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
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
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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Love Songs coming from Lonesome River Band
Friday, February 19, is the release date for Love Songs, a new single from bluegrass powerhouse Lonesome River Band on the Mountain Home Music label. LRB has been at the forefront of contemporary bluegrass since the early 1990s, when their epic
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Track Premiere: That’s Life from Lonesome River Band
Here's another new single this week from Mountain Home Music, this time for perennial bluegrass headliners, Lonesome River Band. LRB has been touring and recording now for almost 40 years, and despite occasional personnel changes along the way, band leader Sammy
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Tristan Scroggins adds Carrying The Tradition tabs to Patreon
Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has released another book of transcriptions, this time featuring the playing of Dan Tyminski with Lonesome River Band. Tristan has transcribed all of Dan's solos from LRB's breakout album, Carrying The Tradition, which set the bluegrass
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Congratulations Jesse and Sarah!
Jesse Smathers, mandolinist and vocalist with Lonesome River Band, and Sarah Farley were married on April 4 in a small private ceremony in Virginia. Jesse tells us that their initial wedding plans were quashed by the state imposed requirements for social
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Outside Looking In – Lonesome River Band
Lonesome River Band are one of those rare contemporary bluegrass outfits that have the means of combining old school precepts with a decidedly modern melodic sensibility, without sacrificing the integrity of either. It’s a difficult juggling act to be sure;
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Track Premiere: Your Memory Wins Again from Lonesome River Band
To celebrate next week's release of their new album on Mountain Home Music, Lonesome River Band has agreed to share one of the tracks from the record with our readers. It's their remake of a song that banjo man and band
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Track Premiere – Little Magnolia from Lonesome River Band
It's a new month, very nearly spring in much of the US, and we all have so many things to look forward to in the coming season. Warm weather, baseball, and outdoor bluegrass festivals! Here's another - a new single from