Happy New Year!
The Night Drivers and I have a few weeks off the road, but there’s lots going on. For one thing, our pre-release single, “Final Farewell” has hit #1 on the new weekly airplay chart published by Bluegrass Today: http://bluegrasstoday/chart Employing the hard-to-get business strategy that had made us all thousandaires, the single is unavailable right now, even for download. Truthfully, this has to do with the distributor, and we wish it was otherwise, but Rebel Records has given me assurance that it will be downloadable within a couple of weeks.
The whole album, “Lost Souls and Free Spirits”, which is a remastered “best-of” collection with some new material, will be available for purchase in hard copy form by early February, and there will be a world premiere of the whole project on Sirius XM’s Bluegrass Junction on January 25th on “Track-by-Track”.
If you check our tour dates page, we have added new dates in Minnesota and Virginia, and you’ll see that we have an album release party for the CD in Nashville at The Station Inn on February 9th.
In other news: Ned Luberecki has returned from spending the post-Christmas and New Years holidays in London, England. Check Bluegrass Junction to see if he acquired a British accent while he was there.
We celebrated the end of “The Year of Bill Monroe” with a special 6-hour “Truegrass” in his honor. Below is a photo of me broadcasting on Sirius XM, wearing a shirt that was actually owned and worn by Bill Monroe in honor of his birthday. January 6th is Earl Scruggs’ birthday (and the day of Epiphany), so I’ll have some extra music from Earl on this weekend’s “Truegrass” (Friday, 3PM eastern, Sunday, 6PM eastern).
