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Rural Rhythm has released a debut single from New Day Dawning, the upcoming album from The Roys, due later this summer. It's a song written by Lee and Elaine Roy, Still Standing, which features Elaine on lead vocal and Lee singing duet on the choruses. Here's a taste of the track, which also boats of contributions [...]
Here is the final gallery of images from Frank Baker, shot on Sunday, the final day of last weekend's 2012 Spring Gettysburg Bluegrass festival. You can see the other three galleries here. Big thanks to Frank not only for shooting for us, but for sorting through and selecting all these pictures! This weekend, we have [...]
When the Passamano family moved from their homes in southern California to Nashville to relocate Rural Rhythm Records last year, they gave two specific reasons. One, and most obviously, was to be closer to the artists whose music they release, and the other to work towards a greater integration of their artists with music television [...]
In addition to their ongoing preparations for a 30-minute musical variety show for ValCom Studios, The Roys have been tapped to host 7 episodes of Bluegrass Mountains for CJM Productions. The new show will debut tomorrow (5/1) in New Zealand on Country 99 TV, and will begin airing in June on CMC Australia, and on Sky TV [...]
Brother/sister duet partners The Roys have just released a music video for Trailblazer, one of the songs from their 2011 Rural Rhythm release, Lonesome Whistle. The track is also being released as a single to radio. It showcases Elaine Roy as lead vocalist, and features she and brother Lee's road band: Zac Hardin on bass, [...]
Recent news of a release by Janie Fricke, titled Country Side of Bluegrass, intrigued me, as one of those who remember her star status as one of the premier female vocalists in country music in the early 1980's. Getting started doing vocals for national advertising jingle (Red Lobster, United Airlines, Coca-Cola), and providing background vocals for numerous country stars (Loretta [...]
The Roys have just learned that they will spend part of January 2012 touring in Australia. They will be performing at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, a major event in New South Wales that draws 80,000-100,000 each year over the course of 10 days. A number of other dates are booked for January, with more likely [...]
It’s hard to tell if attendees to the Wednesday morning showcase were there for the talent or for the free brunch. Whatever drew them, the crowd left fully satisfied. After all, what’s better than free food and bluegrass? Even while the buffet line was still crawling along, Rural Rhythm stars The Roys took the stage with the [...]
A video for the debut single from The Roys new album has been released online. It's for the song, Coal Minin' Man, the opening track of their Lonesome Whistle album on Rural Rhythm. Lee and Elaine Roy headed for Kentucky's coal country for the shoot, and Elaine tells us that it helped capture the spirit [...]
Wow... lots of new releases to note for March 22. What is it about the end of March? Rural Rhythm Records has three projects that hit today. I'm sure that we will have more to say about each of them, but here's a quick heads up. First up is Kickin' Up Dust from Grasstowne. This [...]
