Dailey & Vincent have topped the Sirius Bluegrass Countdown Chart again with “More Than a Name on a Wall,” a song the Statler Brothers had a hit on in 1989.

Correction:  We mistakenly reported the wrong date on Dailey& Vincent  being guest DJ’s on SIRIUS Bluegrass 65. The Correct Date is Friday,  June 6 at 5 PM (Eastern Time).

Nashville, Tenn. — New Rounder Records duo Dailey & Vincent top this week’s Count Down Yonder Weekly Top 17 Songs of SIRIUS Bluegrass with “More Than a Name on a Wall” from their self-titled CD released in January. The song, written by Jimmy Fortune and John Rimel about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, was a hit for the Statler Brothers in 1989 and is still moving and timely today.

This is the second time Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have topped the SIRIUS Bluegrass countdown. Their first #1 was “By the Mark,” a gospel number written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, featuring the pared-down sound of Jamie and Darrin’s voices, guitar and mandolin. It remained at #1 for four weeks. In the No Depression review of Dailey & Vincent, writer David Baxter comments, “ . . . their sparse, reverent rendering of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings’ ‘By The Mark’ could plant a seed of faith in the hardest of skeptic hearts.”

“By the Mark” has also been nominated for Favorite Song at the 2008 Front Porch Fellowship Bluegrass Gospel Awards. Nominations are based on online, phone and mail requests to the nationally syndicated Front Porch Fellowship radio program, which airs in over 175 markets in the U.S., Canada and the Virgin Islands on the Solid Gospel Radio Network and streams on http://www.solidgospel.com. Voting takes place until July 31 on www.singingnews.com (click on Front Porch Fellowship Fan Awards icon). Awards will be presented on September 11 during the Bluegrass Pickin’ Jamboree at the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dailey & Vincent will be guest DJ’s on SIRIUS Bluegrass 65 on Friday, May 30, Friday, June 6 at 5 p.m. eastern. They are also hosting the Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree on Saturday, May 31, with special guest Jimmy Fortune. Fans can tune in on 650 AM WSM, or listen online at http://www.wsmonline.com starting at midnight (central).

More information on Dailey & Vincent, including their #1 album on the Bluegrass Unlimited National Bluegrass Survey album chart, is available at http://www.daileyvincent.com and www.myspace.com/thedaileyvincentband.

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Dailey & Vincent’s Opry Debut - photo by Chris Hollo / Hollo Photographics

The Ryman Auditorium became another debut venue in late December for new Rounder recording artists Dailey & Vincent. With the crowd nearly in a New Year’s Eve mood on Dec. 29, Jamie Daily and Darren Vincent took to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry for the first time — as band leaders.

Both are no strangers to the Grand Ole Opry, having performed there many times as side members with various groups, such as Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Vincent and, in Dailey’s case, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.

But their debut on that stage as Dailey & Vincent made my very first visit to the Grand Ole Opry that much more memorable. Getting to see the Opry that night at the famous Ryman didn’t hurt a bit either.

The duo opened their set with a barebones version of “By The Mark,” with only the two band leaders singing. The power and dynamic range of their voices combined would make you think you were listening to a three or four-part harmony group.

For their next two numbers ,they chose “Poor Boy Workin’ Blues” and “Don’t You Call My Name.”

Booked at over 100 shows already this year, Dailey & Vincent promise to be one of bluegrass’ best emerging artists. Don’t pass up a chance to see this incredibly talented band.

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Rounder Records has an exclusive interview with Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent of the new group Dailey Vincent on the labels website. In the Interview the two discuss how they first met, some of their influences and how the duties of running a fulltime touring Bluegrass Band are divided amongst the two.

Below is an excerpt from that interview. You can read the full Daily & Vincent interview on Rounder’s Site here.

Darrin: My role is to road manage, handle stage production, give tour support on the road, musically co-produce our recordings, take care of all production in the studio, and also to cheerlead in and out of the studio. I’m a team player, and whatever needs to be done, I try my best to do it.

Jamie: Yeah – Darrin oversees the music production, scheduling studio time, flights and tour travel arrangements. He also takes care of the sound equipment we need. My role is the lead vocalist, guitar player, and show writer – I work hard to come up with all the banter and between-song commentary and routines. I am also the finance and business director for Dailey & Vincent.Even though both of us have our own duties, we talk everyday and make all final decisions together after being advised from the Dailey & Vincent administration, meaning our manager Don Light, our publicist Karen Byrd, our business management team of Rayburn, Bates, and Fitzgerald, and our attorney David Crow.

Rounder: What was it like debuting the band at the 2007 IBMA World of Bluegrass? Were you nervous?

Darrin: Our first show at IBMA 2007 was an amazing amount of pressure. I had prepared everything for us to just walk up to the mic and hit it, but as my luck would have it, that wouldn’t be the case. We had just bought a new monitor system, but when we stepped up and tested it – nothing. So, Jamie is saying, “I have no vocal! NO VOCAL!” At this point, I want to scream. The announcer is stalling for us to figure it out, and I start randomly hitting buttons. And bingo – I got lucky! We had sound, and after that I don’t know what happened except fortunately the crowd went wild: screaming, clapping, and standing up.

Jamie: It was an awesome experience, but I was scared to death! It was not perfect but our nerves overtook us…

In other Dailey Vincent News:

Dailey & Vincent with Jeannie Seely during their Opry debut. - photo by Chris Hollo / Hollo Photographics

New Rounder Records duo Dailey & Vincent made their Grand Ole Opry debut on December 29 on the revered stage of the Ryman Auditorium. During their two sets they performed “By the Mark,” “Poor Boy Workin’ Blues” and “Don’t You Call My Name” from their forthcoming self-titled debut, in stores on January 29. Opry legend Jeannie Seely also made a special request for them to sing “Senses,” a hit song she wrote with Glen Campbell which was recorded by Willie Nelson, Connie Smith and Doyle Lawson, with whom Dailey had been lead vocalist for the past nine years. Vincent was part of Ricky Skaggs’ Kentucky Thunder band for 10 ½ years.

Dailey & Vincent’s Opry Debut - photo by Chris Hollo / Hollo Photographics

Dailey & Vincent made their Opry debut before beginning their first concert tour on January 5 in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Their band includes Jeff Parker on mandolin, Joe Dean on banjo, guitar and mandolin, and Adam Haynes on fiddle.

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Editor’s note: We’ve met and visited with a lot of wonderful people in the bluegrass world in the past few years, and especially in the last six months that we’ve been involved in our Web site. We asked a handful of some memorable people we’ve visited with over the past year and invited them to share a bluegrass Christmas memory. Although we didn’t meet Jamie Dailey on the circuit this year, we’re looking forward to crossing his path, along with his new singing partner Darrin Vincent, in the months ahead. In the meantime, both heard about our holiday project and were gracious enough to offer a holiday reflection. You can read Darrin Vincent’s Christmas Memories here.

Jamie Dailey

One of my fondest memories of Christmas as a child was decorating our home the day after Thanksgiving. We would start on the outside. We lived on a hill above a beautiful lake, with surrounding hills and a huge bridge off in the distance that crossed the lake that fed into the Cumberland River. My dad and I would put up hundreds of lights all over the hillside and around the plank fence that went around our five acres of land. When it got dark we lit up the house and land, and you could see traffic literally stopping on the bridge across the lake as they looked at our lights. After that we went inside to help my mother put up decorations.

On Christmas day it was time to see what Santa had brought and to see if he had eaten the cookies we had left! Then Mama had Christmas dinner ready around 4:00 or so, something we still do. I loved every minute of it and still do!

I have continued the tradition of decorating and going all out at Christmas time. This year my family and I will celebrate Christmas in my new home in Brentwood, Tennessee. Everyone coming in town to visit is staying all night on Christmas Eve. I can’t wait!

Jamie S. Dailey
Dailey & Vincent

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