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2012 nominees for the Inspirational Country Music Awards have been announced, and are rife with familiar names for bluegrass fans. The annual awards are distributed by the Christian Country Music Association, with winners to be announced during ICM week in Nashville this October. Rhonda Vincent received a nomination for Female Vocalist, as did Dailey & [...]
For the past 25 years, Darrel and Phyllis Adkins of Adkins Productions have hosted the Bluegrass Classic music festival in Columbus, Ohio. After their daughter, Mandy, passed away from an inoperable brain tumor in 2000, they joined with numerous bluegrass musicians to turn their annual festival into Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (MACC), with proceeds going [...]
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have been tapped to sing the National Anthem before this Friday's N.C. Education Lottery 200 NASCAR qualifying race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. They will sing a cappella, with Mike Rogers, Josh Swift and Corey Hensley joining Lawson around the microphone. The band is in good company, with country superstars Blake Shelton and [...]
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have a new music video for Country Store, from their 2011 CD, Drive Time. The song is a feel-good, slice-of-life number from Mike Rogers and Tom Botkin, with the video featuring last year's edition of the band. It was shot last summer at Memory Lane in Rogersville, TN with Kimberly White and [...]
Following a great Easter weekend celebrating Christ’s resurrection with loved ones, I decided to choose one of my favorite Gospel albums for this Album of the Week: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s Kept & Protected from 1997. Ever since their second album in 1981 (the quintessential Rock My Soul), Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have been leaders in [...]
Is it pure coincidence that Joe Dean is announced as the new banjo player with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver on the opening day of baseball season? It would appear that Doyle has traded former banjo picker Jessie Baker to Dailey & Vincent for Dean, and a drummer to be named later. But seriously folks... Touring [...]
Big doin's on the radio tomorrow (3/21) for bluegrass lovers. Wednesday morning at 11:00 a.m. marks the official premier of the highly-anticipated sophomore release from The Boxcars, All In, on Sirius-XM's Bluegrass Junction. All five members of the band sat recently with Kyle Cantrell for a discussion and play-through for his popular Track-By-Track program, which [...]
Rhonda Vincent tells us that she had a big time this past Saturday at the Itawamba Community College Benefit Concert in Fulton, MS, where she had the chance to complete a vocal trio with bluegrass legends Paul Williams and Doyle Lawson. This was the 12th year this event has been hosted to benefit the Regional Rehabilitation [...]
As we reported yesterday, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver were feted Monday afternoon in the Tennessee State Senate with a resolution honoring Doyle, his current band and their manager, Josh Trivett, for the band's many contributions to bluegrass Gospel music over 32 years. Each of them was presented with a framed copy of the resolution by [...]
Crossroads Music will release the latest in a long string of bluegrass Gospel albums from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver on March 20. This newest, Sing Me A Song About Jesus, offers 11 new songs from Doyle and the boys, all performed with the flair and virtuosity we have come to expect from this veteran bandleader. [...]
