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Lonesome River Band has signed an exclusive representation and management agreement with Moonstruck Management. The company is a new venture between two successful pros in music and artist representation: Josh Trivett, who manages Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and Peter Keiser, who developed the music store and quasi-label system for Cracker Barrel. LRB's Sammy Shelor tells [...]
In their latest project, Chronology - Vol 1, the Lonesome River Band has undertaken a daunting task. The current edition of the band has chosen to mark LRB's 30th anniversary by re-recording a sample of material from its past catalogue. They will be releasing three eight-song volumes, drawing a set from each of the three [...]
Friday morning (2/24) will find Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band visiting Lonesome Pine RFD, airing on WFDU in the New York City metro market. Sam will join host Carol Beaugard at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) to talk about LRB's new 8 song CD, Chronology - Volume 1, due to hit February 28 on Rural Rhythm. You can [...]
Tonight's (2/1) edition of Music City Roots is bluegrass, bluegrass, bluegrass. Scheduled to perform this evening from the Loveless Barn in Nashville are Lonesome River Band, Chris Jones & the Nightdrivers, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Special Consensus and Darrell Scott. Jim Lauderdale will host the program, which is broadcast online at 8:00 p.m. (EST). Talking [...]
Randy Driskill (Randolph to his bluegrass music friends, except for Terry Baucom who still fondly calls him Disco) is as much of a natural musician as there is. God truly gave this man a talent for hearing a song and then reproducing it on just about any instrument that touches his hands. Born April 13, [...]
Lonesome River Band has dropped a debut single from the first volume of their 30th anniversary project, Chronology. The album will be released in three volumes by Rural Rhythm, each in an 8-song EP format covering one decade of the band's illustrious history, the first of which is set for release on February 28. To get [...]
Speaking yesterday with Sammy Shelor, he mentioned that the first of three planned 8-song EPs from Lonesome River Band is set for a February 28 release on Rural Rhythm. This retrospective of the band's 30 years together will be titled Chronology, with the initial CD reaching back to the very beginnings of LRB, before Shelor [...]
Lonesome River Band has released a promotional video, shot prior to and during a recent performance at the Hayes Performing Arts Center in Blowing Rock, NC. It features Sammy and the guys on a set of material from their current Rural Rhythm CD, Still Learning, accentuated by some of the critical praise the band has received [...]
Two big bluegrass shows are scheduled for the next two days on Blue Plate Special, WDVX's live performance program out of Knoxville, TN. Lonesome River Band will be featured on today's (12/2) edition of the show, with Kenny & Amanda Smith set for Saturday. Both have something to crow about these days. LRB is about to [...]
Sammy Shelor, banjo player and leader of the Lonesome River Band, reports that plans are underway for the group to embark on an ambitious new recording project — a 30th anniversary retrospective that will have the group recording twenty-four songs, to be released in a series of three 8-song EPs, one for each decade of the group's existence. [...]
