Joe Dean leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Joe DeanBanjo player Joe Dean has announced that he is leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver after 8 years on the road with the band. Joe tells us that he has been touring professionally since he was 18 years old, and as he approaches his 30th birthday in July, he just figures it's time for a break. [...]

Stephen Burwell stepping away from Doyle Lawson

Stephen BurwellStephen Burwell with Quicksilver at the 2019 Darrington Bluegrass Festival - photo by Eric Frommer Fiddler Stephen Burwell has announced that he is stepping down from his position with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver after more than five years. The talented bowman grew up near Galveston, Texas, but now makes his home in Nashville, where he [...]

Leaving On Her Mind video from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Doyle Lawson & QuicksilverBilly Blue Records has released a new single, with a lyric music video, from their current album for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Live In Prague. This one features the newest member of Quicksilver, Jerry Cole, who many bluegrass fans will remember from his three years on bass with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out. Jerry [...]

Josh Swift leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Josh SwiftJosh Swift, reso-guitarist for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver this past 12 years, has announced his departure from the band. There he has served as more than just a band member, handling a great many logistical details for Doyle on the road, and engineering many of their recordings since coming onboard in 2007. Swift earned Doyle's [...]

Out In The Cold World from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Doyle Lawson & QuicksilverBilly Blue Records has released a new single for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, taken from their new album, Live In Prague, Czech Republic. It's a bluegrass classic with something of a storied history. Out In The Cold World was recorded by Bill Monroe in 1957 on his Knee Deep In Bluegrass album, and its authorship [...]

Living Like There’s No Tomorrow video from Doyle Lawson

Doyle Lawson & QuicksilverDoyle Lawson has been satisfying bluegrass audiences on stage, and in the studio, for more than 55 years. From time with Jimmy Martin as a young man, through to today's latest edition of Quicksilver, Doyle has showed the world what professionalism looks like in bluegrass. Now with his latest album, Live in Prague, Czech Republic, [...]

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Doyle Lawson

Doyle LawsonDoyle Lawson is one of the most highly awarded and revered artists in acoustic music. He is a mandolin master and an iconic band leader. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver recently released a live album, recorded early in 2019. Live in Prague, Czech Republic is available now on Billy Blue Records. Doyle’s father was in an a [...]

Live in Prague – Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Doyle Lawson & QuicksilverIt goes without saying that Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are among the most celebrated bands in bluegrass. Over the course of the group’s nearly 40 year career, they’ve accumulated a list of accomplishments that rivals any of those garnered by their contemporaries. Grammy nods, repeated recognition from the IBMA, numerous festival appearances, and a cameo appearance [...]

Doyle Lawson to Billy Blue Records

Doyle LawsonDoyle Lawson is the latest bluegrass artist to join Billy Blue Records, the new Nashville label run by Ed Leonard of Daywind Music Group and noted singer/songwriter Jerry Salley. This signing completes the first year of the label's existence, from its announcement and debut in June of 2018. Lawson joins an already impressive stable of [...]

Largest turnout ever for Doyle Lawson Festival

Doyle LawsonPaul Williams and Doyle Lawson at the 2019 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Festival - photo by Sandy Hatley For the past 39 years, Doyle Lawson, along with the Loflin family, has hosted the Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Bluegrass Festival at Denton FarmPark in central North Carolina. Originally held the week after the fourth of July, [...]

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