Lorraine Jordan autographs the back of the Loar mandolin prize for Jo Jo Murphy Earlier this year Lorraine Jordan launched a mandolin giveaway in celebration of the success of her Pinecastle Records single, Bill Monroe’s Ol Mandolin. Working with her friends at The Bluegrass Jamboree internet radio service, they set out to give away a brand [...]
Pinecastle Records has fun a fun way to celebrate the success of Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road's hit single, Bill Monroe's Ol Mandolin. They are teaming up with The Bluegrass Jamboree to give away a brand new Loar LM-310F mandolin, with four ways to enter. The song memorializes the day that Ricky Skaggs was inducted into [...]
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road are proud carriers of tradition in the world of bluegrass music, with many of their past hits proclaiming a love for classic grass and the sounds of an earlier era. Their newest effort from Pinecastle, Bill Monroe’s Ol' Mandolin, is no different. Namechecking some of the genre’s founding fathers in [...]
Pinecastle Records has a new music video this week for Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, featuring one of the songs from their current project, Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin. Like so much of their music, this one looks back to an earlier time with a remake of a country hit from Crystal Gayle called Ready For [...]
Is there anyone who would argue that Lorraine Jordan is among the hardest working women in bluegrass music? Not only does she manage a popular touring band, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, she also works with and helps manage the Garrett Newton Band, runs the Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies festival, and owns and operates [...]
With their next album from Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Bill Monroe's ol' Mandolin, set for release later this month, Pinecastle Records has produced a new music video for a second single from the record. It's for They Call It Bluegrass, written by popular North Carolina radio host Larry Nixon, a song very much in [...]
Pinecastle Records has released a music video today for the latest single from Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin. It carries the theme of their previous album, True Grass, and a return to the old time sound of bluegrass from its earliest days. This is even centered around the Father himself, Bill [...]
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road have been touring out on the west coast, and have sent us regular reports with photos from the west coast. Here is their final installment, from Lorraine and bassist/vocalist Randy Graham. The final stop of our True Grass tour took us to Bluegrass On The Beach, a premiere festival in [...]
Randy Graham, Carl Pagter, and Ben Greene in Morgan Hill, CA Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road are touring now on the west coast, and have promised to send us regular reports with photos from the west coast. Here is one from bassist/vocalist Randy Graham. The California Bluegrass Association is by any definition one the finest organizations [...]
Junior Sisk with members of Carolina Road and The Southern Grass at the airport in Las Vegas Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road are touring now in California, and have promised to send us regular reports with photos from the west coast. Here is one from Ramona Beresford-Howe, a bluegrass lover and aspiring fiddler who caught [...]