Jim Lauderdale performs on the Music City Roots. Photo courtesy Music City Roots.

Music City Roots, WSM 650 AM’s newest live radio show, will put some of Bluegrass’ finest front and center next Wednesday evening during its weekly 2 hour broadcast. Scheduled for November 4th edition of Music City Roots are The Grascals, The Josh Williams Band, James Intveld and Shawn Byrne.

Music City Roots is broadcast live in front of an audience from the famed Loveless Cafe’s newest event facility, the Loveless Barn on the outskirts of Nashville, Tenn.

Music City Roots is hosted by famed WSM announcer Eddie Stubbs, with musical host Jim Lauderdale and String Theory Media’s Craig Havighurst heading up the artist interviews during the broadcast. The show is broadcast on WSM 650 AM on the radio dial or online at WSMOnline.com on the net from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (central) on Wednesday nights.

Tickets to attend the broadcast are available online for $10 ($5 with Student ID) at the Music City Roots Web site.

About The Grascals

Already among the most beloved and acclaimed of contemporary bluegrass groups, The Grascals were the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Entertainers of the Year, first earning the top honor in 2006, only one year after being named Emerging Artist of the Year and winning Song of the Year for “Me and John and Paul.” This year their latest addition to the band, Kristin Scott Benson took home her 2nd IBMA Banjo Player for the year award. Their trademark blend of traditional bluegrass and classic country with more modern elements, delivered with vocal and instrumental intensity and virtuosity, earned them Grammy nominations for their first two critically-acclaimed releases—The Grascals and Long List of Heartaches. Timely and timeless, The Grascals’ music is entirely relevant to the here and now, yet based on a deeply-seeded knowledge of and admiration for the music’s founding fathers.

About the Josh Williams Band

IBMA’s 2008 and 2009 Guitar Player of the Year is happier than ever working with his own band, and playing his own style of bluegrass music. After graduation from high school Josh Williams spent five years on the road with “Special Consensus”, followed by four years of three hundred days per year touring with “The Rage”. Josh claims Doc Watson and Tony Rice as his biggest influences on guitar. Josh lives in Burns, TN, just outside Nashville.

About Shawn Byrne

Shawn Byrne moved to Nashville from Boston in May 2003 without knowing a soul and began washing dishes at the World Famous Bluebird cafe. Since that time Shawn has had his songs recorded by such artists as the Duhks, Aussie super-star Adam Brand and Kevin Montgomery. Shawn was awarded a SESAC award for his song “Ol’ Cook Pot” recorded by Sugar Hill recording artists The Duhks who took the song to the top 5 on the Americana charts.

About James Inveltd

A native of Los Angeles, James Intveld started his career at an early age listening and singing along to his parents’ recordings of Hank Williams, Sr., Dean Martin, Lefty Frizzell, and Elvis. During the cow punk movement of the ’80s, Intveld was working the same clubs as Dwight Yoakam and Rosie Flores, playing his own brand of rockabilly, and so impressed Town South of Bakersfield producers Pete Anderson and Dusty Wakeman that he was included on the second volume of the compilation series.