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Kenny & Amanda Smith recently released a new gospel CD that we told you about here. They took the band to Nashville not long ago and recorded a a special for XM Radio. This feature will be running this morning as part of the Studio Special series on Bluegrass Junction with Kyle Cantrell. It airs [...]
California photographer Tom Tworek has recently posted a gallery of images he shot at SuperGrass, the California Bluegrass Association's annual indoor winter festival, which ran February 1-4. These were taken from the stage, and are mostly close up, portrait shots of bluegrass artists like JD Crowe & The New South, Kenny & Amanda Smith, The [...]
Today, January 30, is the official street release date for the Kenny & Amanda Smith CD Tell Someone, which we have been telling you about for some time. It's their first all-Gospel bluegrass release, and it is generating a lot of attention outside of the expected bluegrass circles. They have posted a couple of early [...]
The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band recently recorded a track by track interview with XM Radio's Kyle Cantrell. During the interview they discuss each track on their new gospel CD Tell Someone. The interview portions will be edited together with the tracks from the CD and the segment will be aired tomorrow, Sunday January 28th, [...]
The long awaited new release from Kenny & Amanda Smith on Rebel Records is due to hit the street on January 30, and radio promos are being shipped this week. Titled Tell Someone, it is the first all-Gospel project from this husband and wife team from southwest Virginia, featuring their band with a guest appearance [...]
Last January, both Brance and I had the chance to attend the Pickin' at the Paramount all star concert in Bristol, TN. The show was an offshoot of one that I helped organize in 2000 (reprised in 2001) to celebrate the release of Knee Deep In Bluegrass - The AcuTab Sessions. You can read my [...]
It seems that we created a bit of confusion when we posted about the new Kenny & Amanda Smith Gospel CD, Tell Someone, a few weeks ago. We passed along the news that the CD was available from Kenny & Amanda's web site, which is true, but that left the impression that a release was [...]
The Kenny and Amanda Smith Band has announced the availability of their latest recording, an all gospel project entitled Tell Someone. It is available online at their website or in person at their shows. There are also audio clips for several songs available on the merchandise page of their site. This is the third band [...]
Just ahead of the July trading deadline, Kenny & Amanda Smith have acquired Joey Cox from BlueRidge for Jason Davis, and a song to be named later. The trade was announced over the weekend by the Bluegrass Commissioner's office. OK... there was no trade. I made that part up. The baseball metaphor was just too [...]
We got a call earlier in the week from flatpick guitar demigod, Kenny Smith, just back from a whirlwind tour of the west coast. He taught at the Wintergrass Academy in late February, and then he and Amanda did some duo shows out west before heading back home to the Blue Ridge. Kenny mentioned that [...]
