Happy Thanksgiving! This is the next installment in my series of matching bands with listeners!If you like the band Blue Highway, one of the so-called supergroups of bluegrass, you might also enjoy music by the following bands:
1) The Chapmans (This band of brothers, their father, and an extra fiddle player is making bluegrass sound like something from fifty years ago that just got polished to a high shine and moved up the block.)
2) Dailey and Vincent (This duo of "brothers from different mothers"--and different fathers!--and their supporting band members are as accomplished and focused as Blue Highway, if slightly more traditional-sounding. They have been a favorite at the IBMA awards show, scooping up half [well, it seemed like half!] the available awards already in the past couple of years. Jamie Dailey is former lead singer for Doyle Lawson; Darrin Vincent backed up Ricky Skaggs for years and co-produces much of his sister Rhonda's music.)
3) Infamous Stringdusters (Their CD, "Fork in the Road," was produced by Tim Stafford, the guitarist for Blue Highway, and their band has been influenced by Blue Highway.)
4) Balsam Range (This band is coming up with some great ways to play old songs and make them new! They also have some refreshingly original songs.)
5) Grasstowne (Made up of members from other more well-known groups [Steve Gulley from Mountain Heart, Alan Bibey once of IIIrd Tyme Out, Phil Leadbetter, etc.], this group's debut was of course professional-level.)
6) Kenny & Amanda Smith (This is one of my favorite groups. They've got it all--great songs, gifted singers and players, a drive and polish that's there as much when you hear them live as on CD. . . Some of their songs were actually written by Tim Stafford of Blue Highway!)
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