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Jeff Brown on stage - photo © 2017 by Mike Duncan Jeff Brown has made quite a name for himself on the traditional side of the bluegrass ledger in recent years. After several years touring with Larry Sparks in the '90s, followed by time with The Charlie Sizemore Band, Brown has been building a career [...]
Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome have released a second single from their current project, A Distant Horizon. It's The Soul Of A Mountain Man, written by Brown and Mike Bentley. This bluesy number with a familiar bluegrass message kicks off with silky banjo from Mitch Walker, and tells the story of the mountain life that, [...]
Cheryl McClellan has joined the team at Still Blue Entertainment, a company formed initially to represent Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome. Since launching with that focus, the agency has also taken on publicity for the James Wimmer Bristol Bluegrass Spring Fest, held each March in Bristol, VA, and Union House Records. Still Blue head Sherry [...]
A Distant Horizon, the new album from southwest Virginia’s Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome, proves at least one thing: the band takes its name to heart. Many of the songs here contemplate loss – of chances, of a home, and of life, to name a few. Shot through with dark, angry banjo and guided by [...]
Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome have created a teaser video to present brief samples of the songs from their new album, A Distant Horizon. It features Jeff's mountain style bluegrass, sung in his decidedly lonesome manner. The album was recorded with his touring band: Mitch Walker on banjo, Nick Goad on mandolin, Kyle Murphy on fiddle, [...]
A Better Game, the first single from the upcoming Union House Records project from Jeff Brown and Still Lonesome, A Distant Horizon, is released today to radio. It's a bluesy number from Scott Patrick and Jeff McClellan, in keeping with Brown's lonesome singing style, and was recorded with his young touring band. Kyle Murphy is on [...]
Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome has announced a band change. Banjo man Eli Gilbert is leaving the group. He is set to graduate this Spring from East Tennessee State University, and has accepted a teaching position in Maine after graduation, where he was born and raised. Eli wants to concentrate on his studies this last semester before [...]
Union House Records has begun operation, being the latest such venture created to focus on bluegrass music. It's structured as a sort of artist and writer's collective, owned and managed jointly by Mike Bentley, Jeff Brown, Shannon Slaughter, and Dale Felts. The label will release albums for each of the owners (Shannon & Heather Slaughter, Jeff Brown [...]
This weekend is the first of what it is expected to be an annual event, the Bristol Bluegrass Springfest, held at the Holiday Inn in Bristol, VA. The intention is to provide an indoor bluegrass event just as we all shake off the winter blues and get ready for spring. Bluegrass singer and bandleader Jeff [...]
A winner has been announced in the Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome Name That Bus contest. The object was - you guessed it - to come up with a name for the band's new blue bus. And the winner is Teresa Jewell of Rosedale, VA who suggested the name Midnight Flyer. Brown says that it was chosen from [...]
