On the heels of IBMA week, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have announced a new association with The Harper Agency, who will represent the group for Church shows and Christian music events.

Doyle’s secular shows and bluegrass festival appearances will continue to be booked by The Paradigm Agency.

Lawson also reports that their brand new, official Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver bandanas are now available, and should be up on his web site later this week. No festival getup is complete without one!

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver has a new member. Corey Hensley has come aboard singing tenor and playing guitar.

Corey is a native West Virginian who has played and sung bluegrass and Gospel music since he was a young boy. He spent time on bass with Change Of Heart, a Southern Gospel group, and more recently with Jim & Valerie Gabeheart, a bluegrass Gospel band. Like so many talented bluegrass artists, Hensley is also proficient on banjo and guitar.

Doyle, however, brought him to the band for his clear, powerful voice. He debuted with Quicksilver this past weekend.

A family man at heart, Corey had previously resisted offers to perform full time, but I suppose that Doyle can be very persuasive.

National Public Radio has posted the audio online from the recent Mountain Stage performances by Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and The Lovell Sisters. They both appeared on the show earlier this month, along with Steve Earle, Sara Watkins and King Wilkie.

Doyle’s set featured songs from his current Rounder CD, Lonely Street, plus a couple of their all-time favorites like Blue Train. The music is great as always, and the audio engineer actually discovered the banjo after a few songs.

The Lovells’ segment is also made up from material on their latest CD, Time To Grow, a self-produced effort that marked their shift from a teen act to a group of serious young musicians. Jessica Lovell spoke to us at length last year about the travails they experienced in getting it released, and what led them to reject a major label contract with a glidepath to mainstream pop success.

You can read that interview on The Bluegrass Blog.

The Sara Watkins set from Mountain Stage is also available online.

Here is the final webisode in the Ask Doyle series, with Doyle Lawson talking about what keeps him going after so many years as a professional bluegrass entertainer.

This will be the last Q&A video with Doyle answering questions from fans. The next video will go the other way – Doyle will have trivia questions for everyone who has watched these episodes, with prizes going to folks who can answer them.

If you’ve watched all 8 videos, you’ll know the correct responses. Winners will receive autographed copies of Lonely Street, other Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver merchandise, and one lucky winner will get a personal phone call from Doyle himself.