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Bluegrass Underground, a new monthly live bluegrass music show, is set to debut on WSM on August 29. It will air on WSM and in syndication on the last Friday night of each month at midnight (central time - technically, Saturday morning). Each show will be recorded before a live audience more than 300 feet [...]
Online video of the SteelDrivers' performance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien this past Friday (7/18) can now be viewed on the NBC website. To see their segment, click the July 18 show link, and then you'll see a thumbnail image of the band in the video timeline. NBC maintains these archives for about two [...]
The SteelDrivers will be tonight's (7/18) musical guests on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which airs at 12:30 a.m. on NBC television. Since their debut release earlier this year, the band has gathered one stellar review after another for their blending of blues-inflected original songs with bluegrass instrumentation. The SteelDrivers consist of Mike Henderson on [...]
There will be some bluegrass offered during this week's big CMA Music Festival and Fan Fair in Nashville. Though the event officially begins on Thursday (6/5) and runs through Sunday (6/8), there is a kickoff concert tonight (6/4) at 10:00 p.m. hosted by Marty Stuart which will feature sets by The SteelDrivers and Old Crow [...]
This weekend's Grand Ole Opry broadcasts once again has something for bluegrass fans - both on radio and TV. The Friday Opry (5/2) will include a show from Mountain Heart, in the 10:00-10:30 p.m. segment, and the guys will be back on Saturday evening as well. Joining them on Saturday will be The SteelDrivers, who [...]
The Steeldrivers paid a visit this week to Michael Jonathon's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. The show airs live on Monday evenings from Lexington, KY in both audio and video formats, and the shows are available for online viewing after the fact. Their performance can now be seen on the Woodsongs web site, where they [...]
The SteelDrivers is a recently formed band comprising personnel who have a long association with mainstream country music in Nashville - Chris Stapleton (guitar and lead vocals) with Tammy Rogers (fiddle and harmony vocals), Mike Henderson (mandolin), Mike Fleming (bass and harmony vocals) and Richard Bailey (banjo). Bluegrass seems to be the common factor for [...]
This morning, The Wall Street Journal is running an article titled Bluegrass With a Difference. The piece is about Nashville based band, the SteelDrivers. The article trumpets bluegrass music as the music to listen to if you want something real in your ears. I couldn't agree more heartily. The writer, Jim Fusilli, holds up The [...]
The SteelDrivers can be seen and heard on this week's edition of Unplugged at Studio 330 at CMT.com. They perform music from their recent self-titled debut release, and talk about the band, the material they write, and what sets them apart from other new bands on the bluegrass scene. Members include Richard Bailey on banjo, [...]
Mixing bluegrass and blues influences in their music - rhythm'n'bluegrass, as they like to call it - is the signtaure sound of The Steeldrivers, whose debut CD is due on Rounder early in 2008. Their self-titled project features all-original music written within the band, all of them veterans of the music business who now find [...]
