Archive for September 8th, 2008

Veteran bassist Marshall Wilborn in line for IBMA honor

Category: IBMA Nominees

By Dan Tackett
September 8, 2008

Marshall Wilborn holds down the bottom end in this performance with bluegrass super group Longview at the 2007 River City Bluegrass Festival in Portland, OR.
Marshall Wilborn, a seasoned veteran of top bluegrass bands, is a finalist for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year award.
His band affiliations over the years read like [...]

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Bales up for IBMA Bass Player award

Category: IBMA Nominees

By Dan Tackett
September 8, 2008

Barry Bales, Dan Tyminski, Shawn Lane (Blue Highway) and Ron Block
Barry Bales, currently on tour with the Dan Tyminski Band, is one of the top five finalists for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year.
Both Bales and Tyminski are members of Alison Krauss & Union Station, but have temporarily changed musical directions [...]

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Mike Bub after IBMA bass award No. 6

Category: IBMA Nominees

By Dan Tackett
September 8, 2008

Mike Bub
Mike Bub has claimed the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year award five times — and this time he’s on the shortlist of five nominees to win the award again.
Bub, who also packs a Grammy under his belt, can trace that honor to the Del McCoury Band with whom he [...]

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MIssy Raines in line for No. 8 IBMA bassist honor

Category: IBMA Nominees

By Dan Tackett
September 8, 2008

Missy Raines & the New Hip
EP Release at Norms Roadhouse, Nashville, Tenn.
Missy Raines is a perennial nominee — and winner — of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year Award. She’s claimed that honor seven times and is in contention to win the honor again this year.
Raines has run the gamut [...]

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Darrin Vincent in line for 2008 IBMA bass honor

Category: IBMA Nominees

By Dan Tackett
September 8, 2008

Darrin Vincent
And now for something completely different in Darrin Vincent’s career: A finalist nomination for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year award.
Vincent has become well known throughout the past several years as a rhythm guitarist and harmony vocalist with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. But when he and [...]

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