Blue Highway hit the #1 spot on Sirius’s Count Down Yonder Bluegrass Chart for the week of August 15.

Burlington, MA – Bluegrass supergroup Blue Highway’s new single “Two Soldiers” is currently the #1 song on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Count Down Yonder for the week of 8/15. “Two Soldiers” is a song sung from the prospective of the soldiers whose task it is to inform families that their loved one has been killed in duty. This poignant track is from Blue Highway’s February release, Through The Window Of A Train (Rounder Records).

The news of their #1 came just a day after the 2008 International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) Award Nominations. Blue Highway received six nominations including Vocal Group of the Year, Instrumental Group of the Year, Album of the Year (Through the Window of a Train), and Song of the Year (“Through the Window of a Train”). Band member Tim Stafford was nominated for Guitar Player of the Year and Rob Ickes, who has been Dobro Player of the Year a record-setting nine times, was nominated again in this category.

One of the most influential groups in contemporary bluegrass, Blue Highway fuses tradition with progress to create their own unique and timeless style. Through The Window Of A Train, the band’s eighth album, features 12 songs, all written or co-written by Blue Highway’s five accomplished songwriters whose songs have been recorded by bluegrass stars 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.

Blue Highway is: Tim Stafford (guitar, vocals), Wayne Taylor (lead vocals, bass), Shawn Lane (tenor vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle), Jason Burleson (banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass vocals), and Rob Ickes (Dobro, Scheerhorn acoustic slide guitar).

Blue Highway Tour Dates:

• Aug 31 — Woodstown, NJ - Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
• Sep 6 — Boone, NC - High Country Bluegrass Festival
• Sep 7 — Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Valley Fair
• Sep 11 — Newland, NC - Avery County Fair
• Sep 13 — East Troy, WI - East Troy Bluegrass Festival
• Sep 21 — Bristol, TN - Rhythm & Roots
• Sep 27 — Denton, NC - FarmPark Bluegrass Festival