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Darin & Brooke Aldridge have let loose a song from their upcoming So Much In Between CD, due August 16 from Crossroads. It was recorded by their road band, with Darin on guitar, Brooke on mandolin, Chris Bryant on banjo, Dwayne Anderson on bass, and Rachel Rene Johnson on fiddle. Guests include Rob Ickes on [...]
A couple of popular North Carolina bands have brought on new bass players this past few days. Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road have announced that Eddie Biggerstaff will handle the low end for them on the road. Eddie spent several years with Blue Ridge and has performed and recorded with Herschel Sizemore, Larry Rice, and [...]
Darin and Brooke Aldridge are in the studio this month completing what will be their second project for the Mountain Home label. As was the case with their self-titled 2010 album, this one is being overseen by noted Nashville songwriter and producer, Jerry Salley. Darin told us lat week that when it came time to [...]
Crossroads has launched their new online Video Vault, offering download or streaming purchase of live concerts from their Gospel and bluegrass artists. These are high quality videos, professionally shot and switched live with no editing to preserve the essence of the live event. Two bluegrass videos are among the debut releases, featuring Crossroads/Mountain Home artists [...]
Western North Carolina bluegrass group Balsam Range, has announced an exciting new concert series. Taking place at the Colonial Theatre, originally built in 1932 and then restored in 1992 and again in 2006, in the band's hometown of Canton, NC, the concert series features some great bluegrass bands and some innovative technology. Balsam Range will [...]
The folks at Mountain Home/Crossroads have a special digital release of Christmas music featuring three of their top bluegrass artists. These are all new recordings which can be purchased for download either individually, or as an album. A Mountain Home Christmas offers songs from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Balsam Range and Darin & Brooke Aldridge. [...]
Right on time... The bluegrass band rotations start this time each year, sometime after IBMA, roughly coinciding with the baseball playoffs. Unrestricted free agency in bluegrass does create headaches for bandleaders, but it's not something that can be avoided in a business like ours. The first announcement of the fall trading season comes from fiddler [...]
This post is a contribution from Tom Bibey, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. You can see his profile here. Fan Fest has more music than anyone can take in. I covered the Darin and Brooke Aldridge show for Bluegrass Today as my last assignment for the week. The husband wife duo of Darin and [...]
This post is a contribution from Terri Holloway, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. See her profile here. The vendor Exhibit Hall opened to a small throng at noon on Tuesday, and although there don't seem to be as many vendors as last year, those here are chatting with the (small) crowds milling around. This [...]
Darin and Brooke Aldridge appeared today on Charlotte Today, the noontime local news show on WCNC in... you guessed it, Charlotte, NC. Together with Chris Bryant on banjo, Eddie Biggerstaff on bass, Perry Woodie on resonator guitar, and Josh Green on fiddle, here they are performing the song Corn from their eponymous Mountain Home Records [...]
