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While working in the studio on their Classic History album, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver had the cameras rolling to capture footage for a promo video for Doyle's new Family of Friends fan club. The CD, only available to Family of Friends members, is a collection of Quicksilver classics recut by the current band. That promo [...]
Here's a look at the first two days of Red, White & Bluegrass from Bill Warren. More to come as the festival continues through this week.
Terry Herd was on hand for ROMP 2013 in Owensboro this weekend, and shared this gallery of images.
Doyle Lawson has launched a new fan site, designed to offer his most devoted followers the opportunity to more closely follow him, and his trusty band. And to entice folks to shell out the $60 membership fee, he and Quicksilver have created a new album of their classic hits, recut by the current group. Billed as Doyle [...]
Mike Kelly was kind enough to send a few of the photos he shot on Saturday when the Bluegrass Album Band and some loyal fans braved the rain for a reunion show at the Bloomin' Barbeque & Bluegrass Festival. The weather was wet and drizzly all day for this free, community event, but roughly 3,000 [...]
Compass Records has just released four digital albums of music recorded during the 2012 season of Music City Roots, a Nashville-based radio and television program airing each Wednesday evening from The Loveless Barn. Each of the four is titled based on loose stylistic groupings of the music featured on the show: GrassRoots, SongRoots, TwangRoots and SoulRoots. Of primary [...]
We posted on Monday that Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver had brought Dustin Pyrtle on board to sing and play guitar. Yesterday Judith Burnette, who hosts the Blue Ridge Backroads show on WBRF radio, sent along these photos of Dustin's first night with the band on April 6 at the Ruritan Club in Galax, VA [...]
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are among the unstoppable objects in the music world, recording and touring now in their 34th year. Together since Doyle Lawson stepped away from The Country Gentlemen in 1979, the band has seen dozens of personnel changes over the years, including some of the top current performers in bluegrass. But the train [...]
There are not many music genres in which fans are able to consistently interact with their heroes face-to-face, and even less where stars and legends will willingly sit down and talk or play music with fans. Thankfully, bluegrass is one of those genres. It’s not uncommon for some of the most popular musicians to be [...]
Despite his proper status as a bluegrass icon, IBMA Hall of Famer Doyle Lawson is an everyday kind of guy. Taught to work hard for what you earn in life, he has been able to reach the top of the musical echelon in part because he pays attention. He pays attention to the stories of [...]
