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Mountain Home Music has released a compilation album for Lonesome River Band, containing 12 tracks from the band's prior projects for the label, which are no longer available on CD. LRB's Sammy Shelor chose the tracks for Coming Back Home To You along with the current band from Window Of Time, Head On Into Heartache, and [...]
Frank Baker shared these images from last weekend's August Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, with more to come.
Whether it's generals Robert E. Lee and George G. Meade or the musicians at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, this resort village in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania will always be a place where the North meets the South. The stage was set Thursday, August 13 for the first day of the August 2015 festival [...]
Nestled on a hillside in historic downtown Spruce Pine, N.C., my companion and I enjoyed some of the best bluegrass music, food and small town atmosphere I’ve encountered. Now in its fourth year, the Spruce Pine Barbecue Championship and Bluegrass Festival held July 17–18 featured perennial favorites Blue Highway and the Lonesome River Band atop [...]
Betsy White shared this video of Lonesome River Band performing at last month's Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Charlotte, MI. She captured them doing Daniel Salyer's Jack Up The Jail, which the band recorded for their Still Learning album in 2010. The live version includes banjo ace Sammy Shelor going on an extended five string jaunt, followed [...]
Volume Five opened Thursday at Rudy Fest 2015 to an appreciative crowd. Their set was washed out by rain last year, but sunshine held for this year’s! Wildfire followed providing some memories of time spent with J.D. Crowe. Danny Davis joined Wildfire and son, Chris Davis, for a couple songs. Joe Mullins and the Radio [...]
The final day of the 2015 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival was kicked off by one of Michigan’s favorite bands, Out of the Blue. Donna Ulisse and the Poor Mountain Boys made their first appearance at the Charlotte festival. Donna’s heartfelt songs keep an audience enthralled. Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time made his first Michigan appearance [...]
Sammy Shelor and Mike Hartgrove of Lonesome River Band were invited to perform at last night's gala honoring Steve Martin with the 43rd American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award. They were featured onstage with comedian/actor Martin Short singing the song, Friend Of Mine. While Steve was aware of most of the people set to appear, Sammy and Mike were [...]
Lonesome River Band has announced the addition of Jesse Smathers to the band on mandolin and vocals. He takes the spot of Randy Jones who is now working outside the music business. Bluegrass fans will recognize Jesse from his work with James King, Nothin' Fancy, and High Voltage. He's a North Carolina native, where he grew [...]
Lonesome River Band has released a music video for Lila Mae, a somber song of deceit and retribution from their current Mountain Home album, Turn On A Dime. It's a full-on concept video shot at at Wheatlands Plantation in Sevierville, TN, and set in the Civil War south. Characters in the video are played by Josh Trivett, [...]
