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The new recording of John Anderson's 1981 hit, Chicken Truck, from Billy Droze, has got to be among the most hilarious and entertaining bluegrass cuts in recent years. Normally known for performing his own original music, Droze reached back to give this classic a bluegrass spin, and once the ball got rolling, it just took off. [...]
Irene Kelley has a new single this month, created by her established hit-making team that has placed song after song on our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart. This time it's a good old fashioned train song, Carolina Special, written by Kelley with Ronnie Bowman and our own Terry Herd. She says that it's based on [...]
Back in the day, when 78 and then 45 rpm vinyl disks were the way new music was made available to fans and radio alike, each would typically include two new songs. Record labels would mark them as the A and B sides, with the track of primary interest being the A side, and the [...]
The Engelhardt Music Group has released another single from Ronnie Bowman's recent self-titled album. It's a bluegrass classic, Gonna Be Raining When I Die, written by Bobby Osborne and Pete Goble, which has been memorably recorded by a number of bluegrass artists in the past, like The Osborne Brothers, The Country Gentlemen, and Live Wire. [...]
Mountain Fever Records has released a first single from their upcoming album with Lee Kotick and his Sharp Flatpickers. It's a new song written by Claire Lynch called Goodbye Again, which she sings as a duet with Ronnie Bowman. The song is a throwback of sorts to the country tearjerkers so popular in the 1960s. Think [...]
The name Ronnie Bowman needs little introduction in bluegrass circles. From his work with the Lost and Found, to his role as part of a quintessential version of the Lonesome River Band, to more recent solo work and recordings with the Band of Ruhks, Bowman has certainly left his mark on bluegrass music – and [...]
Irene Kelley has had quite a run with her current album, Benny's TV Repair. Its first four singles have made it to #1 on our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart, and stayed there for multiple weeks each time. This week the fifth single drops. Can she do it again? This time it's Hills Of Home, [...]
Ronnie Bowman is back with a third single from his upcoming solo project with Englehardt Music Group, a rip snorter of a song from Cowboy Copas called Alabam. And he has a couple of his Nashville singing buddies along for the ride, Bobby Bare and Del McCoury, who each take a couple of verses in [...]
Have I mentioned how nice it is having Ronnie Bowman active in bluegrass again? The former Lost and Found and Lonesome River Band vocalist was away for awhile after he found success in Nashville as a songwriter, but since re-emerging with the Band Of Ruhks in 2015, Ronnie has been cutting the grass on a [...]
Is there a bluegrass singer alive as roundly beloved and celebrated as Ronnie Bowman? As a writer and a singer, Bowman has been a part of our music since he was a youngster, first stepping up to a professional career with Lost & Found in 1988. His move to Lonesome River Band in 1990 was [...]
