As the IBMA World of Bluegrass begins, I have lots to report: First of all, the first single from our upcoming CD on Rebel Records has been released. It’s called “Final Farewell”, and it’s available on the bluegrass single compilation CD “New Cuts of Bluegrass”. Radio stations may also download a CD quality version from Airplay Direct. We have a link on the home page, but here it is again: http://airplaydirect.com/music/ChrisJonesandtheNightDrivers/
Also, any DJs that would like to receive some audio clips of me talking briefly about the song, just email me at my management email address: dmaartists@comcast.net and request the audio clips.
Now for everyone else, you’ll have to request the song of your favourite DJ, because the song will not be available for public download until the CD is released. Our CD, which will be a compilation of some of our best Rebel material through the years, plus new tracks, was originally going to be titled “Not a Tribute to Bill Monroe” (kidding), but finally we settled on “Lost Souls and Free Spirits”. We chose this to honor our friend, the late Harley Allen. It’s a line from one of his songs, “A Train That Never Slows Down”, which will be included on the CD
The next 2 weeks will be action packed, to say the least. I’ll give you the final update on our World of Bluegrass activities in my next post.
A note about the new Bluegrass Blog launch: The Bluegrass Blog is undergoing a total revamping and will be called Bluegrass Today. Some IT trouble (that I would never understand, since I don’t actually know what “IT” stands for) delayed the initial launch, but now they say it should be up and running by Friday the 23rd. It looks like it’s going to be a really good site and a great source of bluegrass information. I’m excited that I’m going to be contributing a weekly column for them too. I should have something there on the first day. If you go to www.thebluegrassblog.com, you’ll be redirected to the site.
More news soon about the IBMA and our upcoming Italian tour.
Chris
