Rebel Records has announced that the latest in their Vault Series, Dark As A Dungeon - Songs Of The Mines, will be released at the end of March. The CD will include mining songs from 14 Rebel artists including Blue Highway, Seldom Scene, Larry Sparks, The Country Gentlemen in the mix. The Vault Series is [...]
Blue Highway's official 15th Anniversary Concert had originally been scheduled for December 18 in Roanoke, VA. But there came a big snow... 18 inches of the white stuff fell, and the concert had to be postponed, but has now been rescheduled for March 12 at the beautiful Jefferson Center in downtown Roanoke. This is expected [...]
We've posted a few times about The Boxcars, the new supergroup formed late in 2009 by Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon, John Bowman and Keith Garrett. To date, they have only played a few shows together and are working on a recording now. There is a tremendous amount of excitement about the group based [...]
Blue Highway is zeroing in on the 15th anniversary of their very first live performance, which ocurred on New Year's Eve in 1994. At that time, Tim Stafford had just left his position with Alison Krauss, as had Shawn Lane his gig with Ricky Skaggs. Rob Ickes was recently married and none of the original [...]
Here's something you don't see every day... a bluegrass band celebrating a 15th anniversary - with the same personnel with which they launched. Blue Highway played their first show on New Year's Eve in 1994 with Tim Stafford on guitar, Shawn Lane on mandolin, Wayne Taylor on bass, Jason Burleson on banjo and Rob Ickes [...]
Here's something you don't see every day... a bluegrass band celebrating a 15th anniversary - with the same personnel with which they launched. Blue Highway played their first show on New Year's Eve in 1994 with Tim Stafford on guitar, Shawn Lane on mandolin, Wayne Taylor on bass, Jason Burleson on banjo and Rob Ickes [...]
Ross Nickerson is well known as a banjo instructor. His Banjo Encyclopedia book and multiple DVDs have been used by thousands of students of our beloved 5 string, and his camps and workshops are well attended all over the US (and the 7 seas). You would expect such a prolific teacher to also be a [...]
This is the third in our series of 2009 Red Carpet videos. These were filmed immediately prior to the IBMA Award Show. This one features Katy Daley interviewing Jason Burleson of Blue Highway. http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/jason_burleson.flv
One of the television attractions for April is the PBS documentary series Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People. The four-part series begins on April 9 and continues on each subsequent Thursday until the end of the month. Already released (on April 1) is the companion soundtrack CD entitled Appalachia: Music From Home (on Lonesome [...]
We posted earlier this year that Blue Highway was celebrating 2009 as their 15th anniversary as a band. They played their very first show on December 31, 1994, and are asking fans and friends to help them collect an anniversary album by sending along their photos of Blue Highway over the years. Prizes are being [...]
