Missy Raines

  • Missy Raines – Inside Out

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    Missy Raines has been a fixture on the bluegrass and acoustic music scene for most of her life. I first met her (and husband, Ben Surratt) in the early 1980s when she was performing as a member of Cloud Valley,

  • Missy Raines and Compass Records

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    Missy Raines, seven-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year, has signed a multi-project deal with Compass Records, run by fellow IBMA Award winner Alison Brown and her husband, Garry West. A new CD will be released on February 10, 2009, the

  • Changes in hipville

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    News from Missy Raines & The New Hip... Original guitarist Megan McCormick has departed to pursue a career in indie rock, and 17 year old Dillon Hodges - 2007 Winfield Flatpicking Champion - is stepping in. Missy shares the mixed feelings that

  • Missy Raines & The New Hip: EP

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    Missy Raines is one of those musicians who seems to defy all the laws of both nature and logic. How can someone be that small, and that good on such a large instrument? Why would a bass player front a

  • Catch New Hip on Blue Plate Special

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    When you finish listening to Cherryholmes live on WFDU.org, you can point your browser over to WDVX.com and hear Missy Raines & The New Hip perform on Blue Plate Special. They will be performing live before a studio audience between

  • Shindig in Bristol

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    Our Grasstowne buddies, Alan Bibey and Phil Leadbetter, both contacted us earlier this week mentioning the big doin's in Bristol, TN on Saturday (1/26). It's the 3rd annual Pickin' at the Paramount all star show where top bluegrass artists get together

  • Claire Lynch on WNCW

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    Claire Lynch will be appearing on WNCW's Goin' Across The Mountain program on Saturday (1/12) at 2:00 p.m. (EST). She and her fine band will perform live in the station's Studio B, where they will also chat with host Dennis Jones.

  • Missy Raines & The New Hip

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    We posted last week with the news that Missy Raines would be leaving her position with Claire Lynch to pursue her own group full time. We asked Missy to share a few words about her new endeavor, and her feelings upon

  • Missy Raines strikes out on her own

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    Missy Raines has announced that she will leave her position as bass player with The Claire Lynch Band, her musical home for the past 12 years, to focus full-time on her own group, Missy Raines & The New Hip. The band