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Audie Blaylock
Audie Blaylock (born 1962) is an American singer, guitarist, mandolinist, and composer in the bluegrass tradition. Biography Early years Blaylock was born in El Paso, Texas, but was raised in Lansing, Michigan. Growing up in a family where both parents played music, he learned guitar at age 8. He grew up playing guitar and mandolin in local bands. Support for Other Artists In 1982, at age 19, Blaylock joined Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, and spent nine years with them playing mandolin. In 1990, Blaylock worked with Red Allen until his death in 1993. Starting in 1993, Blaylock played both mandolin and guitar with the Lynn Morris Band. From 1997 until 2000, Blaylock played with Harley Allen (Red Allen's son). Allen was an accomplished country music songwriter (for Garth Brooks, John Michael Montgomery, and others), and recorded for Mercury Records. From 1999 until 2003, Blaylock worked with Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, playing guitar and singing harmonies. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the county seat, seat of El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of United States cities by population, 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the List of cities in Texas by population, sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix, Arizona. The city is also List of U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations, the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the U.S., with 81% of its population being Hispanic. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth County, Texas, Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 868,859 in 2020. El Paso has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in America. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciuda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick McAvinue
Patrick Coleman McAvinue is an American fiddler, combining in his music aspects of bluegrass, swing, and Celtic music. He is also a private music educator. He is the IBMA's 2017 Fiddle Player of the Year. Biography Early years McAvinue is a native of Hereford, Maryland. He began playing fiddle at age 7 and was trained as a classical violinist. At age 10, Peabody graduate Amy Hopkins taught him fiddle tunes from all over the world. Then he received training from multi-instrumentalist Troy Engle. At age 12, McAvinue formed The Salem Bottom Boys, his first band. In 2003, 2004, and 2005, McAvinue won the Delaware State Fiddle Championship. In 2004, he joined the band Smooth Kentucky after hearing the band on a local radio show. The band also included Ed Hough (guitar, vocals), B.J. Lazarus (mandolin), Cris Jacobs (guitar, vocals), Dave Frieman (bass), Jordan Tice (guitar, vocals) and Dave Giegerich (resonator guitar). In 2011, McAvinue received a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Baker
Jessie Baker (born February 7, 1991) is an American musician known for bluegrass banjo. He describes his playing as "Scruggs-style and Don Reno." He currently resides in Carmel, Indiana. Jessie started banjo lessons in 2002, and went on to lead his family's band, "The Baker Boys." In January, 2007, Jessie joined the Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show. In August 2008 Baker joined the then current IBMA instrumental group of the year "Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper". During Jessie's span with this group he helped the band win three more IBMA instrumental group of the year awards before departing in January 2011 to seek other employment. He played on the band's album, 'Fired Up!' which included original song, UnTrue Blues. He has also worked stints with Marty Raybon and Full Circle, David Peterson, and Dove Award-winning Cody Shuler and Pine Mountain Railroad. He was also featured as a part of the Johnson Mountain Boys Reunion Project. In June, 2009, Jessie released his debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinecastle Records
Pinecastle Records is a record label based in Piedmont, South Carolina specializing in supporting and developing bluegrass music artists. History Tom Riggs started the Pinecastle Records in 1989 as an outlet for bluegrass pioneer Bill Harrell who wanted an outlet for his son Mitch to release a CD. The label was originally based in Orlando, Florida but moved to Columbus, North Carolina in 2005. In 1993, Pinecastle purchased Virginia-based Webco Records. They reissued recordings of some Webco artists, such as Larry Stephenson and The Reno Brothers. In 2002, Riggs received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Pinecastle folded in February 2010 due to Rigg's health issues. Lonnie Lassiter took ownership and reopened Pinecastle on August 1, 2010, naming Ethan Burkhardt as Vice President of Operations and Matt Hood as Vice President of Public Relations. In 2012, Pinecastle signed with Syntax Creative. In 2015, Pinecastle awarded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Emerson (musician)
William Hundley Emerson, Jr. (January 22, 1938 – August 21, 2021) was an American five-string banjo player known for being one of the founding members of the original The Country Gentlemen and Emerson & Waldron and considered one of the finest bluegrass banjo players in music history. The bluegrass musician named Bill Emerson written about on this biography page is often confused with another country musician named Bill Emerson (known as "Wild Bill Emerson") who was also born in 1938. As a result, bluegrass musician Bill Emerson is frequently incorrectly attributed to songs on various music databases (such as Discogs, AllMusic and Wiki) written by Wild Bill Emerson and/or his wife, Martha Jo "Jody" Emerson (who's often miscredited as "Jodie"). Wild Bill and Jody have written for many country artists such as George Jones, Hank Williams, Jr. and John Anderson. Career Bill Emerson joined Buzz Busby and the Bayou Boys in the 1950s. In 1957, when Busby was injured in a car accid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webco Records
Webco Records was a record label based in Vienna, Virginia that specialized in bluegrass and old-time music. History Webco Records was founded in 1980 by its namesake Mr. Wayne E. Busbice. Between 1985 and 1988, Bill Emerson was A&R director. In 1989 Bill Emerson and his son John acquired the Webco label, and from 1990 until 1994 John Emerson operated the label as Webco Records of Virginia. In 1994 Tom Riggs acquired the Webco label in 1994 to be part of Pinecastle Records. This deal included previous released and unreleased recordings, and recording contracts. Pinecastle has since launched the Webco Classics imprint, on which select recordings previously released on the Webco label were compiled and reissued. Roster * Al Jones and Frank Necessary * Bill Emerson * Bill Harrell and The Virginians * Bill Rouse and The Uptown Grass Band * Bob Purkey and The Blueridge Travellers * Bobby Atkins and the Countrymen * Brooke Johns * Busby Brothers * Buzz Busby * Carl Nelson * Chris Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment One Music
MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch", formerly known as Koch Records and eOne Music) is a New York City-based independent record label and music management company. It was formed in 2009 from the music assets of Koch Entertainment, which had been acquired by the present-day Entertainment One (eOne) in 2005. In April 2021, after the acquisition of eOne by Hasbro, the company announced that it would sell eOne Music to The Blackstone Group. It owns the libraries of Artemis Records, Dualtone Records, and Last Gang Records. History eOne as a whole has its origins in the music distributor Records on Wheels, which was acquired by the Canadian retail chain CD Plus in 2001 to expand its wholesale business. Darren Throop joined the company after CD Plus acquired his record store chain Urban Sound Exchange. The combined company later became known as ROW Entertainment, with Throop as president and CEO. In June 2005, ROW acquired the American independent music distributor and home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Thorogood, Tony Rice, and Béla Fleck, in addition to re-releases of seminal albums by artists such as the Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie. "Championing and preserving the music of artists whose music falls outside of the mainstream," Rounder releases have won 54 Grammy Awards representing diverse genres, from bluegrass, folk, reggae, and gospel to pop, rock, Americana, polka and world music. Acquired by Concord in 2010, Rounder is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Beginnings Rounder was founded by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton Levy. Nowlin and Irwin first met in 1962 as incoming freshman at Tufts University in the Boston suburb of Medford, Massachusetts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Isaacs
Sonya Melissa Isaacs (born July 22, 1974) is an American country, bluegrass gospel and Christian music singer. Isaacs grew up near Morrow, Ohio, and graduated from Little Miami High School in 1992. Her maternal grandparents are Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors and were liberated from a concentration camp in Germany in 1945. She has released one album on Lyric Street Records, and has charted five singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts. Three were included on her self-titled debut album, released in 2000. A fourth was a Christmas single included on the label's multi-artist collection ''No Wrapping Required: A Christmas Album''. Her highest-charting single, "No Regrets Yet", peaked at number 36 on the country charts but did not appear on an album. She parted ways with Lyric Street in 2004. Isaacs, along with several of her family members, also comprise a gospel music band called The Isaacs. Sonya recorded the song "The Battlefield" for the soundtrack to the 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patuxent Music
Patuxent Music is an independent record label in Rockville, Maryland. History Bluegrass musician Tom Mindte started recording music by other artists in 1984 with a reel to reel recorder in his father's air conditioning shop. In 1990 Tom opened his own studio, and started the Patuxent label in 1996. Notable projects Patuxent Music's first project was recording fiddler Joe Meadows in 1995. When the original record label couldn't release the recording, Patuxent released it as their first album in 1996. ''The Patuxent Banjo Project'' compiled music from 40 past and current banjo players from the Baltimore-Washington corridor. It was produced by musicians Mark Delaney and Randy Barrett. The backing band included David McLaughlin (bluegrass), David McLaughlin (mandolin), Danny Knicely (guitar), Tad Marks (fiddle), and Mark Schatz (bass). Among the banjo players recorded were Bill Emerson (musician), Bill Emerson, Eddie Adcock, Tom Adams (bluegrass musician), Tom Adams, and Roni Ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Jackson
Carl Eugene Jackson (born September 18, 1953) is an American country and bluegrass musician. Jackson's first Grammy was awarded in 1992 for his duet album with John Starling titled "Spring Training." In 2003 Jackson produced the Grammy Award-winning CD titled '' Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers'' – a tribute to Ira and Charlie Louvin. He also recorded one of the songs on the CD, a collection of duets featuring such artists as James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, and others. Biography Jackson's musical career began in childhood. At the age of 14 he was invited to play banjo for Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys, one of the most respected bluegrass bands at that time. After five years with Jim and Jesse, Jackson tested the musical waters elsewhere before landing a job with Glen Campbell. Jackson remained in Campbell's band for 12 years. Jackson continued to work in Nashville as a songwriter and musician. Between 1984 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del McCoury
Delano Floyd McCoury (born February 1, 1939) is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively. In June 2010, he received a National Heritage Fellowship lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2011 he was elected into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Career McCoury has had a long career in bluegrass. Although originally hired as banjo player, he sang lead vocals and played rhythm guitar for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1963, with whom he first appeared on the ''Grand Ole Opry''. McCoury briefly appeared with the Golden State Boys in 1964 before taking a series of day jobs in construction and logging, while continuing to work as an amateur musician in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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