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These photos from Oregon's Northwest String Summit were taken by Todd Powers.
We heard this morning from Woody Platt with Steep Canyon Rangers. They were one of the bands that benefited from the management expertise of Don Light, who passed away yesterday. The band asked that we share this remembrance. We were approached backstage at Graves Mountain Bluegrass Festival in June of 2004 by a slender, well dressed, gray-haired man [...]
In further evidence that bluegrass is developing more of a cool factor, Belk department store chose Steep Canyon Rangers for a two-page spread in the Raleigh, NC newspaper this past Sunday. The guys were modeling attire from famous designers offered at Belk, and looking quite fashionable and dapper. In other bluegrass fashion news... The Gibson [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers have released a new live music video, recorded at the CMT studio in Nashville when they visited earlier this year. It's for Stand And Deliver, a song written and sung by banjoist Graham Sharp, from their current Rounder project, Tell the Ones I Love.
Rounder has announced a March 11 release for Steve Martin's first ever live concert CD/DVD. It bears the unwieldy title, Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell Live. Recorded at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, CA last Fall, the package includes the live 2 hour program on both DVD and CD. Familiar [...]
Music lovers of a certain age will recall a British duet team called Peter & Gordon who had a number of hit songs during the mid-to-late 1960s. Their first big number was with a song Paul McCartney wrote as a teenager, World Without Love, in 1964. Multiple hits followed, but their duo broke up by [...]
Rounder Records has released a music video for the title cut of the Steep Canyon Rangers new album, Tell The Ones I Love - featuring an appearance from bluegrass music's favorite grandpa, Roland White, and a Sam Bush cameo. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="55056"]
Here are some photos from yesterday afternoon's Red Carpet pre-show, just prior to the 2013 International Bluegrass Music Awards at the Duke Energy Center in Raleigh, NC.
Over the past several years, few bluegrass bands have reached the level of acclaim which the Steep Canyon Rangers have found. Much of it is due to their frequent association with Steve Martin, but just as much or more is that, simply put, they're good at what they do. The band members are all very [...]
