Happy 39th to Big Country Bluegrass!
Many thanks to Mark Freeman of Rebel Records for sharing the fact that today is the 39th anniversary of the popular Virginia band, Big Country Bluegrass. Normally, we wait for nice, round-number commemoration years, but as today is the actual day of their launch, we figured, what the heck? Thanks as well to Dale Morris, […]
Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass – from Big Country Bluegrass
Rebel Records’ new single for Big Country Bluegrass is the title track from their current project, Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass, and features the stratospheric vocals of guitarist Eddie Gill singing lead. This is the band’s 21st album since being founded in 1987 by mandolinist Tommy and guitarist Teresa Sells, and their sixth with […]
Heading for the Mountains from Big Country Bluegrass
Heads up lovers of truly traditional mountain bluegrass! One of the top bands in the style, Big Country Bluegrass, with among the very finest male vocalists, Eddie Gill, have brought back a song that Shelby Jewell wrote and recorded with The Bluegrass Kinsmen, one of the premiere regional bands of the 1970s and ’80s. It’s […]
Remember Who You Are from Big Country Bluegrass
Rebel Records has a new single for traditional bluegrass stalwarts Big Country Bluegrass this week, and we are pleased to offer an early listen to our readers this afternoon. Since putting the band together almost 40 years ago, founders Tommy and Teresa Sells have kept a solid band that maintains the mountain sound that has […]
Daniel Martin to Big Country Bluegrass
Virginia traditional bluegrass perennials Big Country Bluegrass have announced the addition of Daniel Martin to the band on banjo. Daniel has been picking the banjo since he was a young teen, sitting with his Earl Scruggs and Don Reno records, figuring out the banjo playing by ear. He says that whenever he got stuck, his […]
Tony King of Big Country Bluegrass needs our help
Big Country Bluegrass bass player Tony King and his family need your thoughts and prayers. King has a rare form of cancer that effects blood/bone marrow, and he will need a bone marrow transplant that will require him to stay in the UVA University Hospital, Charlottesville, for about four months. To assist in covering [...] Mountains, Mamas & Memories – Big Country Bluegrass
Nowadays, a band as unassuming and unpretentious as Big Country Bluegrass really stands out. It’s not that they’re reinventing the wheel; to the contrary, they’re taking a traditional stance that is as pure and unaffected as the influences from which their music has spawned. After 30 years of pursuing their muse with honesty and integrity, [...] The Whiskey or the Coal from Big Country Bluegrass
Mountain style bluegrass has always featured songs about running moonshine through the hills, and digging under them in the mines. In some parts of the Appalachian, Smokies, and Ozark ranges, mining and running whiskey might look like the only work that was available, especially a couple generations back. The Whiskey Or The Coal, a second [...] Country Boy, Banjo and Flat Top Guitar from Big Country Bluegrass
Rebel Records has released a debut single from their upcoming project from Big Country Bluegrass. Country Boy, Banjo and Flat Top Guitar will be included on the band's Mountains, Mamas, and Memories album, due to drop in late February. It is available now either as a single release, or as an instant download when you [...] Burn The Barn from Big Country Bluegrass
Rebel Records has released an advance single from Let Them Know I'm From Virginia, their upcoming album for Big Country Bluegrass. It's a new song from Tracy O'Connell that fits right in with the hard-charging, traditional bluegrass sound this bunch has specialized in for 30 years. And did you know they're from Virginia? Burn The [...] 