Audie Blaylock & Redline

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In 2005 and 2006, Audie Blaylock and Redline were nominated for the IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year award. Since Blaylock began his career at age 19 when he joined Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys, he has received a multitude of other honors and awards including: the IBMA Entertainer of the Year award as a member of Rhonda Vincent & The Rage; 2007 IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year Award with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper featuring Audie Blaylock; a Grammy® nomination for Best Bluegrass Album and an IBMA nomination for Recorded Event of the Year for "A Tribute to Jimmy Martin: The King of Bluegrass;" and so many more.

First solo album, “YOUNG MAN, OLD SOUL,” where he co-wrote 10 out of the 12 tracks. Along with Stapleton, Brandon recruited many of his other talentedsongwriting friends including, Tammy Rogers (The Steeldrivers); Jerry Salley, Kevin Denney, and Charley Stefl.  Other musicians on the album include: Jamie Johnson (The Grascals); and fellow Lonesome River Band members, Andy Ball and Mike Anglin.

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"I Can Go Back Anytime is a 'homerun' for Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain!   Carrie continues to impress me with her talents!" ~CINDY BAUCOM, KNEE-DEEP IN BLUEGRASS

"Holy smoke!  Hassler's latest-no-holds-bared release demonstrates remarkable talent. From her blistering arrangement of "One Way Track To Nowhere" to an affective "Turn The Page," Hassler is at the top of her game." - Bob Mitchell, Radio Bluegrass International 

 

“Carrie Hassler brings a new energy and freshness to Bluegrass that I haven’t heard in years” - (Kyle Cantrell – XM Radio)

“This is a top-notch bluegrass band, an Alison Krauss on high-octane gas. This is a kick-tail bluegrass band with incredible instrumentalists on fiddle, banjo, Dobro and mandolin. All led by Hassler's sweet and strong classic country voice." - Mac McDonald, Monterey Herald

“PICKIN’, PRAISIN’ & SINGIN’ (Hymns from the Mountain)“ is the perfect vehicle to showcase PMR’s beautiful blended harmonies and tight pickin’ which has brought them much national attention over the past 10 years.

GOLD HEART, individually and as a whole, has received a multitude of awards and recognitions in a short amount of time and credit their Mother with teaching them their vocal harmony that has drawn so much attention to this young band.  Members include the three Gold sisters, Analise(mandolin, vocals); Jocelyn (guitar, vocals); Shelby (fiddle and vocals); along with their Dad,Trent Gold (bass); plus Owen Piatt (banjo). 

The album, “MY OWN SET OF RULES" was produced by Lou Reid, and also includes band members, Christy Reid, Shannon Slaughter, Trevor Watson, with special guest Ron Stewart on fiddle.  “I believe, as a whole, that this project encompasses more of my personal musical taste than any recording I have put out to date. The songs bring in all the elements of bluegrass that I love; the contemporary, traditional and gospel.  We played with each song, working on arrangements and specifically the harmonies. We all shared different ideas - getting each song where it needed to be,” said Lou.

 

AND THE WHEELS TURN is the perfect vehicle for Melonie’s pure and powerful voice to shine as she moves through a variety of hand picked songs that showcase her soulful down home vocal style including the up-tempo, fun and liberating first single, “I Call It Gone.” Other album highlights include the passionate and reflective “Cactus In A Coffee Can”, “I’ve Seen Enough of What’s Behind Me” written by Ronnie Bowman and Tammy Rogers King, and “Mary Magdalene (Why You Cryin’), co-written by Ronnie Bowman, Melonie Cannon, Marla Cannon-Goodman and Buddy Cannon.

"Michael is an amazing writer and we all enjoyed making acoustic versions of these incredible hit songs. I congratulate him on the new album.” Rob Ickes, (Award Wining Bluegrass Musician)

“This album is every bit as magical to me as the moment I first dropped the needle on my brand new vinyl copy of Blue Sky - Night Thunder in 1975 and heard Wildfire , Carolina in the Pines and Wild Bird for the first time. If you liked Michael Martin Murphy then, you will love him now and you will love this album.”- Terry Herd, Into The Blue (Bluegrass Radio Network)

RANDY KOHRS wrote, or co-wrote, nine of the twelve tracks on "OLD PHOTOGRAPH", including the single, Rockwell's Gold. An incredibly talented cast of musicians and singers assembled for this long-awaited album. Featuring Scott Vestal, Tim Crouch, Jim Hurst, Stephen Mougin, and Rhonda Vincent (as a duet partner), as well as several members of his touring band, this album offers listeners a wide range of acoustic stylings.

His previous album, I'm Torn, released in 2004, spent seven months on The Bluegrass Unlimited National Bluegrass Survey Top 15 Albums chart. Two singles also charted in Bluegrass Unlimited, including the title track, which spent eight consecutive months in the Top 30 and reached the #5 spot.

“Tommy Webb is a wonderfully talented and exciting new artist that I've become a big fan of. It's bands like his that keeps the heart of Bluegrass music beating strongly. Tommy's new song A Hard Row to Hoe - reaches the heart of the everyday man/woman's and their plight - working honestly for a living, enduring through hard times, just trying to survive, I think this tune is and will be, a definite hit among more than just Bluegrass fans, as it is already with me. Thanks Tommy and boys - for hittin' the nail on the head with this tune at this most difficult time in our beloved America and also the World."

Gracie Muldoon, www.worldwidebluegrass.com

"When you fuse together bluegrass and a more traditional brand of country music you instantly have the ability to cross genres and create a stir amongst the truest and most devoted music fans. The Crowe Brothers, Josh and Wayne, have thrown their hat into the mix. With their own incredible harmonies...The Crowe Brothers stick to their roots and wear their influences proudly on their sleeves and deliver a much more traditional driven album sure to please fans of the Grand Ole Opry sound," said Today's Country Magazine.

Joining Josh and Wayne Crowe on their album is an all star group of bluegrass musicians who have won Grammy, IBMA or SPEGMA awards including: Randy Kohrs, Ronnie McCoury, Steve Sutton and other bluegrass veterans including Buck White, Darren Nicholson and album co-producer/ musicianSteve Thomas of
J. D. Crowe & The New South.

Created over a year ago, The Mashville Brigade line-up reads like a who’s who in the world of today’s bluegrass music. Members of the band have either been nominated for, or won a plethora of IBMA, Grammy, Indie, SPBGMA, and Dove Awards. All the members, in addition to working with the Brigade, are full-time players in well-known national touring bluegrass bands, songwriters, and studio session players and have achieved lofty heights of success. This star-studded line-up includes: Aaron McDaris (The Grascals) who plays banjo and sings harmony; Darrell Webb(Rhonda Vincent & The Rage) on guitar and lead vocals; Ashby Frank (Special Consensus) lead vocals and mandolin; Jim VanCleve (Mountain Heart) on fiddle; and Randy Barnes (NewFound Road) on bass.

“Tim gets up there every night and rocks with us,” Chesney says, “but its after the shows, walking back to the bus that you can hear his voice in the halls, singing what he truly loves. You hear enough of someone singing something that really matters to them, well, you wanna help them realize their music, too. That’s how it felt with Tim and the bluegrass stuff… It was letting the world get to hear something we’ve been lucky enough to get to hear almost every night for the last five or six years.”