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Mountain Heart is having a heckuva strong start to their new year. Fiddler Jim VanCleve tells us that they have kicked off 2012 with a string of ten sold out shows, with a couple of nearly full houses in the mix as well. This is the best two months the band has seen in their [...]
Mountain Heart performed in Augusta, GA on Friday evening, along with special guests Terry Baucom and Tony Rice. On these shows, the material tends to focus on Rice's rich catalog of music, as this video attests. It has Barry Abernathy taking on Tony's vocal chores from the Bluegrass Album Band's definitive, post Flatt & Scruggs [...]
Mountain Heart has released video of newest member Seth Taylor's first shows with the band. The barely-legal guitarist has just joined up after a stint with Monroeville while still in school. The guys captured footage on stage and behind the scenes as they toured in Connecticut and New York this past weekend. It looks as though [...]
Seth Taylor, late of Monroeville, has been announced as the new guitarist with Mountain Heart, though the band is preferring to label him the latest musician to join up with them. In a statement this morning, Mountain Heart welcomed Taylor into the group, and offered well wishes for departing member Jake Stargel. "For the past [...]
We just heard from Mountain Heart's bluesy front man, Josh Shilling, with an update on the solo project he's been working on for the past several months. Josh spoke with us about this about this during the summer, but says that work stalled when band work took off this year. "Three months of my life [...]
Mountain Heart's That Just Happened radio show on WSM in Nashville airs the first Tuesday of each month from 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Central). Jim Van Cleve and Josh Shilling are your jovial hosts for a program that shares a name with their most recent CD, a 7 song EP released in October 2010. Earlier this week, [...]
Here's some video shot backstage before Mountain Heart's recent performance on NPR's Mountain Stage, along with some extended clips from their live set on the broadcast. The show, which featured songs from the band's That Just Happened CD, was aired over this past weekend, and can be heard now in its entirety on the NPR [...]
There's bluegrass a'plenty on this weekend's edition on Mountain Stage, airing on dozens of NPR affiliates across the US. Nashville bad boys Mountain Heart will be featured, as well as Michigan's Greensky Bluegrass and the singing bluegrass attorney, Charlie Sizemore - who is sure to perform his current hit, No Lawyers In Heaven. Jim Van [...]
July 4 was a big day for Mountain Heart lead vocalist Josh Shilling. The band was booked to open for southern rockers Marshall Tucker Band in Josh's hometown of Martinsville, VA, at the fabled Martinsville Speedway. For several years before he was tapped by Mountain Heart, Josh was a popular musician and vocalist in southwest [...]
Sounds like big fun's a-brewin' this afternoon on WSM. At 3:00 p.m. (EDT), Jim VanCleve and Josh Shilling of Mountain Heart will welcome Sam Bush into the legendary WSM studio for this month's edition of That Just Happened with Mountain Heart. Jim tells us that the plan is to both have a nice chat with [...]
