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Audio from Blue Highway's recent radio performance on Mountain Stage can now be accessed at NPR.com. They included selections from several of their critically-acclaimed recordings, offering a fine taste of their live show for the Mountain Stage audience. Through the Window of a Train Wondrous Love Sycamore Hollow Last Hand Loader Nothing But A Whippoorwill [...]
Blue Highway is marking 2009 as their 15th performing together as a band, and asking their fans and friends to join in the celebration. They played their first show as a band on December 31, 1994 and, amazingly enough, are still working with the same five musicians who launched the band in '94. Banjo man [...]
Blue Highway is celebrating their first Cashbox cover, which graced the September 8, 2008 issue. Old timers in the music biz remember Cash Box as a prominent industry publication and one-time competitor of Billboard who put out a print edition from 1942 until 1996. They pioneered such now-familiar chart terms as "with a bullet," and [...]
Yesterday (Friday 6/13) I received a note from John Lilly, the editor of Goldenseal (the magazine of West Virginia traditional life) and multi-talented acoustic music performer, telling me about what's on West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage show this coming week. The programme schedule includes the recording of a show taped on March 16 in [...]
Blue Highway has found itself once again in the pages of Guitar Player magazine, surely among the most widely-circulated periodicals for musicians in the world. Resonator guitarist Rob Ickes was profiled in those pages in February of 2007, and both he and Tim Stafford are interviewed in the June 2008 issue. The focus of the [...]
MiND TV, based in Philadelphia, PA, is an independent public television initiative with an interesting twist. All of the content which is broadcast on TV (Channel 34 in Philly) or streamed online is made up of 5 minute segments. Four segments have recently been produced that feature Blue Highway. Each begins with a portion of [...]
CMT.com's Country Music Blog has just published Merlefest remembrances from three bluegrass artists. Rhonda Vincent, Blue Highway (Tim Stafford) and Sierra Hull share some thoughts about last weekend's mega-fest in North Wilkesboro, NC. Sierra had an especially poignant memory to cherish from Merlefest '08. "One thing that was particularly exciting about this year's Merlefest is [...]
Starting this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. (4/11 - EDT) there will be four opportunities to catch Blue Highway live on SIRIUS Bluegrass over the next few days. They will perform material from their latest CD, Through The Window Of A Train, whose title track has been voted #1 on SIRIUS for three weeks running. After [...]
Music Of Coal - Various Artists (Lonesome Records & Publishing CD 071); two CDs with 70 page book, released in 2007 The work of coal miners has long been commemorated in song, disasters have led to contemporaneous ballad type songs and personal acquaintance with victims of the industry has led to intense, heart-rending insights into [...]
Blue Highway will be the featured guest on this week's edition of Studio Special on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. They join host Kyle Cantrell for some live music from their new CD, Through the Window of a Train, and discussion about the songs, all of which were written within the band. The show will [...]
