Blue Highway received Song of The Year for "Through the Window of a Train," while Rob Ickes receives his 10th consecutive win for Dobro Player of the Year.
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Oct 27, 08:37 AMRob Ickes receives 10th consecutive Dobro Player of the Year AwardBlue Highway received Song of The Year for "Through the Window of a Train," while Rob Ickes receives his 10th consecutive win for Dobro Player of the Year.
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Mar 12, 07:25 AMCritics Praise Blue Highway's 'Through the Window of a Train'TOUR DATES ALSO ANNOUNCED
Burlington, MA - Since being released February 12 on Rounder Records, Blue Highway's Through the Window of a Train has earned plenty of praise! Currently the album is #5 on Billboard's Top Bluegrass Albums Chart and #5 on Bluegrass Music Profile's Top 10 Bluegrass CDs. Upcoming tour dates are listed below, with more to be added soon.
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- Brian Mansfield, USA Today"It's a testament to its immense talents and friendship that after 14 years together and various side projects, Blue Highway keeps creating music that connects and entertains.
- Ken Tucker, Billboard"...Blue Highway manages to appear at once contemporary and rooted...Their music looks back, even as it looks forward."
- David Baxter, No Depression"...they demonstrate that you can make meaningful mountain music just about anywhere, as long as you put your heart into it."
- Country Weekly"...inspired picking and passionate vocals."
- Mario Tarradell, The Dallas Morning News"The singing on Blue Highway's Through the Window of a Train is every bit as exceptional as longtime fans have come to expect from the group...Newcomers will also find plenty to like on this CD, including the stellar musicianship that you'd expect from one of the most popular bands in bluegrass."
- Katherine Cole, Voice of America"The only thing disappointing about this album, is the fact there aren't more songs. With this quality of music you just wish it could go on without ever having to end. Thankfully that's what the repeat button is for."
- Jennifer Webb, About.com"Blue Highway have been dominating the bluegrass charts since they came on the scene in the late ‘90s, and Through the Window of a Train is another impressive addition to their canon."
- J. Poet, AllMusic.com"...among the most adventurous and experimental ensembles in bluegrass and acoustic music, and Blue Highway's eighth CD Through the Window of a Train may be its finest."
- Nashville City Paper"Not that Blue Highway hasn't been working on a higher plane all along, but on Through the Window of a Train the quintet outdoes itself."
- David McGee, Barnes and Noble.com____________________________________
Upcoming Tour Dates:
March 16 Mountain Stage Beckley, WV
March 29 Jefferson Center Roanoke, VAApril 5 Seeger Chapel at Milligan College Johnson City, TN
April 11 Great American Bluegrass Festival Dothan, AL
April 18 Ferguson Center for the Arts Newport News, VA
April 19 Southern Music Rising Festival Monticello, FL
April 24-25 Merlefest Wilkesboro, NC
April 26 Halifax Community College Weldon, NCMay 16 Spring Bluegrass Festival Gettysburg, PA
May 30 Graves Mountain Bluegrass Festival Syria, VA
May 31 George Washington High School Danville, VA###
For more information, please contact:
Jennifer Sacca at 617.218.4503, email jsacca@rounder.com">jsacca@rounder.com or
Sarah Leach at 617.218.4480, email sleach@rounder.com">sleach@rounder.com
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Feb 27, 12:24 PMRounder Records Rules The Top Of The Billboard Bluegrass Chart!Burlington, MA - Rounder Records is currently holding the top four slots on the Billboard bluegrass albums chart with Rhonda Vincent's Good Thing Going at #1, Blue Highway's Through The Window Of A Train at #2, and the self-titled albums from Dailey & Vincent and The SteelDrivers at #3 and #4 respectively. This is Rhonda Vincent's seventh week at #1, a position that she's held since the album's release on January 7. Blue Highway debuted at #2 last week, moving Dailey & Vincent to #3, while The SteelDrivers' release from January 15 has stayed within the top 10 over the past 6 weeks.
Good Thing Going is Rhonda Vincent's most personal album to date. With hope, resilience, and gratitude, Vincent presents a set of songs that range from timelessly straight-ahead bluegrass to effervescent swing and heartfelt ballads. The twelve tracks that make up Good Thing Going include five originals or co-writes, alongside a range of contemporary and classic cover tracks including a beautiful rendition of "The Water is Wide" with country superstar Keith Urban. The Boston Globe calls it a "...superb new effort...no messing up this ‘Good Thing.'"
Blue Highway's Through The Window Of A Train, the band's eighth album, was released on February 12 and features 12 songs, all written or co-written by Blue Highway's five accomplished songwriters whose songs have been recorded by bluegrass staples Ronnie Bowman, Mountain Heart, Ricky Skaggs, and others. Through The Window Of A Train showcases Blue Highway at their songwriting, instrumental, and vocal peak. With a nod to family, tradition, and travel on the album's title track, the account of a fading cowboy on "My Ropin' Days Are Done," the characterizations of wars past and current on "Homeless Man" and "Two Soldiers," and through the virtuosic picking on the instrumental "The North Cove," Blue Highway simultaneously deliver the past, present, and future of bluegrass.
Released January 29, the self-titled debut of new bluegrass duo Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent features a broad spectrum of traditional bluegrass, country, and gospel sounds, unified by the duo's breath-taking vocal strength and harmony as well as their virtuosic musicianship. While not related by blood, Dailey & Vincent invite favorable comparisons to the best in brother duo singing - the Stanley Brothers, the Osborne Brothers and Jim and Jesse. The power of Dailey & Vincent's duo singing is stunningly revealed in the David Rawlings/Gillian Welch gospel number "By the Mark," as well as the tender "My Savior Walks With Me Today," written by Dailey and former employer Doyle Lawson. Pure, rapid-fire bluegrass with fleet-fingered picking and high lonesome singing flows through the album, from the beginning notes of Al Wood's "Sweet Carrie," through Randall Hylton's "Cumberland River."
On their national debut album of all original material, The SteelDrivers' back-country high lonesome collides with Delta soul and is one of the most refreshing sounds to emerge from Nashville in a long time. Highly regarded behind the scenes as songsmiths and session players with innumerable hits, cuts and licks to their credit, this batch of seasoned pros has performed to sold out crowds from their inception almost two years ago. While offering new takes on classic themes of redemption and loss, and hope and home, their songs are equally informed by the mountain sound of Ralph Stanley and the rhythm and blues of Ray Charles. Stretching the boundaries of your typical bluegrass band, the rock/blues/soul vocals of guitarist Chris Stapleton put back-country