Mountain Home Music has a new single for Lonesome River Band, which may a first listen to the newly-revised lineup of the band. With banjo man Sammy Shelor still firmly in control, and right hand man Mike Hargrove beside him on fiddle, there are two new members of LRB since their last recording. Adam Miller, [...]
Jesse Smathers, guitarist and tenor vocalist with Lonesome River Band, has announced a new self-titled solo project, with a new single out today for everyone to get a taste. Folks in the Virginia/Carolina region have known of this young artist's talent long before he hit the big time with LRB. You would see him at [...]
It goes without saying that bluegrass is part of a timeless tradition that’s been carried forward from one generation to the next. Even those artists and ensembles that publicly profess the need to add their own individual elements to the mix will generally cite their reverence for the roots as well. Consequently, it's not surprising [...]
Following the past year of restricted performance opportunities for touring artists, a lot of your favorite bands may look a bit different this summer season. Not many folks can survive a year with no income, and we have seen a number of musicians already leave a music career behind since the shutdowns. Today we have [...]
With a new single from Lonesome River Band due tomorrow (June 4), Mountain Home Music has agreed to give our readers a sneak peek one day early. It's a new song called Cumberland River Shore, written as a tribute to the great John Hartford by Billy Smith and Matt Combs. You can hear echoes of [...]
Sammy Shelor has announced a big change coming next month for Lonesome River Band. Long time guitarist Brandon Rickman is leaving the group after almost two decades of touring and recording with the group. Current mandolinist, Jesse Smathers, will move over to guitar, with Adam Miller coming in to take that spot. Miller is a [...]
Mountain Home Music has a second new single from Lonesome River Band this week, this time a kickin' bluegrass number, Little At A Time, featuring mandolinist Jesse Smathers on the lead vocal. Few bands on the circuit today can brag of the history and achievements of Lonesome River Band. Since their formation in the early [...]
Friday, February 19, is the release date for Love Songs, a new single from bluegrass powerhouse Lonesome River Band on the Mountain Home Music label. LRB has been at the forefront of contemporary bluegrass since the early 1990s, when their epic Carrying The Tradition album broke the mold and inspired the driving, "mash" sound that [...]
Here's another new single this week from Mountain Home Music, this time for perennial bluegrass headliners, Lonesome River Band. LRB has been touring and recording now for almost 40 years, and despite occasional personnel changes along the way, band leader Sammy Shelor just keeps chugging right along. Over the decades, they have released a number [...]
Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has released another book of transcriptions, this time featuring the playing of Dan Tyminski with Lonesome River Band. Tristan has transcribed all of Dan's solos from LRB's breakout album, Carrying The Tradition, which set the bluegrass world on fire back in 1991. Prior to the release of this record, Lonesome River [...]
Mountain Home Music has a new single for Lonesome River Band, which may a first listen to the newly-revised lineup of the band. With banjo man Sammy Shelor still firmly in control, and right hand man Mike Hargrove beside him on fiddle, there are two new members of LRB since their last recording. Adam Miller, [...] 
Jesse Smathers, guitarist and tenor vocalist with Lonesome River Band, has announced a new self-titled solo project, with a new single out today for everyone to get a taste. Folks in the Virginia/Carolina region have known of this young artist's talent long before he hit the big time with LRB. You would see him at [...] 
It goes without saying that bluegrass is part of a timeless tradition that’s been carried forward from one generation to the next. Even those artists and ensembles that publicly profess the need to add their own individual elements to the mix will generally cite their reverence for the roots as well. Consequently, it's not surprising [...] 
Following the past year of restricted performance opportunities for touring artists, a lot of your favorite bands may look a bit different this summer season. Not many folks can survive a year with no income, and we have seen a number of musicians already leave a music career behind since the shutdowns. Today we have [...] 
With a new single from Lonesome River Band due tomorrow (June 4), Mountain Home Music has agreed to give our readers a sneak peek one day early. It's a new song called Cumberland River Shore, written as a tribute to the great John Hartford by Billy Smith and Matt Combs. You can hear echoes of [...] 
Sammy Shelor has announced a big change coming next month for Lonesome River Band. Long time guitarist Brandon Rickman is leaving the group after almost two decades of touring and recording with the group. Current mandolinist, Jesse Smathers, will move over to guitar, with Adam Miller coming in to take that spot. Miller is a [...] 
Mountain Home Music has a second new single from Lonesome River Band this week, this time a kickin' bluegrass number, Little At A Time, featuring mandolinist Jesse Smathers on the lead vocal. Few bands on the circuit today can brag of the history and achievements of Lonesome River Band. Since their formation in the early [...] 
Friday, February 19, is the release date for Love Songs, a new single from bluegrass powerhouse Lonesome River Band on the Mountain Home Music label. LRB has been at the forefront of contemporary bluegrass since the early 1990s, when their epic Carrying The Tradition album broke the mold and inspired the driving, "mash" sound that [...] 
Here's another new single this week from Mountain Home Music, this time for perennial bluegrass headliners, Lonesome River Band. LRB has been touring and recording now for almost 40 years, and despite occasional personnel changes along the way, band leader Sammy Shelor just keeps chugging right along. Over the decades, they have released a number [...] 
Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has released another book of transcriptions, this time featuring the playing of Dan Tyminski with Lonesome River Band. Tristan has transcribed all of Dan's solos from LRB's breakout album, Carrying The Tradition, which set the bluegrass world on fire back in 1991. Prior to the release of this record, Lonesome River [...] 