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Bluegrass singer, songwriter, guitarist and band leader Wayne Taylor is now at home and recovering nicely after being hospitalized last week with an acute intestinal condition. Taylor heads his own group, Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa, and is well-remembered for his many years fronting the US Navy's bluegrass band, Country Current. Appaloosa banjo man Mark Delaney [...]
Monday was Frank Solivan’s 34th birthday, but the crowd who spent it with him in a Rockville, MD, church hall got the present – two and a half hours of pickin’ and singin’ by an all-star lineup usually only seen in Nashville. The Institute of Musical Traditions show was a homecoming of sorts for Solivan, [...]
Wayne Taylor has announced that Mark Delaney will be the new banjo player in Appaloosa, starting in February 2011. He takes the spot recently vacated by Lee Marcus, who has left the group to attend college. Mark has worked recently with Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac, until Darren disbanded the group a few [...]
This post is a contribution from Tom Bibey, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. You can see his profile here. In dark suits and pinstripes, white shirts, black shoes and neat ties, Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa have the stage persona of a band serious in their intent to entertain and also appreciative of the opportunity. [...]
Out In The Middle Of Nowhere is the title of the new CD from Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa, released today by Raincoe Music. It's another set of original songs from Taylor, who first made his mark in bluegrass with the US Navy Band, Country Current, with Bill Emerson. Joining Wayne in Appaloosa are Emory Lester [...]
The following is an account from Wayne Taylor, describing his tour this past September in England and Scotland with his group, Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa. On September 21, 1995 in Rosine, Kentucky, the US Navy's Country Current bluegrass group performed for the birthday celebration and plaque dedication ceremony for Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass [...]
The debut, self-titled CD from Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa is now available. Taylor is familiar to bluegrass lovers from his 24 years with Country Current, the US Navy Bluegrass Band, headquartered in Washington, DC. Many of those years of service were pulled alongside banjo legend Bill Emerson, who led the band while he was in [...]
We heard yesterday from Kenny Ray Horton, guitarist and lead vocalist with the US Navy's Country Current, who is about to release a new solo project. A Canary's Song, which features 7 songs of Horton's amidst the 11 tracks, will hit on March 11. In addition to Kenny on guitar and vocals, the CD is [...]
We've posted a number of times about US Navy Band, Country Current, which regularly includes professional bluegrass musicians. The band has maintained a bluegrass unit since 1973 when Bill Emerson joined on banjo. Bill led the band until his retirement in 1993, at which point that leadership fell to Wayne Taylor who held the spot [...]
Two 24/7 online bluegrass channels offer up live interviews today (4/4) that may be of interest. Wayne Taylor will be stopping by for a chat with Katy Daley at 9:00 a.m. on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. Taylor spent 20 years performing in the US Navy Band Country Current, and has been a fixture in the DC [...]
