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Rickie Simpkins
Rickie Simpkins is an American fiddler and mandolinist in the bluegrass tradition. He is best known for his solo albums and his work with the Lonesome River Band and the Seldom Scene. Biography Early years Simpkins was raised in Christiansburg, Virginia, southwest of Roanoke. He learned fiddle at age six and played in a show with Flatt and Scruggs at age nine. Simpkins also learned banjo and guitar at a young age. Simpkins and his brother Ronnie played in a family group, and eventually joined the bluegrass band Upland Express, releasing an album on Leather Records in 1979. Other members included his brother Ronnie (bass), Ken Farmer (guitar), Barry Collins (banjo), and Tonya Gibson (mandolin). McPeak Brothers When he graduated from high school, Simpkins joined the McPeak Brothers as a full-time member, and continued with them into the early 1980s. Members were Simpkins (mandolin, fiddle), Mike McPeak (guitar), Dewey McPeak (banjo), Jim Buchanan (fiddle), Phil Gazell (harmonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery County, Virginia
Montgomery County is a county located in the Valley and Ridge area of the U.S. state of Virginia. As population in the area increased, Montgomery County was formed in 1777 from Fincastle County, which in turn had been taken from Botetourt County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 99,721. Its county seat is Christiansburg, and Blacksburg is the largest town. Montgomery County is part of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg metropolitan area. It is dominated economically by the presence of Virginia Tech, Virginia's third largest public university, which is the county's largest employer. Board of Supervisors The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors sets the annual budget and tax rates, enacts legislation governing the county and its citizens, sets policies and oversees their implementation. There are seven supervisors; one is elected from each of the seven geographic districts. Terms are four years; three or four seats are up for re-election each odd year. History Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Reid
Lou Reid Pyrtle (born September 13, 1954 in Union Grove, North Carolina) is an American bluegrass singer, band leader, and multi-instrumentalist. Biography Early life Reid grew up on a tobacco farm in Moore Springs, North Carolina. His father also worked as a construction supervisor. When Reid was a young boy his father took him to see Flatt & Scruggs, and Reid has loved bluegrass music ever since. In his early teens, Reid played acoustic bass with the band Bluegrass Buddies, then joined the bluegrass group Southbound, who recorded one album for Rebel Records. He played banjo with them from 1973 to 1979. Other members included Jimmy Haley (guitar), Dennis Severt (mandolin), and Doug Campbell (bass). Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver In 1979, Lou joined Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, playing bass guitar. Quicksilver consisted of Lawson (mandolin), Reid (bass), Terry Baucom (banjo), and Jimmy Haley (guitar). Reid recorded three albums with Quicksilver. Ricky Skaggs Band Reid was wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unit Of Measure (album)
''Unit of Measure'' is an album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 2000. It is credited to The Tony Rice Unit. Allmusic entry for ''Unit of Measure''Retrieved September 2009. Track listing # "Manzanita" (Tony Rice) – 3:53 # "House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) – 5:26 # " Shenandoah" (Traditional) – 4:40 # "Gold Rush" (Bill Monroe) – 3:02 # " Jerusalem Ridge" (Monroe) – 6:38 # "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 3:44 # " Beaumont Rag" (Traditional) – 3:37 # "Swing '42" (Django Reinhardt) – 1:56 # "An Olde Irish Aire (Danny Boy)" (Traditional) – 2:07 # " Sally Goodin'" (Traditional) – 8:31 Personnel *Tony Rice – guitar *Wyatt Rice – guitar *Jimmy Gaudreau Jimmy Gaudreau is a singer and mandolinist playing traditional and progressive bluegrass music. He is best known for his solo albums, and his work with The Country Gentlemen, Tony Rice, and J. D. Crowe. Biography Early life In high school ... [...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] |
Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot
''Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot'' is a compilation album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 1996. It contains tracks written by Gordon Lightfoot and previously recorded by Rice, plus a previously unreleased track, "Whispers of the North". Track listing All songs by Gordon Lightfoot # "Go My Way" – 2:48 # "Home from the Forest" – 4:17 # "Fine as Fine Can Be" – 3:24 # "Let It Ride" – 2:59 # "I'm Not Sayin'" – 2:15 # "Bitter Green" – 2:43 # "You Are What I Am" – 2:22 # "Shadows" – 3:43 # "Walls" – 1:59 # "Whispers of the North" – 4:17 # "Ten Degrees (Getting Colder)" – 2:18 # "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" – 4:59 # "Early Morning Rain" – 3:04 # "Whisper My Name" – 3:19 # "Sixteen Miles" – 2:45 # "Cold on the Shoulder" – 2:34 # "Song for a Winter's Night" – 3:09 Personnel *Tony Rice – guitar, vocals *Sam Bush – mandolin, violin, background vocals * Norman Blake – guitar, mandolin, vocals *Cole Burgess – saxophone *Kathy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Rice
David Anthony Rice (June 8, 1951 – December 25, 2020), known professionally as Tony Rice, was an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He was an influential acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rice's music spans the range of acoustic from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New Acoustic music to songwriter-oriented folk. Over the course of his career, he played alongside J. D. Crowe and the New South, David Grisman (during the formation of "Dawg Music") and Jerry Garcia, led his own Tony Rice Unit, collaborated with Norman Blake, recorded with his brothers Wyatt, Ron, and Larry, and co-founded the Bluegrass Album Band. He recorded with drums, piano, soprano sax, as well as with traditional bluegrass instrumentation. Early years Rice was born in Danville, Virginia but grew up in Los Angeles, California, where his father, Herb Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel Records
Rebel Records is an independent American record label based in Charlottesville, Virginia that specializes in bluegrass and old time music. The label was founded in Mount Rainier, Maryland in 1959 by Dick Freeland, Bill Carroll and Sonny Compton. In 1980, Freeland sold the label to David Freeman, the founder of County Records. Rebel has 140 titles in print from more than 35 different artists and groups. In 2008, the label released 8 new titles, including ones from Ralph Stanley and Larry Sparks. Notable artists * Bill Emerson * Bill Grant and Delia Bell * Bill Harrell * Blue Highway * Butch Baldassari * Charlie Sizemore * Chris Jones * Cliff Waldron * Cody Kilby * Dave Evans * David Davis * David Parmley * Del McCoury * Don Rigsby * Don Stover * Forbes Family * Front Porch String Band * IIIrd Tyme Out * J. D. Crowe * Jimmy Gaudreau * Joe Greene * Joe Mullins * John Starling * Junior Sisk * Karl Shiflett * Keith Whitley * Kenny Smith * King Wilkie * Larry Rice * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Records
County Records was a Virginia-based independent American record label founded by David Freeman in 1963. The label specialised in old-time and traditional bluegrass music. History Old-time music collector David Freeman started the County Records label in 1963 to focus on music from the rural Southeastern United States. He told an interviewer that he selected the name " County" because it evoked the rural, regional and local aspects of old-time music. Living in New York, Freeman avidly collected recordings from Southern musicians including old-time, bluegrass, country and blues artists. His new label's first release was a reissue of old-time music drawn from his personal collection of 78 rpm recordings from the 1920s and 1930s by Charlie Poole, the Leake County Revelers, Crockett's Mountaineers and similar string bands. ''A Collection of Mountain Fiddle Music'' (County 501) was released in 1964, and several similar reissues followed within the 500 series. Around the same t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Kohrs
Randy Kohrs is an American multi-instrumentalist best known for his resonator guitar prowess, but he plays 13 instruments. He is also a Grammy-winning producer and recording engineer. Biography Early years Kohrs was raised on a farm near the rural town of New Virginia, Iowa. He learned acoustic guitar from his uncle at age 8, quickly followed by resonator guitar. In his teens, Kohrs played with the Missouri bluegrass band Possum Trot. He played with them for 10 years, while also fronting a local country band. He continued to learn other instruments, including electric guitar, drums, mandolin, banjo, pedal steel, and bass. Early career In 1995, Kohrs moved to Nashville, where Hank Williams III hired him to play in his band, then he toured in support of Tom T. Hall. In 1998, he joined David Parmley, Scott Vestal and Continental Divide, singing tenor playing dobro. He contributed his skills to the album ''Feel Good Day''. Then Kohrs toured with Holly Dunn for two years, and joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Bowman
Ronnie Bowman (born July 9, 1961) is an American singer and composer of bluegrass music. Besides his solo albums, he is known for his work with the Lonesome River Band. Biography Early years A native of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Bowman sang gospel music from age three until his late-teens. He sang in his family band with his four sisters, playing churches in North Carolina and Virginia. Bowman joined bluegrass band The Lost and Found in 1988 and performed with them for two years. Lonesome River Band From 1990 until 2001, Bowman then was vocalist and bass player in the Lonesome River Band, with bandmates Sammy Shelor, Dan Tyminski, and Tim Austin. Their 1991 album ''Carrying the Tradition'' was named the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) 1991 Album of the Year. Solo career Cold Virginia Night, released in 1994, featured appearances by Alison Krauss, Del McCoury, and Tony Rice. Bowman released ''Starting Over'' in 2003, with Don Cook producing several songs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Tyminski
Daniel John Tyminski (born June 20, 1967) is an American bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of Alison Krauss's band Union Station, and has released three solo albums, ''Carry Me Across the Mountain'' (2000), on the Doobie Shea Records label, ''Wheels'' (2008), on the Rounder Records label, and ''Southern Gothic'' (2017). on the Mercury Records label. He is known for his updated version of the song "Man of Constant Sorrow," which was featured in the movie '' O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' and won the 2001 CMA award for best single as well as a Grammy Award for best Country Collaboration with Vocals (along with Harley Allen and Pat Enright, filling out the vocals for the movie's Soggy Bottom Boys). In total, he has won 14 Grammy Awards for solo and collaborative projects. In 2013, he was the vocalist on Avicii's international hit "Hey Brother" from the album '' True''. Tyminski received the Bluegrass Star Award from the Bluegrass Heritage Found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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