The Steep Canyon Rangers are scheduled as the musical guests on tonight's (May 3) edition of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The guys are stoked as it is their first guest appearance as just the band, without Steve Martin, with whom they had played the show several times. They have three shows this weekend [...]
Woody Platt is the guitarist and lead vocalist in the Steep Canyon Rangers, founded in 2000; he handles most of the band’s business matters. He grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina, where music was always around, and he first became aware of bluegrass music as a seven or eight-year-old. He says that [...]
To help celebrate this week's release of their latest album, Out In The Open, the Steep Canyon Rangers have released a behind-the-scenes video of one of the tracks. They cut this record live in the studio, and the video captures them in the moment. It is accented by comments from Ranger Graham Sharp, who wrote [...]
Yee-haw! The Steep Canyon Rangers are riding again! This time, they are out in the open, the great wide open! Thank goodness, because nothing about their new album, Out in the Open, should be concealed in any way. Like the bold, beautiful buffalo standing all alone on the record cover for all to see, the [...]
Just over a month after announcing the departure of founding member and bass player Charles Humphrey III, The Steep Canyon Rangers have a new bass man in hand. And they didn't have to look far to find him. Barrett Smith is a part of the same social and musical scene that started when the Rangers were [...]
Why are we not surprised that Steve Martin has released a hilarious music video for Strangest Christmas Yet, one of the tracks from his current project with Steep Canyon Rangers, The Long Awaited Album. It tells the story of a gaggle of oddball relatives who visit over the holiday, in Steve's inimitable style. [jwplayer player="7" [...]
We've always said that bluegrass brings people together, and this past weekend, The Steep Canyon Rangers got the chance to make that happen in a very real way. During their set on Friday night in Roanoke, VA, Jacob Harbour - bass player with Rich In Tradition - convinced the Steeps to let him come on [...]
Steve Martin has released a third music video from his newly-released project, The Long-Awaited Album, with The Steep Canyon Rangers. It's an animated feature, created by LA-based Fantoons, that follows the story of Steve's composition from the album, Santa Fe. In the song, it sounds like a fairly conventional tale of boy meets girl, boy [...]
Graham Sharp. Last name fits. Absolutely nothing dull about this guy. Sharp as a tack, in fact. He rips banjo rolls, belts out bold baritone, and plays the harmonica with hurricane force, sometimes all on the same song! He is the banjo player with whom the awarder of the Prize for Excellence in Banjo and [...]
We heard this morning from Graham Sharp, banjo man with Steep Canyon Rangers, who shared a report from their 12th annual Mountain Song Festival in Brevard, NC in September. The festival is a charity event, with proceeds donated to area Boys and Girls Clubs. The money is used by the clubs for a wide range [...]
The Steep Canyon Rangers are scheduled as the musical guests on tonight's (May 3) edition of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The guys are stoked as it is their first guest appearance as just the band, without Steve Martin, with whom they had played the show several times. They have three shows this weekend [...] 
Woody Platt is the guitarist and lead vocalist in the Steep Canyon Rangers, founded in 2000; he handles most of the band’s business matters. He grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina, where music was always around, and he first became aware of bluegrass music as a seven or eight-year-old. He says that [...] 
To help celebrate this week's release of their latest album, Out In The Open, the Steep Canyon Rangers have released a behind-the-scenes video of one of the tracks. They cut this record live in the studio, and the video captures them in the moment. It is accented by comments from Ranger Graham Sharp, who wrote [...] 
Yee-haw! The Steep Canyon Rangers are riding again! This time, they are out in the open, the great wide open! Thank goodness, because nothing about their new album, Out in the Open, should be concealed in any way. Like the bold, beautiful buffalo standing all alone on the record cover for all to see, the [...] 
Just over a month after announcing the departure of founding member and bass player Charles Humphrey III, The Steep Canyon Rangers have a new bass man in hand. And they didn't have to look far to find him. Barrett Smith is a part of the same social and musical scene that started when the Rangers were [...] 
Why are we not surprised that Steve Martin has released a hilarious music video for Strangest Christmas Yet, one of the tracks from his current project with Steep Canyon Rangers, The Long Awaited Album. It tells the story of a gaggle of oddball relatives who visit over the holiday, in Steve's inimitable style. [jwplayer player="7" [...] 
We've always said that bluegrass brings people together, and this past weekend, The Steep Canyon Rangers got the chance to make that happen in a very real way. During their set on Friday night in Roanoke, VA, Jacob Harbour - bass player with Rich In Tradition - convinced the Steeps to let him come on [...] 
Steve Martin has released a third music video from his newly-released project, The Long-Awaited Album, with The Steep Canyon Rangers. It's an animated feature, created by LA-based Fantoons, that follows the story of Steve's composition from the album, Santa Fe. In the song, it sounds like a fairly conventional tale of boy meets girl, boy [...] 
Graham Sharp. Last name fits. Absolutely nothing dull about this guy. Sharp as a tack, in fact. He rips banjo rolls, belts out bold baritone, and plays the harmonica with hurricane force, sometimes all on the same song! He is the banjo player with whom the awarder of the Prize for Excellence in Banjo and [...] 
We heard this morning from Graham Sharp, banjo man with Steep Canyon Rangers, who shared a report from their 12th annual Mountain Song Festival in Brevard, NC in September. The festival is a charity event, with proceeds donated to area Boys and Girls Clubs. The money is used by the clubs for a wide range [...] 