Doyle Lawson adds new band members
Doyle Lawson commented yesterday afternoon on his bulletin board that he is hiring fiddle player and bass singer Alan Johnson (formerly with BlueRidge) to take Mike Hartgrove’s place, and banjo player Chris Warner (formerly with Jimmy Martin) in place of the departing Terry Baucom. Warner will be singing baritone in the band.
More details about start dates, etc., should be forthcoming later today.
Stay tuned…


The annual fall rotation of band members continues, as this weekend marks the official start of fiddlers Mike Hartgrove with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Jesse Stockman with The Isaacs.
Mike returns to Quicksilver almost two years to the day that founding member Terry Baucom returned on banjo, reuniting...
We hear from Suzanne Lawson that Alan Johnson, fiddler and bass singer with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver since March of 2007, will be leaving the group at the end of May.
Alan has accepted a full-time position with the U.S. Postal Service, and will be taking a break from performing as a bluegrass...
And the bluegrass band scramble continues...
Joey Cox will be the newest member of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, replacing Chris Warner who stepped in briefly when Terry Baucom left the band in March. Just 24 years old, Joey has already had a stellar bluegrass career. He has toured and recorded...
Last night's (5/29) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver concert at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC can be viewed online.
The show runs just over an hour and includes a number of Doyle's most popular numbers, plus several songs from his current Gospel release, Help Is On The Way.
It may also be...




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