Audie Blaylock & Redline

Audie Blaylock & Redline, Audie Blaylock and Redline | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rural Rhythm
• ASIN: B001MIG22E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,451 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

In 1982, at age 19, AUDIE BLAYLOCK joined Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys and spent nine years on the road leaning he craft of bluegrass from one of the music s first generation legends.

Since then, AUDIE BLAYLOCK has received a multitude of honors and awards including: IBMA Entertainer of the Year (with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage); Male Vocalist nomination; IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year (with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper featuring Audie Blaylock); a Grammy® nomination for Best Bluegrass Album and an IBMA nomination for Recorded Event of the Year for "A Tribute to Jimmy Martin: The King of Bluegrass;" and Emerging Artist of the Year nominations.

Bluegrass veteran AUDIE BLAYLOCK selected all the songs on his debut Rural Rhythm Records album to showcase the blended harmonies and masterful instrumentation of these young musicians in REDLINE. They present their first album together the same way they delight their audiences at their live shows...with excitement and high energy.

Fans young and old have been anxiously awaiting this important new album from AUDIE BLAYLOCK and his new group REDLINE which includes some of the hottest young pickers in Bluegrass music today !

This self titled album, AUDIE BLAYLOCK and REDLINE contains the first single Lonesome Weary Heart which has charted on Sirius and XM Radio, Bluegrass Music Profiles and Bluegrass Unlimited has something for everyone with varying tempos, vocal duets, a solo in Lonely River and an acapella quartet Who ll Sing For Me?

The musical styles range from traditional bluegrass to gospel to country such as My Darling s Last Goodbye and Ernest Tubb s My Blue Eyed Darling . Highlights include Goodbye , the gospel song written by Jimmy Martin and Paul Williams, Whispering Waters , Two Lonely Hearts , Roll On Blues , Mountain Laurel In Bloom and Send Me Your Address From Heaven .

"Audie Blaylock is one of the true standard-bearers for traditional bluegrass music. With his superb vocals and top-flight musicianship, few performers can claim the feeling and sensitivity he has for the best traditions of the music and the understanding to move it forward to the next level." - Kyle Cantrell (XM Radio's Bluegrass Junction)

"No holds barred, take no prisoners, hard driving bluegrass, just the way I like it." Terry Herd (Bluegrass Radio Network)

With a 2009 tour schedule that includes two international tours and solid radio airplay, along with audiences anxiously awaiting its release, this new album is poised for success!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stellar album of hard-charging bluegrass, January 27, 2009

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This review is from: Audie Blaylock & Redline (Audio CD)

Not being a bluegrass aficionado, I always find myself cataloging the quintessential elements in my head: banjo, check; fiddle, check; mandolin, acoustic bass, and guitar, check, check and check; high-tight harmonies, ballads and hot-picking, check, check and check. And it's right about that last check that I start to get the feel of a bluegrass record, sinking into its joys and loneliness, sensing the country roots beneath the Kabuki-like constrictions laid down by the genre's founders. The checklist comes to life with harmonies squeezing out tears and musicianship advancing from a display of expertise to an emotional outpouring. And so it was with Blaylock's second album as a group leader, his first release for Rural Rhythm.

Blaylock's played with Jimmy Martin and Rhonda Vincent, is a four-time nominee for IBMA guitar player of the year award, and an IBMA instrumental group award winner with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper. His band is a quartet of young hotshots who dazzle listeners with their instrumental prowess and surround Blaylock with old-soul harmony singing. Though the group can sing traditional high-low duets, it's the four-part harmonies, such as the a cappella gospel "Who'll Sing For Me?" that really show what they can do. Blaylock's selected songs from country, gospel and bluegrass, emphasizing up-tempo fiddle and banjo tunes, but providing balance with ballads and mid-tempo waltzes. The band's high-energy tunes are sure-fire festival favorites, but it's the ballads you'll savor.

Blaylock opens Lester Flatt's tearful "My Darling's Last Goodbye" with a plaintive solo vocal before finding comforting harmony on the chorus, and the call-and-response of Jimmy Martin's "Goodbye" provides the warmest of send-offs to the hereafter. Better yet are the rich harmonies that underline the wishful memories of Roy Acuff's "My Blue Eyed Darling." The album's upbeat tunes harbor dark tales of cheating lovers, estranged affection, suicidal thoughts and death, and are sweetened with chipper harmonies and energized picking. Blaylock's a fine vocalist with ears that are superbly tuned for both fetching material and extremely talented accompanists. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]