Sideline is celebrating their 5th anniversary this weekend with a hometown show in Raleigh, NC. Not bad for a group that formed with a mission to only play a few shows in the fall of each year as their various schedules with other bands allowed. The band was the brainchild of Steve Dilling, during the [...]
In the past several years, Sideline has jumped from being a literal side project for some bluegrass A-listers to a fully-fledged band working its way to the top of the bluegrass world. With a few of those original “sidemen” on board, as well as the addition of several younger faces, Sideline has continued to up [...]
Sideline has been enjoying a #1 single, Thunder Dan, from Front and Center, which will be released on Friday, April 27 on the Mountain Home label. A video for the tune is currently in rotation on The Country Network and Bluegrass Ridge. A pedigreed six-piece powerhouse that has set the pace in bluegrass for over [...]
If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake. That was the name of a hit song back in the early '50s, and it looks like the folks at Mountain Home Music Company knew Sideline was coming for a visit this week. The band was celebrating having the #1 song on our Bluegrass [...]
Sideline has announced that fiddler Daniel Greeson is the newest member of the band, stepping in for Nathan Aldridge who left to take the job with IIIrd Tyme Out. Just 21 years of age, Daniel is currently a student in the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University. Despite his youth, Daniel already has three [...]
Mountain Home Music has dropped a second video for Sideline in advance of their upcoming album, Front and Center, due in late April. This track involves something of a gutty move in bluegrass, covering a song that Tony Rice recorded. Typically, once he cuts something, that is the final word. For this one, their version [...]
Sideline is wishing their young fiddler, Nathan Aldridge well, as he departs the band to join another touring group. While they send him off with high hopes for his future in bluegrass music, it also puts them in something of a bind with their own busy road schedule to keep up with. So they are [...]
There's a bunch of new music hitting today, with both singles and videos burning up the bluegrass airspace. Next up is the debut single from the upcoming Sideline project on Mountain Home. It's a familiar topic for a bluegrass song, the mountain man come to town causing murder and mayhem in his wake. Written by [...]
Sideline has announced the addition of Bailey Coe to the band, taking the spot recently vacated by reso-man Brad Hudson, who has departed to pursue a solo career. Bailey is a native North Carolinian, like several other members of the group. He has been the guitarist with The Grass Cats in recent years, a Raleigh-based [...]
Brad Hudson, resonator guitarist and vocalist with Sideline, has announced that he will be leaving the group at the end of the year to tour in support of his recent Pinecastle release, Next New Heatbreak. Hudson has nothing but good things to say about his bandmates as he prepares to take his leave. “Sideline is [...]