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There are few sporting contests that rival the intensity of the annual meetings between the University of North Carolina and Duke University basketball teams, located just a scant few miles from one another in North Carolina's Research Triangle. UNC is in Chapel Hill and Duke in Durham, and the locals and the students unite in [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers have released a live video of Blue Velvet Rain from their current Radio album, performed with The Brevard Sinfonia. The song is a somber ballad written by Charles R. Humphrey III and Phil Barker, orchestrated for the video by Jonathan Sacks, and conducted by Ken Lam. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="69569"] The video was produced by [...]
The Mountain Song Festival, hosted each year in September by The Steep Canyon Rangers in Brevard, NC to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County, appears to have been another great success. Artists from all over the world performed for a large and enthusiastic audience at the Brevard Music Center. Rangers banjo man Graham [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers have released a live video of them performing Diamonds In The Dust, the second track on their brand new CD, Radio. They shot it at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC not far from where they live. Featured as a guest artist in the video is dobro great Jerry Douglas, who served as producer [...]
The Steep Canyon Rangers have released a music video from the title track of their upcoming album, Radio. It finds our heroes on stage amidst a dazzling light show, picking and singing in the studio, and jamming on the bus - the life of a bluegrass road musician. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="64677"] The video was [...]
The Steep Canyon Rangers have released a new music video from their upcoming Rounder album, Radio. It's for one which songwriter (and SCR banjo man) Graham Sharp calls a "good ol' bluegrass tornado song," Blow Me Away. The video was shot and edited by Adam Jones. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="63883"] Graham tells us that the album was recorded recently [...]
Here is our final gallery of photos from the Spring 2015 edition of the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Many thanks to Frank Baker for sending such lovely images. Be on the lookout for his photos from the Loudon Bluegrass Festival coming up soon.
Shelly Swanger went out with the Steep Canyon Rangers recently, and captured images from three shows in Atlanta, Tallahassee and Pensacola.
A new single was announced today from Edie Brickell and The Steep Canyon Rangers, a song written by Brickell and Steeps guitarist/vocalist Woody Platt. The song is Test Of Time, an old time bluegrass number that bounces back and forth between 3/4 and 2/4 time. It's sung as a duet between Edie and Woody, with the Rangers providing the [...]
Frank Baker was on hand once again for the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival this past weekend. We'll share his images over the next few days.
