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The Graves Mountain Festival of Music has been a staple event on the bluegrass calendar each year since they held their first event 18 years ago. Held annually on or near the Memorial Day weekend, Graves has had a traditional of featuring band mash-ups and guest performances as part of the Saturday night shows, and [...]
And speaking of Brandon Rickman... Brandon and his wife Amy welcomed their first child, Briar Lee Rickman, into the world last week. Briar was born on May 11 at 12:45 p.m. (CDT). He weighed in at 7.9 lbs, standing 20.5'' tall. Welcome Briar, and congratulations to Amy and Brandon!
The first single from the next Lonesome River Band CD has gone out to radio. It's a medium-tempo ballad called Record Time Machine written by Marvin Clark, and tells the story of "that old RCA phonograph record time machine" that takes you back to the music you remember from another time. Here's just a little [...]
The first single from the next Lonesome River Band CD has gone out to radio. It's a medium-tempo ballad called Record Time Machine written by Marvin Clark, and tells the story of "that old RCA phonograph record time machine" that takes you back to the music you remember from another time. Here's just a little [...]
Don Rigsby hosted a reunion of one of the classic Lonesome River Band lineups this past weekend at The Mountain Arts Center in Prestonburg, KY. The show featured Don, Ronnie Bowman, Sammy Shelor and Kenny Smith, who performed together as LRB from 1995 to 2001, and recorded three albums for Sugar Hill (One Step Forward, [...]
In February, we posted about a special project band featuring a number of notable pickers who were getting together to do some off-season concert gigs. The band will include John Miller on guitar, Jesse Brock on mandolin, Joey Cox on banjo and Mike Conner on bass. A number of other pickers and singers have agreed [...]
Lonesome River Band is on the cover of the February 2010 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, on newstands now. The cover feature - plus a sidebar on LRB guitarist/vocalist Brandon Rickman - was written by Chris Stuart, a regular BU contributor and a noted west coast songwriter and bandleader. Chris tells us that he came away [...]
Bradon Rickman, head crooner and guitarist with Lonesome River Band, has been chosen as the recipient of the Spirit Award's Song Of The Year for 2010. These awards are given by Strictly Country magazine based on fan voting, and the editors report that Wearin’ Her Knees Out Over Me, from Brandon's Young Man, Old Soul [...]
Lonesome River Band is one of bluegrass music's longest running touring acts. They recently completed 28 years recording and performing under that name, serving as a proving ground for some of today's most celebrated bluegrass artists in the process. Adam Steffey, Dan Tymisnki, Ronnie Bowman, Kenny Smith, Don Rigsby, Jeff Parker, Rickie Simpkins, Steve Dilling, [...]
Sammy Shelor tells us that Lonesome River Band is in the studio this week tracking material for a new CD on Rural Rhythm Records. They are cutting at Mountain Fever Studio in Riner, VA. "In the last two days we have laid down the starting tracks for 10 songs and hope to pick the remaining [...]
