Steep Canyon Rangers to Release New Album RADIO This August

Grammy Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers' highly anticipated new album, RADIO, will be released August 28 on Rounder Records and can now be pre-ordered via Amazon. Produced by Jerry Douglas (John Oates, Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck), the album's title track premieres today on The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog. Of the track, The Wall Street Journal comments, "Led by bright fiddle and tight, interlocking harmony vocals, the track is a wide-eyed tribute to the magic of discovering music over the airwaves, with sly references to other songs salted into the lyrics." Stream the song and read the piece here: on.wsj.com/1GLaTft. In addition, the band is currently in the midst of a widespread U.S. tour including dates in Telluride, CO, Boulder, CO, Charleston, SC, Raleigh, NC, New York City and Washington, DC. See below for complete details.

The Steep Canyon Rangers are Woody Platt (guitar), Graham Sharp (banjo), Charles R. Humphrey III (bass), Mike Guggino (mandolin), Nicky Sanders (fiddle) and Mike Ashworth (box kit). Known for touring extensively and widely praised for their performances, the acclaimed bluegrass band performs between 125 and 150 dates per year, including tours they share with actor/comedian and respected banjo player Steve Martin and esteemed singer-songwriter Edie Brickell.

RADIO is Steep Canyon Rangers' ninth studio album and was recorded with Douglas at Asheville, NC's Echo Mountain Recording Studio. The album comprises twelve all-original bluegrass/ Americana tracks written by Sharp, Humphrey, Platt and Guggino in varying degrees, including a few co-writes with fellow musicians from the folk world such as Phil Barker of the Carolina bluegrass band Town Mountain.

RADIO follows Steep Canyon Rangers' 2013 release, Tell The Ones I Love, which Bluegrass Today praised as "...a great mixture of today's bluegrass styles, excellent harmonies, and a few surprises...an excellent album...The Steep Canyon Rangers have delivered another winner, and their fans are sure to be pleased." Ed Helms' The Bluegrass Situation asserted, "It's an exquisite recording, a wonderful marriage of their talent and work ethic, and Larry Campbell's remarkable intuition." Previously, their 2012 release, Nobody Knows You, was presented the Grammy Award for "Best Bluegrass Album." The band has also been nominated for and won multiple awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including Entertainers of the Year in 2011 for their work with Steve Martin.

Continuously involved with the community and charitable organizations, Steep Canyon Rangers' annual Mountain Song Festival, which benefits the Boys and Girls Club of Transylvania County, will celebrate its 10th Anniversary this year, kicking off with an inaugural Steep Canyon 50 K & Relay Ultra Run on September 10th. Additionally, the band has entered a partnership with Oskar Blues Brewery and their CAN'd Aid Foundation as well as SevenBar Aviation and their affiliated hospital foundations.

RADIO TRACK LIST:

1. Radio
2. Diamonds In The Dust
3. Simple Is Me
4. Blow Me Away
5. Blue Velvet Rain
6. Looking Glass
7. Down That Road Again
8. Break
9. Wasted
10. Long Summer
11. When The Well Runs Dry
12. Monumental Fool

STEEP CANYON RANGERS' CONFIRMED TOUR DATES:

June 18 /// Arvada, CO /// Arvada Center
June 20 /// Telluride, CO /// Telluride Bluegrass Festival
June 20 /// Telluride, CO /// Sheridan Opera House
June 27 /// Rochester, NY /// Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater
June 28 /// Earlville, NY /// Earlville Opera House
June 30 /// Brevard, NC /// Brevard Music Center†
July 3 /// Saskatoon, Saskatchewan /// Saskatchewan Jazz Festival
July 10 /// San Antonio, TX /// Majestic Theatre‡
July 11 /// Thackerville, OK /// WinStar World Casino‡
July 16 /// Boothbay Harbor, ME /// The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
July 17 /// Junction, VT /// Freight House Hall
July 18 /// Oak Hill, NY /// Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival
July 23 /// Cockeysville, MD /// Oregon Ridge Park
July 24 /// Jim Thorpe, PA /// Penn's Peak
July 25 /// Lewisburg, WV /// Lewisburg Music Festival
July 26 /// Calgary, Alberta /// Calgary Folk Festival
July 27 /// Lyons, CO /// Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
July 28 /// Boulder, CO /// eTown Hall
July 29 /// Vail, CO /// Vail Summer Bluegrass Series
July 30 /// Ridgway, CO /// Ridgway Town Park
July 31 /// Pueblo, CO /// Runyon Theater
August 1 /// Keystone, CO /// Keystone Bluegrass & Beer Festival
August 19 /// Livermore, CA /// Wente Vineyards*
August 20 /// Rohnert Park, CA /// Sonoma State University*
August 26 /// Nashville, TN /// City Winery
August 29 /// Galax, VA /// The Blue Ridge Music Center
September 4 /// St. Paul, MN /// A Prairie Home Companion
September 17 /// Ottawa, Ontario /// CityFolk
September 20 /// Flagstaff, AZ /// Pickin' in the Pines
September 24 /// Morehead City, NC /// The Morehead Center
September 25 /// Manteo, NC /// Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival
September 26 /// Charleston, SC /// The North Charleston Performance Arts Center#
September 27 /// Doswell, VA /// State Fair of Virginia
October 2 /// Raleigh, NC /// Wide Open Bluegrass
October 12 /// New York, NY /// The Bowery Ballroom
October 15 /// Florence, SC /// Uptown Ballroom at the Florence Civic Center
October 16-17 /// Live Oak, FL /// Magnolia Music Festival
October 23-24 /// Washington, DC /// Kennedy Center Concert Hall*
October 28 /// Boone, NC /// Legends (Appalachian State)
October 29 /// Winston-Salem, NC /// Ziggy's
November 7 /// Kingston, RI /// University of Rhode Island
December 4-5 /// Charlotte, NC /// The Neighborhood Theatre
December 12 /// Chapel Hill, NC /// Memorial Hall - UNC

*appearing with Steve Martin †appearing with the Brevard Symphonia
‡appearing with Steve Martin and Martin Short
#appearing with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra

To post a comment, you must register and login.