Tim Hensley’s “Ridin’ Out The Storm”
Tim HensleyNashville TN — With the finishing touches being applied to Long Monday, the first album from Cincinnati guitarist and vocalist, Tim Hensley, the first taste of this acoustic/bluegrass will be available to radio stations, November 15, 2007. The first single, from the project that’s been two years in the making, will be the Rodney Crowell penned “Ridin’ Out The Storm.”
When Buddy Cannon and I started talking about this project,” Hensley says of the stark track that captures the spirit of the song, “I remember a trip he and I’d made to New York City with Kenny to do some TV shows. We’d gone out for a walk, just around our hotel, and the snow was coming down, and it was so pretty. But you’d look around all that, and you’d see these homeless people… you know, folks with nowhere to go, and it really hits you.”
“When we started looking at songs, Buddy played me this one… and he remembered that same walk… and he agreed this song was everything we saw and felt that day. When something can hit you like that, make something real again, that’s when you know the song is strong…”
“Ridin’ Out The Storm” certainly mines a deep vein of truth. It is an honest portrait of a homeless man, who in the midst of abject poverty, is determined to maintain his dignity… the one thing that is not subject to monetary transaction.
“That is a real story,” says Grammy-winning singer/songwriting icon Crowell. “It happened to me when I was walking with my youngest daughter in New York… and I’d offered this homeless man my coat because it was so cold. He was almost offended, told me his choices were his own. He just caught me between the eyes with my own judgement…”
“And the thing about this song is that honesty,” Crowell continues. “You can tell when you hear Tim sing this song that he’s not just been there, but that he understands all the emotions I was trying to show. It’s about loneliness and sadness, but it’s also about maintaining the honor of your dignity in a very difficult place. It takes a lot of compassion to bring that to light… and he does.”
A veteran of extended stints with Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless, as well as an enduring tenure with Kenny Chesney, Hensley creates an acoustic/bluegrass hybrid that is about songs, performances, moments, truths and emotions.
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Dailey Vincent BandThe greater St. Louis area will get its first taste of the newly formed Dailey-Vincent Band early next year at the 18th annual Gateway City Bluegrass Music Festival.
It will be held Feb. 22-24 at the Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet Hotel.
The Dailey-Vincent Band features Jamie Dailey, an eight-year veteran of Doyle Lawson’s Quicksilver, and longtime Rickey Skaggs sideman and Rhonda Vincent’s brother, Darrin Vincent. Their first tour dates start in late December.
Other artists due to appear at the Gateway City festival are Ralph Stanley II, David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Sally Jones & the Sidewinders, Beth Stevens & the Stevens, The Harmans, Eddie & Martha Adcock, Justin & Jenny Robbins & Family, the Buffalo City Ramblers and the Bankesters.
The festival will include a guitar show with instrument vendors and a bluegrass talent show with audience judging in several categories, including band and instrumentalists. Around-the-clock jamming rooms will also be available.
The event is a Midwest Bluegrass Festivals promotion. Ticket information is available at 217-243-3159, www.bluegrassmidwest.com or via e-mail at info@bluegrassmidwest.com.
Hotel reservations can be made directly with the 300-room Sheraton facility, 1-314-878-1500. Callers need to mention “bluegrass festival” to obtain special rates.
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Doc WatsonTickets go on sale today, November 13 for the 2008 edition of MerleFest. The event will feature artists from a variety of styles and genres to celebrate the music of Doc and Merle Watson for the 21st year. Once again Doc Watson will host the four-day festival, on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, NC on April 24-27, 2008.
Collaborations and jam sessions have been a major part of the MerleFest experience since the beginning and MerleFest 2008 will continue that tradition. Special collaborations between artists and exciting jam sessions that will fill the stage with talent are being planned throughout the four-days of the festival.
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