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Doyle Lawson has announced plans to combine several of his passions this next few months with a series of visits to major universities and children's hospitals throughout the southeastern US. Billed as the Children’s Hospital and Arena Tour, it will involve Doyle and the boys singing the National Anthem at the start of college basketball [...]
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver performing with a drummer! Has the whole world gone mad? What's next... electric pickups, flying to gigs, a 20 minute jam version of Yellow River? Or, in the words of the immortal Peter Venkman: "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" OK... so it wasn't as dire as all [...]
Rebel Records has announced February 1, 2011 as the release date for Hymns From The Hills, the first all-Gospel project from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers. Mullins has established himself as one of bluegrass music's true Renaissance men. Before purchasing and successfully managing a number of radio stations in southern Ohio, Joe established himself [...]
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. [...]
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver The Whites and Jerry Douglas
Doyle Lawson will debut his most recently modified iteration of Quicksilver this weekend at the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, KY. Mike Rogers has joined the band, where he will play bass guitar and sing tenor. Mike has spent most of the past 10 years in country music, much of it on drums and high [...]
As citizens of West Virginia honor the memory of their recently deceased Senator, Robert C. Byrd, many long-time fans of bluegrass and old time music are recalling the Senator as a musician as well. Byrd played fiddle and sang in a traditional, Appalachian style, an image somewhat at odds with that of "the esteemed gentleman [...]
JD Crowe, Doyle Lawson and Paul Williams clearly qualify for "living legend" status in the world of bluegrass music. Though each is now a well-established bandleader, they all served an apprenticeship with the great Jimmy Martin as members of his Sunny Mountain Boys back in the day. Williams and Crowe served their time together with [...]
Mike Lane shot some great photos at the recent Doyle Lawson festival in Denton, NC last month. He captured many of the bands performing on the show, including Lost and Found, Dale Ann Bradley, Lonesome River Band, Dailey & Vincent, Grasstowne and Seldom Scene. The most fun for me were the pictures of the original [...]
Mandolin Cafe has a new interview up with Doyle Lawson, which is unique in two particular ways. First off, the questions came from members and readers of the site who, secondly, are mandolinists themselves, giving the interview a tone of musical seriousness, as this example shows. Question from RE Simmers: The tenor you sang with [...]
