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Here’s a further contribution of an occasional feature, where we ask bluegrass personalities to choose their top five Gospel songs. This week we hear from Bob Amos who has a particular love for the songs on an early 1970s Ralph Stanley album. Vermont born Bob Amos started singing in choirs / choral groups, in church [...]
Bob Amos is best known for fronting the Colorado-based band Front Range that played together during the period from 1988 through to 2004, during which period they released seven albums. Amos wrote roughly 75% of the songs recorded by Front Range, most prominent among these are One Beautiful Day (the 1991 IBMA Gospel Recording of [...]
Frank Baker was on hand when the 2014 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival was held earlier this month. Here's his first of several galleries.
We got a note recently from Bob Amos, whose current band, Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing, has been featured at concerts and festivals in the northeast this past 2013 season. “I am working on a new bluegrass album. Once again it will be mostly material that I've written, plus a cover or two. My daughter [...]
Bob Amos is best known as the leader of the Front Range, a quartet formed in 1984 and based in the Denver and Fort Collins area, named after the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies. He was born the fourth of five children and was influenced early on by his eldest brother, who brought bluegrass [...]
Bass player Bob Schacht passed away at his home in Flagstaff on December 30, 2012. He was 69 years old. Born September 18, 1943, in Racine, Wisconsin, Robert Marshall Schacht was the second of five children. His was a musical family and he pursued his love of music throughout his life, playing up-right bass and [...]
Here's a second gallery of Frank Baker's fine photos from the 2012 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival. One more still to come.
It’s been nearly a decade since Bob Amos put out a bluegrass CD, with the talented and widely praised band Front Range. But fans who have pined for Front Range since the band’s final album in 2003 will find the former frontman’s project, Borrowed Time, worth waiting for. And those who hear this CD but [...]
If you have followed bluegrass music more than ten years or so, you'll recall a band from Colorado called Front Range. They had a string of successful records and toured all over the US until the death of a band member brought the enterprise to a close. The band has been quiet now for six [...]
Tonight (March 20) will find bluegrass singer/songwriter Bob Amos as the guest on The Bluegrass Guide's monthly Songwriter Chat. Bob is a founding member of Colorado's Front Range, and has a new CD with his Bob Amos Band, Reels Of Life, recently released. This will be an interactive online conversation, where songwriters are encouraged to [...]
