Rhonda Vincent has released her 10th video for the song “I Gotta Start Somewhere” from her latest album, “Good Thing Going“

Burlington, MA – Rhonda Vincent has just released her 10th career video – for the song “I Gotta Start Somewhere” from her latest album, “Good Thing Going“. The video, filmed in Bryson City, NC with Los Angeles director Dallas Henry, features Vincent trying to get over a broken relationship by retreating to the mountains. Vincent’s band, The Rage, make their video debut along with her driver, Yogi Bare. The video premiered on the bluegrass.cmt.com blog to help launch this new CMT initiative – a blog devoted to bluegrass music – on May 1 and will debut on CMT Pure in heavy rotation on Monday, May 5.

The release of “I Gotta Start Somewhere” and the bluegrass.cmt.com blog coincides with the 20th Anniversary of Worldwide Bluegrass Music Month, an initiative that began in 1988 to develop a larger audience for bluegrass music. During the month of May, bluegrass devotees ensure that the month is filled with bluegrass events around the world.

The video can be viewed here: http://blog.cmt.com/category/bluegrass.

Released in January, “Good Thing Going” has topped Billboard’s Top Bluegrass Albums Chart (currently #8), Bluegrass Unlimited’s Top 15 Bluegrass Albums Chart (currently #2), and Bluegrass Music Profile’s Top 10 Bluegrass CDs Chart (currently #1).

For a complete and up-to-date tour schedule, go to www.rhondavincent.com or www.rounder.com.

Rhonda… The Rage… The Road

• May 2 — Oakland Community College - Waterford, MI
• May 3 — Centennial Hall - London, ON Canada
• May 4 — Apple Blossom Festival - Winchester, VA
• May 10 — Little Nashville Opry - Nashville, IN
• May 11-13 — Silver Dollar City - Branson, MO
• May 16 — Central VA Family Bluegrass Festival - Amelia, VA
• May 17 — Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - Gettysburg, PA
• May 24 — Prairie Home Companion - Vienna, VA
• May 30 — Strawberry Park Festival - Preston, CT
• May 31 — Graves Mountain Festival - Syria, VA

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BlueHighway “Through the Window of a Train” (Rounder)

Burlington, MA – Rounder Records is pleased to announce that many of its artists will be performing at MerleFest on April 24–27 in Wilkesboro, NC. MerleFest began in the spring of 1988 and has grown from two flat-bed trailers and 4,000 attendees to 13 stages with more than 81,500 festival participants. This “one time, one night, one man show,” according to MerleFest Executive Director B. Townes, has turned into one of the largest American roots festivals in the country. A complete list of Rounder performances is below. For more information and stage schedules, visit www.merlefest.org.

Blue Highway (Thursday & Friday, April 24 & 25)
One of the most esteemed groups in contemporary bluegrass, Blue Highway excels at every facet of the music, from instrumental dexterity to impeccable vocal interplay to literate, powerful songwriting. Individually, Jason Burleson (banjo, guitar, mandolin), Rob Ickes (Dobro), Shawn Lane (mandolin, fiddle, vocals), Tim Stafford (guitar, vocals), and Wayne Taylor (bass, vocals) are at the forefront of the genre, appearing on innumerable projects as sidemen, songwriters, and solo artists. Their latest album, Through the Window of a Train was released in February and finds the band continuing to grow and mature in all areas. Blue Highway has released eight acclaimed albums, received a Grammy nomination for their album Wondrous Love, topped the Bluegrass Unlimited radio charts, and won an astonishing 13 International Bluegrass Music Association awards (individually and collectively).

Blue Highway “Through the Window of A Train” CD Review on BluegrassJournal.com

Sierra Hull & Highway 111 (Friday & Saturday, April 25 & 26)

Beginning at eight years old, Sierra Hull has become an adored and respected young mandolin picker in bluegrass circles. Since then, the 16-year old Hull has competed in and won numerous mandolin and guitar championships, showcased at The International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass, and was a featured performer on the Great High Mountain Tour, which included an all-star bluegrass lineup (with Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, and others), that performed songs from the soundtracks of O Brother Where Art Thou and Cold Mountain. On May 6, Rounder Records will release Secrets, her national debut album. Secrets was co-produced by Hull and Ron Block (Union Station) and features Block, Dan Tyminski, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Tony Rice, Jim VanCleve, Rob Ickes, Chris Jones, Jason Moore, and 17-year-old banjo whiz Cory Walker (who is also in Sierra’s band, Highway 111).

The Claire Lynch Band (Saturday & Sunday, April 26 & 27)

Claire Lynch has long been recognized as a creative influence in bluegrass music – first for her early years with Alabama’s Front Porch String Band (which was labeled as “a musical force to be reckoned with” by John Starling) and later for her superb singing and songwriting. Two of her five albums on Rounder have been nominated for a Grammy® and, among her many other nominations, she won the IBMA Award for “Female Vocalist of the Year” in 1997. Her latest album, Crowd Favorites, was released in October and is a collection of some of the most-requested songs from Claire Lynch’s impressively rich repertoire.

Claire Lynch “Crowd Favorites” CD Review on BluegrassJournal.com

Tony Rice (Friday & Saturday, April 25 & 26)

Tony Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from straight-ahead bluegrass to jazz-influenced new acoustic music, to songwriter-oriented folk. He is perhaps the greatest innovator in acoustic flatpicked guitar since Clarence White. Over the course of his career, he has played alongside J.D. Crowe and the New South, David Grisman (during the formation of “Dawg Music”), led his own groups, collaborated with fellow picker Norman Blake and recorded with his brothers. Rice remains one of bluegrass’ top instrumentalists, bringing originality and vitality to everything he plays.

The Dan Tyminski Band (Sunday, April 27)

Dynamic on stage, down to earth off stage, Dan Tyminski has the voice, instrumental chops, and charisma to be counted among the most recognizable and popular male vocalists on today’s bluegrass and country music scenes. Since 1994, his ace instrumental skill (mainly on guitar, but also on mandolin) and burnished, soulful tenor singing has been a key component of Alison Krauss and Union Station, arguably the most visible and successful bluegrass band in the modern era. Prior to that, he rose to national prominence as a member of bluegrass favorite, the Lonesome River Band. With Union Station on hiatus for most of 2008, Tyminski has formed a new incarnation of the Dan Tyminski Band, with whom he is releasing his new album Wheels on June 17. This new edition includes longtime Union Station associate Barry Bales (bass), former Union Station and Mountain Heart member Adam Steffey (mandolin), sideman extraordinaire Ron Stewart (banjo, fiddle), and newcomer Justin Moses (fiddle, dobro).

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage (Saturday, April 26)
The reigning queen of bluegrass, Rhonda Vincent, was born with music inside of her. She inherited timeless bluegrass strains from her family and the hills of her Missouri homeland. You can hear them echo every time she sings, or when she runs her hands across a mandolin, guitar, or fiddle. Yet Vincent’s music is a transformation of tradition – a very modern manifestation of her roots in classic bluegrass, refracted through her very real experiences as a bandleader, musician, songwriter, mother, wife, and woman. Rounder released her latest album Good Thing Going in January and it is Vincent’s most personal album to date. With hope, resilience, and gratitude, Vincent presents a set of songs that range from timelessly straight-ahead bluegrass to effervescent swing and heartfelt ballads.

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Darrell Webb

Darrell Webb, currently on the road as a member of Rhonda Vincent’s band the Rage, will be recording a live album tonight Monday March 17th. “An Evening With Darrell Webb” takes place at Bluegrass at Belamys in Surgoinsville, Tenn. which is roughly 20 miles west of Kingsport. Admission is free and the performace starts at 6:00PM eastern time with limited seating available.

Darrell will record his popular new Rage song “You Can’t Have One Without The Other”, along with many favorites like “Little Maggie”, “Molly & Tenbrooks”. Rhonda Vincent & The Rage will be Darrell’s special guest for the evening.

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Rhonda Vincent and The Rage on stage at Bluegrass First Class in Asheville, NC 2008. Photo by Thomas Stout.

Tony Rice on stage at Bluegrass First Class in Asheville, NC 2008. Photo by Thomas Stout.

Tony Rice on stage at Bluegrass First Class in Asheville, NC 2008. Photo by Thomas Stout.

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Burlington, MA – Rounder Recording artist’s currently hold the top four slots on the Billboard bluegrass albums chart with Rhonda Vincent’s Good Thing Going at #1, Blue Highway’s Through The Window Of A Train at #2, and the self-titled albums from Dailey & Vincent and The SteelDrivers at #3 and #4 respectively. This is Rhonda Vincent’s seventh week at #1, a position that she’s held since the album’s release on January 7. Blue Highway debuted at #2 last week, moving Dailey & Vincent to #3, while The SteelDrivers’ release from January 15 has stayed within the top 10 over the past 6 weeks.

With Good Thing Going, Rhonda Vincent presents a set of songs that range from timelessly straight-ahead bluegrass to effervescent swing and heartfelt ballads. The twelve tracks that make up Good Thing Going include five originals or co-writes, alongside a range of contemporary and classic cover tracks including a beautiful rendition of “The Water is Wide” with country superstar Keith Urban.

Blue Highway’s Through The Window Of A Train, the band’s eighth album, was released on February 12 and features 12 songs, all written or co-written by Blue Highway’s five accomplished songwriters whose songs have been recorded by bluegrass staples Ronnie Bowman, Mountain Heart, Ricky Skaggs, and others. Through The Window Of A Train showcases Blue Highway at their songwriting, instrumental, and vocal peak.

Released January 29, the self-titled debut of new bluegrass duo Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent features a broad spectrum of traditional bluegrass, country, and gospel sounds, unified by the duo’s breath-taking vocal strength and harmony as well as their virtuosic musicianship. While not related by blood, Dailey & Vincent invite favorable comparisons to the best in brother duo singing – the Stanley Brothers, the Osborne Brothers and Jim and Jesse.

On their national debut album of all original material, The SteelDrivers’ back-country high lonesome collides with Delta soul and is one of the most refreshing sounds to emerge from Nashville in a long time. Highly regarded behind the scenes as songsmiths and session players with innumerable hits, cuts and licks to their credit, this batch of seasoned pros has performed to sold out crowds from their inception almost two years ago.

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