Missy Raines

This Christmas memory comes from Missy Raines, bassist with Claire Lynch, and leader of her own group, Missy Raines & The New Hip. It's late, and Ben and I are making our way to my childhood home for a Christmas

Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, shares this review. Claire Lynch has recorded five CDs for the Rounder label previously. The latest, Crowd Favorites (Rounder 0600), consists of several songs in a 'best of' collection that in typical fashion these

Missy Raines wrote in this morning to offer some additional thanks she was unable to give during the award show last night due to time constraints. I've copied her comments below. Dear folks, I am so honored to have received the

Award-winning bassist Missy Raines is on tour this week in California with her band, The New Hip. This brief run to the west coast began yesterday (6/3) in Berkeley, and continues through the week with stops in Felton, San Deigo,

Blue Plate Special has a special 90 minute edition of the program on tap for Friday (3/30) on WDVX. It's a triple bill featuring live (in studio) performances from The Jerry Douglas Band, Kenny & Amanda Smith and Missy Raines and

We told you a while back that Missy Raines was putting together a new band to play a few dates when she's not on the road with Claire Lynch. The band's first performance is coming up the end of this month

In the midst of all the announcements of new bands and changing personnel that have been made this year, there is one that we have yet to mention. After 8 years, Jim Hurst and Missy Raines have decided to call

The November/December issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles is in the mail, with Rhonda Vincent on the cover. Publishers Kevin and Lori Kerfoot tell us that this is their first Women In Bluegrass edition - an "all girls issue" - something

Listen now: (IE users click to activate) Our guest on this episode of The GrassCast is Claire Lynch. In the interview John and Claire discuss her history in bluegrass music, talk about her band members, and

I assume, since our dedicated bloggers John and Brance worked so hard during the awards show that they didn't stick it out through the after party at the Gibson Bluegrass Showcase. And also I didn't see them there, so I'll