Charlie Sizemore is Topping the Charts!
Category: Bluegrass News
By Travis Tackett
December 21, 2007
Charlie Sizemore photo by Señor McGuireBurlington, MA — Did you hear the good news? Good News is #1 on XM Radio’s Bluegrass Junction and the single “Alison’s Band” is the #1 single on Sirius Radio’s Count Down Yonder: Weekly Top 17 Songs of Sirius Bluegrass. Good News, Sizemore’s first studio album in five years, was released in August on Rounder Records and was produced by Sizemore and acclaimed country producer/songwriter Buddy Cannon (Kenny Chesney, George Jones, Reba McEntire). The L.A. Daily News calls Good News “…one of the year’s best bluegrass releases,” while CMT.com says, “…if you like easygoing bluegrass music with smart, clever lyrics, this one will make you feel pretty darn good.”
2008 Schedule
January
12 — Mountain Arts Center — Prestonburg, KY
24 — The Down Home — Johnson City, TN
25 — Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center — Hendersonville, NC
26 — Luckett’s Community Center — Lucketts, VA
February
15 — Bethlehem United Church of Christ — Maple Lake, MN
16 — Paul Bunyan Playhouse — Bedmidji, MN
17 — Armatage Elementary School — Minneapolis, MN
March
8 — Tawas United Methodist Church Family Center — Tawas City, MI
13 — Two Rivers High School — Two Rivers, WI
14 — American Legion Hall — Evanston, IL
15 — The Iron Post — Urbana, IL
April
3 — Red Light Café — Atlanta, GA
4-5 — Florida State Bluegrass Festival — Perry, FL
May
24 — Dr. Ralph Stanley’s Memorial Bluegrass Festival McClure, VA
“Alison’s Band,” Sizemore’s lighthearted hit single about yearning to be a member of Union Station, continues its ascent at #12 on Bluegrass Unlimited’s Top 30 Single Chart and #6 on Bluegrass Music Profile’s Top 20 Hot Singles while Good News is #3 on Bluegrass Unlimited’s National Bluegrass Top 15 Album Chart and #3 on Bluegrass Music Profile’s Top 10 Bluegrass CDs.
The Charlie Sizemore Band have announced their spring 2008 tour schedule (below). The Charlie Sizemore Band is Charlie Sizemore (lead vocals, guitar), Danny Barnes (mandolin, vocals), Matt DeSpain (Dobro), John Pennell (bass) and Wayne Fields (banjo).In addition to being one of bluegrass music’s most distinctive and expressive vocal stylists, Charlie Sizemore is also recognized as being one of its most literate and thoughtful songwriters, with impeccable taste in choosing lesser-known, under-appreciated, well-written tunes by other writers. Based in Nashville, where he runs a successful law practice, Sizemore has moved a long way from his roots in eastern Kentucky, on Puncheon Creek, in the state’s quintessentially Appalachian county, Magoffin. In other ways, however, he is as deeply close as ever, as connected to the sources of his musical inspiration as when he joined Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys at age seventeen, replacing the late Keith Whitley, for the next nine and a half years.
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