music has a new single for Lonesome River Band, which may a first listen to the newly-revised lineup of the band. With banjo man Sammy Shelor still firmly in control, and right hand man Mike Hargrove beside him on

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  • Nothing In The World To Do from Jesse Smathers

    November 15, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Jesse Smathers, guitarist and tenor vocalist with Lonesome River Band, has announced a new self-titled solo project, with a new single out today for everyone to get a taste. Folks in the Virginia/Carolina region have known of this young artist's talent

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  • Singing Up There: A Tribute to the Easter Brothers – Lonesome River Band

    August 2, 2021 | by Lee Zimmerman

    It goes without saying that bluegrass is part of a timeless tradition that’s been carried forward from one generation to the next. Even those artists and ensembles that publicly profess the need to add their own individual elements to the

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  • Kameron Keller to Lonesome River Band

    July 6, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Following the past year of restricted performance opportunities for touring artists, a lot of your favorite bands may look a bit different this summer season. Not many folks can survive a year with no income, and we have seen a

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  • Track Premiere: Cumberland River Shore from Lonesome River Band

    June 3, 2021 | by John Lawless

    With a new single from Lonesome River Band due tomorrow (June 4), Mountain Home Music has agreed to give our readers a sneak peek one day early. It's a new song called Cumberland River Shore, written as a tribute to the

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  • Big changes for Lonesome River Band

    May 27, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Sammy Shelor has announced a big change coming next month for Lonesome River Band. Long time guitarist Brandon Rickman is leaving the group after almost two decades of touring and recording with the group. Current mandolinist, Jesse Smathers, will move

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  • Track Premiere: Little At A Time from Lonesome River Band

    March 17, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Mountain Home Music has a second new single from Lonesome River Band this week, this time a kickin' bluegrass number, Little At A Time, featuring mandolinist Jesse Smathers on the lead vocal. Few bands on the circuit today can  brag of

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