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Patton Wages, banjo player with Volume Five, is producing a tablature book with all the solos and selected backup from their Drifter and Voices albums. The transcriptions were created by Russell Sawler, who has done tabs for numerous JD Crowe projects, plus recent books for Jason Davis, Greg Cahill, Ron Stewart, and Kristin Scott Benson. [...]
Jacob Burleson has been announced as the new mandolinist with Volume Five. He will join the group effective January 28 when they perform at Everett’s Music Barn in Suwanee, GA. Jacob has been around bluegrass music all his life, growing up in a musical family. His father is Jason Burleson, founding member and banjo player [...]
During the World Of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh a few weeks back, Volume Five hooked up with North Carolina filmmaker and videographer Corey Smith to create a new video introduction to the band. Of course, if you follow bluegrass closely, you need no introduction to this talented bunch, especially if you frequent festivals in the [...]
Here is the final gallery of Frank Baker's photos from the August 2016 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. We hope to get some more from him next week at this weekend's Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival.
Over the past few years Volume Five has been quietly releasing some of the most consistently entertaining contemporary bluegrass you can find. I say quietly because they are rarely mentioned as among the top tier acts in our business, and they certainly deserve to be in that discussion. The secret to their success has been the appealing voice of fiddler [...]
Laura Tate Photography was on hand for the 2016 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver bluegrass festival over the weekend, and shared this gallery of images from Denton Farm Park. Thanks Laura!
Mountain Fever Records has released an advance single, I Am A Drifter, the quasi-title track from their next album by Volume Five, Drifter. The highly engaging song is a contribution from award-winning writer Donna Ulisse and Marc Rossi, and sung by Volume Five fiddler Glen Harrell, surely among the finest lead vocalists currently in bluegrass. Glen [...]
If it wasn't for Caleb Lindsey taking a chain saw to the face on Saturday, and coming through it with just a scar, we might be talking about Volume Five's Harry Clark as the world's luckiest mandolinist. Imagine returning to your car after an evening with friends, only to discover that it is gone, along with [...]
The Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards are scheduled for tonight (10/13) in Nashville at the Lipscomb University Allen Arena. The show is sold out, but is being recorded for broadcast this weekend on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Among the many awards to be distributed at tonight's show in a wide variety of Gospel genres are a [...]
Rhonda Vincent and the Rage are a Saturday staple at the Milan Bluegrass Festival. Rhonda always goes out of her way to accommodate all of her fans, but this past Saturday she went above and beyond. A young girl and her mother came to the front of the “meet and greet” line. This young girl (named [...]
