Steep Canyon Rangers New Album RADIO Out Today

Grammy Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers' music video for "Radio" premiered recently at Paste, and you can check it out below! "Radio" is the title track from the band's highly-anticipated upcoming album produced by Jerry Douglas (John Oates, Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck). RADIO will be released today, August 28, on Rounder Records and can be ordered via iTunes and Amazon.

In addition, the acclaimed bluegrass band is currently in the midst of a nationwide U.S. tour including dates in New York City, Washington, DC, Boulder, CO, Nashville, TN, Charleston, SC and Raleigh, NC. Known for their extensive touring and widely praised for their live performances, the band plays 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. See below for full tour 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). RADIO is their 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:

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 27 /// Louisville, KY /// Headliners Music Hall

August 29 /// Galax, VA /// The Blue Ridge Music Center

September 11-13 /// Brevard, NC /// Mountain Song Festival

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 6 /// Dallas, TX /// Frontiers of Flight Museum

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

November 12 /// Rockland, ME /// The Strand Theatre

December 4-5 /// Charlotte, NC /// The Neighborhood Theatre

December 12 /// Chapel Hill, NC /// Memorial Hall - UNC

*appearing with Steve Martin and Martin Short
†appearing with Steve Martin
§appearing with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra

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