There was another bluegrass wedding in Tennessee last month.
Guitar gunslinger Clay Hess, currently working with Sierra Hull & Highway 111, married Samantha West on May 22 in Gatlinburg. They were engaged in mid-February and are living now in Ohio.
Congratulations and best wishes to Clay and Samantha!
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Sierra Hull has announced that Clay Hess, formerly of Mountain Heart, will be joining her band, Highway 111, effective January 2009. Clay has been performing with Sierra this fall as his schedule allowed, and is now making the switch official.
In addition to Clay on guitar and Sierra on mandolin,...
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After a hiatus of 16 months, Clay Jones has re-assumed the guitar chair with Mountain Heart.
Jones left the band in August of 2007 to deal with some personal and familial issues, and with Clay Hess having left the group to work with Sierra Hull, he is happy for the chance to return.
"I'm so excited...
Mountain Heart guitarist Clay Jones will be online with Gracie Muldoon later today, during her Muldoon In The Afternoon show on WorldWideBluegrass.com. The show airs Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m. (eastern), and Clay will be on with Gracie this afternoon, starting at 1:30.
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Last night as John and I wondered the halls listening to jams and showcases, shaking hands, and visiting with old friends, I had the camera out and snapped a lot of photos. Here's a few photos for your viewing pleasure.
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When Sierra Hull was performing at the Lowell Folk Festival just north of Boston, Massachusetts, she did an interview with Kathleen Pierce of the Lowell Sun.
The article, which ran on July 31, discussed a number of topics, including her upcoming move to the area to attend college.
Between filling...
I just wanted to take a second to thank you for the tickets to the Mountain Heart/Tony Rice show at the Paramount Center last night. Winning the tickets was only the first of a series of surprises and thrills. A surprise opening act, Barry Scott and Second Wind, used a 25 minute set to open the show....
Rick Hayes, mandolinist with The Gibson Brothers, is in the studio putting the finishing touches to his first solo CD, Fly By Night, due for release in May. Rick plays mandolin, guitar and bass on the project with Ron Stewart on banjo, Jim VanCleve on fiddle and Josh Swift on dobro.
Hayes handles...
When a 16 year old bluegrass prodigy enlists some of the biggest names in the business to help record her debut project for a major independent label, it's fair to presume that we are looking at something special. Such is the case with Sierra Hull, whose upcoming project is already generating some serious...
Award winning dobro player and band leader, Randy Kohrs, has just added a couple new faces to the line up of his band, The Lites.
UPDATE: We just heard from Ashley Brown, Randy's fiddle player, that the band name has been dropped and the group will henceforth be known only as The Randy Kohrs Band.
Joining...
We posted a few weeks ago when it was announced that Mountain Heart would be opening a number of shows for country rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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This afternoon, I had a lovely chat with Lynn Morris and Marshall Wilborn. Longtime bluegrass fans are well familiar with Lynn’s many years as a performer, bandleader and friend to our music, and we all felt a great loss when she suffered a stroke in Match of 2003, keeping her off the road and out [...]
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