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Check out an interview with Chris and Janet by Bob Webster on www.bluegrasscountry.org this week. It was recorded last month before a concert at the famous Lucketts Old Schoolhouse Concert in Lucketts, VA, and will air throughout this week. Check their website for times. ****** We toured Florida up to Maryland after IBMA this year. This is the Castillo de San Marcos National Park in St. Augustine, Florida, where Chris was a tour guide in the 1980s. As part of our ongoing Backcountry Tour of America we'll try to present a different national or state park every month. more tour photos ****** We're finishing up the Eric Uglums & Sons, Austin Ward and Christian Ward album and it will be available in early January. I'll send out another email when it's available and for sale from our website. And we finished a project for CMH Records, A Pickin' On Jack Johnson CD. We'll let you know when that's available from CMH too! ****** We'll be teaching at a number of bluegrass and banjo camps in 2007. Here's where we'll be, so make those reservations now! April 9-13, 2007 June 1 - 3, 2007 July 29 - August 3, 2007 August 20 - 31, 2007 September 7 -9, 2007 |
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Janet's CD fell off the Bluegrass Unlimited chart after nine months, but it was quite a run. It's still for sale, though!
Dale Ann Bradley has also recorded a great version on her new album "Catch Tomorrow" on Compass Records. |
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Please consider buying CDs or Songbooks or caps or t-shirts for the Holidays! |
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Backcountry is not just a band name. We're involved with raising awareness of the needs of the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation. Please take some time to visit a National Park and contribute to causes that support the preservation of the American wilderness and historical sites. |
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Sitings Along the Mysterious Road:
• Salt Run - We played recently in St. Augustine, Florida, and I got to visit with the members of the first bluegrass band I was in, Salt Run--Jim Quine, David Dowling, and Tommy Mechling. It was a great reunion and amazingly, none of us had aged at all. . . ! And it was great to see Dale Gilliland Child again and doing so well; and Liz and Lon Williamson and hear them play at the Creekside Dinery in St. Augustine. If you want some great North Florida Low Country cuisine, stop by there. And always be sure to catch Liz and Lon playing, and also David Dowling at the Milltop. It was great seeing all those old friends again! It's still my favorite place on earth. It was also great to visit with David Dowling and Don Oja-Dunaway (who wrote "Kennesaw Line" one my favorite songs that Claire Lynch and others have recorded) at the Milltop and reminisce about the great Gamble Rogers, who's been gone from us far too long, fifteen years now. If you've never heard Gamble's songs and stories, you need to. And also go to the Gamble Rogers Festival in St. Augustine, Florida. He was one of the most brilliant and beloved musicians and songwriters America's produced. |
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We're happy endorsers of D'Addario strings--the best strings in the universe. |
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Tour News See recent tour pictures here: Upcoming Tour Dates - We hope to see you! Fri/Sun, January 19/21, 2007 Sat, January 20, 2007 Fri, February 16, 2007 Sat, February 17, 2007 Sun, February 18, 2007
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As I mentioned above, we're finishing up on the Eric Uglum & Austin and Christian Ward album. If you liked Eric's Shenandoah Wind CD, you'll love this one! And we finished the project for CMH records, a Pickin' On album covering songs by the pop artist Jack Johnson. We'll let you know when it will be available. And I swear I'm still working on a podcast! |
| Thanks and stay in touch! chris@chrisstuart.com |