Album Review – The Malpass Brothers – “Lonely Street”

As a true country music fan, you’re used to dealing in close approximations when seeking out modern musical choices. With The Malpass Brothers though, this isn’t necessary.
As a true country music fan, you’re used to dealing in close approximations when seeking out modern musical choices. With The Malpass Brothers though, this isn’t necessary.
Ben Isaacs, Brennen Leigh, Conrad Fisher, Dan Mann, Dickey Lee, Doyle Lawson, Jeannie Seely, Lonely Street, Mark Capps, Merle Haggard, Review, Shawn Camp, Taylor Dunn, The Malpass Brothers
The lack of new, original music from Jamey Johnson is still a sore subject for many. But that doesn’t mean Jamey Johnson fans don’t have ample opportunities to hear his voice.
Bill Payne, Dave McMurray, Don Was, Doyle Lawson, Greg Leisz, Jamey Johnson, Jerry Garcia, Jimmie Fadden, Larry Campbell, Robert Hunter, The Grateful Dead, Tommy Emmanuel, Vern Gosdin
Melonie Cannon owes a special debut of gratitude to Vern Gosdin. She’s gives Vern credit for believing in her as a singer even before her own father did. Gosdin took Melonie under her wing when she was a teenager, and got her father to pay attention to her as a serious country vocalist.
Alison Krauss, Buddy Cannon, Cody Jinks, Doyle Lawson, Jamey Johnson, Jim Lauderdale, Melonie Cannon, Sidney Cox, Vern Gosdin, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson
With the re-formed Hurricane Ian bearing down on the Carolinas Thursday evening, forcing all of the festivities for the biggest gathering in bluegrass each year indoors, the International Bluegrass Music Association, or IBMA held their 33rd annual awards at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
Bela Fleck, Billy Strings, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Dan Tyminski, Del McCoury, Dolly Parton, Doyle Lawson, IBMA, IBMA Awards, Molly Tuttle, Rick Faris, Ronnie Bowman, Sierra Hull
It’s always exciting when one of your favorite country artists like Dwight Yoakam, Alan Jackson, or Sturgill Simpson decides to cut a bluegrass album. It’s pretty rare to have a bluegrass outfit decide to flip the script and make a country album. But that’s exactly what long-time bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent have decided to do.
Ashley Monroe, Dailey & Vincent, Darrin Vincent, Doyle Lawson, Grand Ole Opry, Jamie Dailey, Jimbeau Hinson, Jimmy Fortune, Karen Staley, Rhonda Vincent, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Earle, The Sally Mountain Show, Vince Gill
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The International Bluegrass Music Awards, or IBMA’s announced the nominees earlier this week, and it felt anything but perfunctory. In previous years you had the usual suspects up for all the major awards. It feels completely different here in 2022, and for good reason. Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, and more.
Bela Fleck, Billy Strings, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Doyle Lawson, IBMA Awards, Michael Cleveland, Molly Tuttle, Old Crow Medicine Show, Po' Ramblin' Boys, Sierra Hull
Keith Whitley. Ricky Skaggs. Tony Rice and Larry Rice. Doyle Lawson. Jerry Douglas for crying out loud. Phil Ledbetter. These are just some of the many names that studied under bluegrass legend and banjo God J.D. Crowe, and did service time in his transformative band The New South.
Doyle Lawson, J.D. Crowe, Jerry Douglas, Keith Whitley, Phil Ledbetter, Ricky Skaggs, THe New South, Tony Rice
From the hills and hollers of Kentucky as a strict traditionalist, to some of the most enterprising and innovative interpretations of the bluegrass form, from beside artists as far ranging as Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Garcia, Tony Rice was American string music incarnate.
Alison Brown, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Chris Hillman, Clarence White, David Grisman, Doyle Lawson, JD Crowe, Jerry Douglas, Jerry Garcia, Keith Whitley, Peter Rowan, Ricky Skaggs, Ry Cooder, The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, The Kentucky Colonels, THe New South, Tony Rice
The story goes that The Malpass Brothers were discovered by Merle Haggard after they played an opening gig for him in North Carolina. “Well they remind me a lot of myself and people that I knew when I was young,” says Merle. “They have their hearts into what we call ‘traditional’ country music. It’s valuable to me that we cultivate young talent for that kind of music.”
Doyle Lawson, Merle Haggard, The Malpass Brothers, The Secret Sisters
Nashville will always be the home of country music, but Bristol, TN/VA was where the big bang of country music occurred. In 1927, recording pioneer Ralph Peer from the Victor Talking Machine Company set up his equipment in the Taylor-Christian Hat Company in downtown Bristol and started recording acts that would become the very foundation of what we know as country music today.
Ashley Monroe, Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Bristol, Carlene Carter, Dolly Parton, Doyle Lawson, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited, Ralph Peer, Ralph Stanley, The Bristol Sessions, The Carter Family, The Church Sisters, The Stoneman Family, The Whistles & The Bells, Vince Gill