Cherryholmes has announced the winners in a contest we told you about in late May, drawn from customers who pre-ordered a copy of their new CD, Cherryholmes II - Black and White, from their web site.

The grand prize of a Bourgeois Country Boy guitar was won by Mark Coffee of Penrose, CO. Other winners received Cherryholmes CDs, T-shirts and autographed posters.

You can see the complete list of winners on the band’s web site.

Skaggs Family Records has indicated that June 12 is the official release date for the long awaited sophomore release from Cherryholmes on their label. The CD has been promoted for some time with the title, Cherryholmes II, but as you can see from the CD cover, it has both that and Black And White displayed in text.

There are no audio samples up yet on the Cherryholmes site, but we’ll be sure to update when we find them.

Advance orders are being accepted now on the band’s web site, and all online pre-orders will be entered in a prize drawing to coincide with the project’s release. The grand prize winner will receive a brand new Bourgeois Country Boy guitar, with other winners getting strings, posters, T-shirts or CDs.

For all you guitar lovers out there, Pantheon Guitars has recently announced a new model. The Bourgeois BK Slope D features premium bearclaw Sitka spruce top, figured mahogany back and sides, brazilian rosewood headstock, fretboard, bridge and bridge plate, and Adirondack spruce bracing. Additional features include ivoroid binding, snakehead headstock, 1 23/32″ nut width, ebony bridge pins, Nickel/Ivoroid Waverly tuners and a natural finish.

The first 30 guitars will be signed and numbered by Bryan Sutton and Dana Bourgeois.

Dana Bourgeois says:

The BK Slope D has a deep, broad tone. Through wood selection and voicing, we push it in the direction of a bigger bottom end, a “lush” top end, and greater volume, similar to the characteristics of Bryan’s original BK. When I first started making slope shouldered Dreadnoughts, I went for something as different as possible from the balanced and focused sound of my standard Dreadnought. The Banjo Killer gets me back to that original idea.

Bryan Sutton says:

From the first time I played the Slope-D Bourgeois that would come to be known as the “Banjo Killer”, I was amazed at the range of tone and volume the guitar could produce. The guitar always seems to be to able to handle any dynamic level of play. I can hear the guitar clearly in a loud jam session without feeling like I have to overplay and also enjoy a full and sustained tone when I want to play softly. Dana has recaptured that magic with the new BK model.

List price for the new BK Slope D is $4195.

For more information visit PantheonGuitars.com

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