Jim & Missy hang it up
In the midst of all the announcements of new bands and changing personnel that have been made this year, there is one that we have yet to mention. After 8 years, Jim Hurst and Missy Raines have decided to call an end to their performing together as a duo. Both will continue to tour and record as members of The Claire Lynch Band, but Jim and Missy both felt that the time commitments with Claire, and their other side projects, simply left them with too little time for too many projects.
Missy has a new band with whom she will perform as time allows. She’s calling it Missy Raines & The New Hip, a play on words relating to her recent surgery – and the youth of her bandmates. They are working now on a debut CD project and some audio is available on their MySpace page, along with their limited tour schedule.
Jim will be dedicating some more time to teaching at workshops and clinics, and doing some duo shows with Steve Smith. Jim’s schedule is listed on his web site.
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Award-winning bassist Missy Raines is on tour this week in California with her band, The New Hip. This brief run to the west coast began yesterday (6/3) in Berkeley, and continues through the week with stops in Felton, San Deigo, Alta Dena and Culver City.
Their appearances are sporadic, due to Missy's...
Missy Raines has announced that she will leave her position as bass player with The Claire Lynch Band, her musical home for the past 12 years, to focus full-time on her own group, Missy Raines & The New Hip.
The band features Missy on bass with the assistance of Michael Wichter on resonator guitar,...
We told you a while back that Missy Raines was putting together a new band to play a few dates when she's not on the road with Claire Lynch.
The band's first performance is coming up the end of this month at the Down Home Pickin' Parlor in Johnson City, TN. The band will be performing both Friday...
Missy Raines wrote in this morning to offer some additional thanks she was unable to give during the award show last night due to time constraints. I've copied her comments below.
Dear folks,
I am so honored to have received the 2007 Bass Player of the Year award last night. I just wanted to say...
Missy Raines is in DC with her young touring band, the New Hip. They have a show this evening (3/9) in nearby Rockville, MD for the Institute of Musical Traditions, but will stop off this morning at the WAMU studios for some live music and conversation.
She will be on with Lee Michael Demsey's during...
Jason Thomas has joined The Claire Lynch Band, assuming the position on mandolin, fiddle and vocals recently vacated by David Harvey. He is a multinational award winner, having taken the top place in the Canadian Open Mandolin Championship and the Florida State Championships for both mandolin and fiddle...
News from Missy Raines & The New Hip...
Original guitarist Megan McCormick has departed to pursue a career in indie rock, and 17 year old Dillon Hodges - 2007 Winfield Flatpicking Champion - is stepping in.
Missy shares the mixed feelings that always accompany a personnel change.
"There's...
Missy Raines, seven-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year, has signed a multi-project deal with Compass Records, run by fellow IBMA Award winner Alison Brown and her husband, Garry West.
A new CD will be released on February 10, 2009, the first full-length CD Missy has recorded with her band, New Hip....
Missy Raines is one of those musicians who seems to defy all the laws of both nature and logic. How can someone be that small, and that good on such a large instrument? Why would a bass player front a band? She is exemplary at both these tasks.
Missy Raines & The New Hip is the name of that band...
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