Jeff Rose and Missy Armstrong from Detour recorded this video as a Merry Christmas wish for all their fans and friends. It's their unadorned arrangement of Go Tell It On The Mountain. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="61328"] Any time is a good time to hear Missy sing, and that includes Christmas time.
Keeping with the Veterans Day theme, two popular bluegrass groups have made donations this week to veterans groups, based on sales of their music online. Joe Mullins used the occasion of this past weekend's Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival to present a check for $3000 to the Ohio State Captain of the Patriot Guard Riders, based [...]
We had a nice chat last week with Missy Armstrong and Jeff Rose of Detour during the IBMA's World of Bluegrass Convention in Raleigh. They talked about their current CD, Going Nowhere Fast, and their new lineup. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="60317"] We have a lot more video interviews from IBMA, so keep watch here for the [...]
What do you do if you notice that the Saturday roster at your festival features four out of the five recently announced nominees for the IBMA Emerging Artist award for 2014? Mark Gaynier at the Milan Bluegrass Festival did the sensible thing, and arranged for Detour, Flatt Lonesome, The Spinney Brothers, and Volume Five to [...]
Detour really shook up the bluegrass world in 2012 with the release of A Better Place, the Michigan band's third album. It was remarkable for the introduction of a new voice and sound in the person of Missy Armstrong, the group's then new lead vocalist. With a clarity and freshness that seemed to have come out [...]
I mentioned over the weekend in the just how much I was enjoying Detour's latest album, Going Nowhere Fast. We'll have a review of the record soon, but in the meantime, here are a couple of videos shot earlier this month when they appeared at Zellie's Opry House in Howard City, MI. First up is Missy [...]
Detour fans have been anxiously awaiting new music from the band since word first started circulating about a new recording some months ago. Expectations have been high since the success they enjoyed with their last record, A Better Place, and today Mountain Fever Records has announced a debut single from their upcoming album. Too Blue [...]
In one of the least well-kept secrets in SW Virginia, Detour has been recording recently at Mountain Fever Studio in Willis. The Michigan band broke out nationally in 2012 with their album, A Better Place, and speculation about a follow-up has been rampant ever since. Today it is announced that this next project will be [...]
As a reviewer, few things are more satisfying than encountering an artist with whom you are unfamiliar, and finding them to be as strong a contender for headliner status as anyone currently working the circuit. It's also a bit humbling, as you have to squash the "Why haven't I heard of these guys?" impulse that [...]
Jeff Rose and Missy Armstrong from Detour recorded this video as a Merry Christmas wish for all their fans and friends. It's their unadorned arrangement of Go Tell It On The Mountain. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="61328"] Any time is a good time to hear Missy sing, and that includes Christmas time. 
Keeping with the Veterans Day theme, two popular bluegrass groups have made donations this week to veterans groups, based on sales of their music online. Joe Mullins used the occasion of this past weekend's Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival to present a check for $3000 to the Ohio State Captain of the Patriot Guard Riders, based [...] 
We had a nice chat last week with Missy Armstrong and Jeff Rose of Detour during the IBMA's World of Bluegrass Convention in Raleigh. They talked about their current CD, Going Nowhere Fast, and their new lineup. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="60317"] We have a lot more video interviews from IBMA, so keep watch here for the [...] 
Here's another batch of Frank Baker's images from the 2014 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival. 
What do you do if you notice that the Saturday roster at your festival features four out of the five recently announced nominees for the IBMA Emerging Artist award for 2014? Mark Gaynier at the Milan Bluegrass Festival did the sensible thing, and arranged for Detour, Flatt Lonesome, The Spinney Brothers, and Volume Five to [...] 
Detour really shook up the bluegrass world in 2012 with the release of A Better Place, the Michigan band's third album. It was remarkable for the introduction of a new voice and sound in the person of Missy Armstrong, the group's then new lead vocalist. With a clarity and freshness that seemed to have come out [...] 
I mentioned over the weekend in the just how much I was enjoying Detour's latest album, Going Nowhere Fast. We'll have a review of the record soon, but in the meantime, here are a couple of videos shot earlier this month when they appeared at Zellie's Opry House in Howard City, MI. First up is Missy [...] 
Detour fans have been anxiously awaiting new music from the band since word first started circulating about a new recording some months ago. Expectations have been high since the success they enjoyed with their last record, A Better Place, and today Mountain Fever Records has announced a debut single from their upcoming album. Too Blue [...] 
In one of the least well-kept secrets in SW Virginia, Detour has been recording recently at Mountain Fever Studio in Willis. The Michigan band broke out nationally in 2012 with their album, A Better Place, and speculation about a follow-up has been rampant ever since. Today it is announced that this next project will be [...] 
As a reviewer, few things are more satisfying than encountering an artist with whom you are unfamiliar, and finding them to be as strong a contender for headliner status as anyone currently working the circuit. It's also a bit humbling, as you have to squash the "Why haven't I heard of these guys?" impulse that [...] 