Rural Rhythm Records "Fresh Cuts & Key Tracks No. 3"

Arcadia, CA — Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce the third Bluegrass Radio Release, “Fresh Cuts & Key Tracks No. 3.” The special promotional radio CD includes seven new singles from upcoming and current Rural Rhythm CDs by: Audie Blaylock & Redline, Michael Martin Murphey, Tommy Webb, The Marksmen, Mashville Brigade and Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad. The CD will be arriving at Bluegrass Radio stations the first week in December. More information regarding these artists can be found on the label’s website at www.RuralRhythm.com

Fresh Cuts & Key Tracks No. 3. Tracks include:

“Whispering Waters” by Audie Blaylock & Redline.
The new single “Whispering Waters” from his upcoming Rural Rhythm Records debut self-titled album “Audie Blaylock and Redline,” showcases Audie Blaylock’s powerful vocals, which have placed him in an elite group of today’s bluegrass singers. He has received multiple honors and awards with Jimmy Martin, Rhonda Vincent, Michael Cleveland, and now steps out on his own with his group Redline who are some of the hottest young pickers in Bluegrass today.

“Carolina in the Pines” by Michael Martin Murphey.
Murphey’s songs have been recorded all the way back to the time of Flatt and Scruggs. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Special Consensus, The Country Gentlemen, The Bluegrass Cardinals have recorded Michael Martin Murphey’s classic song “Carolina In The Pines”, leading to a BMI award for airplay. The song was loved by millions who owned Murphey’s “Blue Sky, Night Thunder” album that included another classic hit – “Wildfire”. The original Billboard Pop hit introduced a new generation of “hip” music fans to Bluegrass sounds. Ten years later, “Murph’s” second hit version on the Billboard Country charts took “Modern Country” fans back to their mountain music roots. Now “Murph” delivers a grass version of an already-proven grass fan favorite that includes today’s top acoustic and Bluegrass musicians like old friends Pat Flynn, Sam Bush and Craig Nelson (veterans of many albums with “Murph”), and new friends Rob Ickes, Ronnie McCoury, Charlie Cushman and Andy Leftwich.

“Lone Cowboy” by Michael Martin Murphey.
Murphey’s “Lone Cowboy” defines the album’s title, “Buckaroo Blue Grass” – harking back to the time when Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, and Flatt and Scruggs all wore cowboy hats and boots, and sang of the rural life of farming and ranching – a life Murphey still lives. He is the best-selling (one million plus), RIAA Gold Record Certified recording artist in Cowboy Music, drawing on his lifetime experience as a singing, guitar-pickin’ rancher and farmer, and back-country adventurer. Michael has always used Bluegrass’s top musicians on his wildly popular “Cowboy Songs, Vol. 1-5″. His music and influences are a rollicking journey that begins at the rural front porches of Murphey’s mountain log cabin in the New Mexico Rockies and prairie ranch house in Wisconsin – blazing a trail and finding intertwining pathways across the vast Americana panorama of Cowboy and Bluegrass Music.

“A Hard Row to Hoe” by Tommy Webb.
Tommy’s debut single for Rural Rhythm Records, “A Hard Row To Hoe” speaks to America’s Heartland with a message that is very relevant to today’s tough economic times. If you are a farmer, rancher, factory worker, truck driver or anyone in America’s work force then you can relate to this song’s important message. Tommy went back in the studio with band members and Ron Stewart, his producer, and captured all the passion and conviction to drive this “anthem-like” song.

“Love Letters (in the Sand)” by The Marksmen.
“Love Letters (In the Sand)” is a beautiful gospel song co-written by Mark Wheeler, who sings lead accompanied by the rest of the gospel award winning Marksmen lead by Earle Wheeler who have recently celebrated 40 years in the music business. “Love Letters (In The Sand)” is the first single and features label mate Jim VanCleve on fiddle and is from the upcoming Spring 2009 new release by the Marksmen titled “Blue Ridge Mountain Memories.”

“Roving Gambler” by Mashville Brigade.
“Roving Gambler” is the new single by the Mashville Brigade, a band that was created over a year ago, performing on a regular basis at the world famous Station Inn in Nashville. This has been a wonderful vehicle for this group of musicians, and their friends, to come and play live when they are home while not touring with their major Bluegrass bands. Recorded like many of the Classic Bluegrass Hit Albums during the Golden Age of Bluegrass, “Roving Gambler” and the album “Bluegrass Smash Hits, Volume 1″ was recorded without any fancy overdubs or studio tricks, just pure organic and true bluegrass performances with traditional arrangements honoring and paying tribute to the legendary bluegrass groups of the past. This song and album is a fresh new spin on some of the most popular all-time classic bluegrass standards which have been fan favorites for many decades!

“Run On” by Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad.
The creative five-part harmonies and energy in this great gospel song from their most recent and eighth album, Pickin’, Praisin’ & Singin’, currently #4 on Bluegrass Music Profiles Magazine’s Top 10 Album Chart, features an outstanding band quickly becoming known for consistently rich harmony. Run On, currently #6 on the PowerGrass Radio Gospel Chart, is the perfect band-arranged classic displaying versatile and complex harmonies for which Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad are becoming so well-known. Their performance on Run On is yet another reason why this group debuted at #3 on Billboard’s Top 50 Bluegrass Album Chart with this 16-track collection of gospel gems. For over ten years, this band has proved over and over again it well-deserves the IBMA Award nominations, Gospel Bluegrass Song of the Year (Singing News Magazine 2007), multiple Top 10 albums, and the highlight reviews its albums have earned.