Donna Hughes is an Americana

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bluegrass singer,

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, guitarist, pianist, and animal rights activist. She has released several albums on

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 Al ...

and one of her songs has been recorded by

Alison Krauss Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of 8 and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with ...

. Her second album, ''Gaining Wisdom'' (2007), was produced by bluegrass guitar legend

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 a ...

and third album (2010) by the legendary banjo performer J.D. Crowe. In August 2014, Donna Hughes produced and released two albums on her own label Running Dog Records: ''From The Heart'', where she wrote 19 of the 21 tracks and a piano album. ''Fly'', writing 8 of the 12 tracks.

External links

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by Staff, '' WNC Times'', February 19, 2015.
"Randolph singer/songwriter Donna Hughes targets dogs on chains (+video)"
by Chip Womick, '' The Courier Tribune'', February 7, 2015.
"Hughes to release piano, bluegrass albums"
by Staff, ''

The Courier-Tribune The Courier-Tribune is the daily newspaper of Asheboro, North Carolina and the surrounding county of Randolph County, North Carolina. It has been published daily, except Saturday, since 1978. History The ''Courier-Tribune'' is one of the 10 olde ...

'', May 2, 2014
"Bluegrass singer Donna Hughes coming to Mountaineer Opry House"
by Derek Halsey, ''

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