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Lonesome River Band has signed an exclusive representation and management agreement with Moonstruck Management. The company is a new venture between two successful pros in music and artist representation: Josh Trivett, who manages Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and Peter Keiser, who developed the music store and quasi-label system for Cracker Barrel. LRB's Sammy Shelor tells [...]
Friday morning (2/24) will find Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band visiting Lonesome Pine RFD, airing on WFDU in the New York City metro market. Sam will join host Carol Beaugard at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) to talk about LRB's new 8 song CD, Chronology - Volume 1, due to hit February 28 on Rural Rhythm. You can [...]
Dean Hoffmeyer captured dozens of memorable images at yesterday's (2/19) Sizemore Benefit Concert in Roanoke, VA.
Forget the groundhog and his dismal forecast of six more weeks of winter. I saw a sure sign Sunday night that spring – and bluegrass festival season – is just around the corner. The occasion was the All-Star Jam at the Birchmere Music Hall just outside the nation’s capital, where a couple of hours of [...]
This past few years have seen a bluegrass variety show travel across the eastern US, billed as the Bluegrass All-Star Jam. Over the years it has hit dozens of cities, with a live concert featuring a bevy of top bluegrass artists performing together in a number of different groupings. Part of the appeal has been [...]
Another benefit concert has been scheduled in Knoxville for Phil Leadbetter, who continues to undergo treatment for a very stubborn cancer that has been try resistant to common therapies. Phil has dedicated his life to bluegrass music, working in turn as resonator guitarist for such notable acts as J.D. Crowe & the New South, Wildfire, Grasstowne, [...]
Speaking yesterday with Sammy Shelor, he mentioned that the first of three planned 8-song EPs from Lonesome River Band is set for a February 28 release on Rural Rhythm. This retrospective of the band's 30 years together will be titled Chronology, with the initial CD reaching back to the very beginnings of LRB, before Shelor [...]
Sammy Shelor, banjo player and leader of the Lonesome River Band, reports that plans are underway for the group to embark on an ambitious new recording project — a 30th anniversary retrospective that will have the group recording twenty-four songs, to be released in a series of three 8-song EPs, one for each decade of the group's existence. [...]
On Sunday, November 20, 2011, Rural Rhythm Records and some of its brightest stars gathered to celebrate the release of Bill Monroe 100th Year Celebration Live At Bean Blossom, a live recording of 12 selections from Rural Rhythm's family of artists, recorded live at the 45th annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. The CD release [...]
A suitably attired Lonesome River Band delivered another big shot in the arm for bluegrass music with an impeccable performance of Molly (Where's Your Man Tonight), a song that the band recorded for their No Turning Back album, released in September 2008. The band’s banjo man Sammy Shelor was the second winner of the Steve [...]
