Creepin’ up the Charts
The crew is pretty excited, because we moved up a few slots to #26 on BU’s national bluegrass DJ survey for June — check out the playlist and listen to the show. And now we’re #33, up from #35, in the top 50 for cashbox’s national roots survey of bluegrass music!
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Detour breaks onto the national charts!
Today came the news that our recording of Jeff’s “My Life Just Ain’t a Bluegrass Song” is #30 on the Bluegrass Unlimited National Survey for May 2010! So there we are, with some great company: Sam Bush, Lou Reid, The Grascals, Claire Lynch, the Gibson Brothers, Alecia Nugent, Adam Steffey… It’s quite [...]
Posted by admin under Uncategorized | Permalink | 2 Comments »Welcome, Missy!
Team Detour has added a new member! Singer and guitar player Missy Armstrong has joined up with the Detouristas, enriching our vocal lineup with her bluesy and soaring voice. The boys had jammed with Missy many times (including a knockout all-nighter with Back Country’s Janet Beazley and a crowd of great musicians at last [...]
Posted by admin under Uncategorized | Permalink | 2 Comments »Fun at the Fiddle
Thanks to all our fans who packed the Unitarian Universalist Church in East Lansing last Friday for our gig at the The Ten Pound Fiddle concert series! The band had a grand old time and we loved the chance to visit with friends from the Lansing area. The Fiddle is celebrating its 35th [...]
Posted by admin under Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments »The reviews are comin’ in!
Bluegrass music’s premier publication, Bluegrass Unlimited, reviews our CD The Road That Lies Ahead this month, and it looks like we pass muster! “An extremely good contemporary bluegrass recording,” they tell us — “one full of attractive arrangements, earcatching touches such as the upward vocal slide into the chorus of the title cut, sharp [...]
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