Lonesome River Band’s New Album
Mayhayley’s House
Mayhayley’s House
Dedicated to Georgia’s “Oracle of the Ages”
(Mountain Home Music Co.)
Arden, NC (June 23, 2017) — After
35 years of releasing hit after hit, Lonesome River Band is back with yet another
stellar project. Their new album Mayhayley’s House is out today on
Mountain Home Music Company. It is available for purchase and streaming at many outlets
including iTunes where it is a featured release on the Country music home page.
35 years of releasing hit after hit, Lonesome River Band is back with yet another
stellar project. Their new album Mayhayley’s House is out today on
Mountain Home Music Company. It is available for purchase and streaming at many outlets
including iTunes where it is a featured release on the Country music home page.
Mayhayley’s
House is dedicated to Mayhayley Lancaster, a self-proclaimed “Oracle of the Ages” who handed out “readings” and personal predictions at
her home in southwest Georgia’s Heard County. She was a quintessential southern
woman seer, a well-known lawyer, political activist, midwife and teacher until
her death in 1955. Folks would come to
her house, pay her “a dollar and a dime” for a reading—to find lost items,
predict the future, even to solve crimes. She would also dabble in local
politics, lawyering, and farming. Most of all she represented the stout
hardiness of independent backwoods folk that sustained traditions and
distrusted the encroachment of modern ways. It was rumored, for instance, that
what money she had was buried in multiple plots somewhere on her property.
Lonesome River
Band, the bluegrass tinkers of tradition, dedicate this album to Mayhayley; to its
fans; and, to people who understand that traditions once lost are rarely
recovered.
House is dedicated to Mayhayley Lancaster, a self-proclaimed “Oracle of the Ages” who handed out “readings” and personal predictions at
her home in southwest Georgia’s Heard County. She was a quintessential southern
woman seer, a well-known lawyer, political activist, midwife and teacher until
her death in 1955. Folks would come to
her house, pay her “a dollar and a dime” for a reading—to find lost items,
predict the future, even to solve crimes. She would also dabble in local
politics, lawyering, and farming. Most of all she represented the stout
hardiness of independent backwoods folk that sustained traditions and
distrusted the encroachment of modern ways. It was rumored, for instance, that
what money she had was buried in multiple plots somewhere on her property.
Lonesome River
Band, the bluegrass tinkers of tradition, dedicate this album to Mayhayley; to its
fans; and, to people who understand that traditions once lost are rarely
recovered.
Tracks and
songwriters include:
songwriters include:
- Wrong Road
Again (Allen Reynolds) - As Lonesome As I Am (Matt Lindsey, Shawn
Camp) - Mayhayley’s House (Adam Wright)
- Old Coyote Town (Larry E. Boone, Gene
Nelson, Paul Nelson, Jr.) - Blackbirds And Crows (Don Humphries)
- Ida Red (Arr. Lost and Found, PD)
- Diggin’ (Eli Johnston, Kevin McKinnon)
- As The Crow Flies (Melba Montgomery,
Billy Wayne Yates) - Lonesome Bone (Curtis Wright)
- Think I’m Gonna Be Alright (Robert J.
Gateley) - It Feels Real Good Goin’ Down (Shawn
Camp) - Hickory Hollow Times and County News
(Matthew Lindsey, Herb McCullough) - Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (PD,
arr. Mike Hartgrove, Jesse Smathers)
Lonesome River
Band’s 35th Anniversary tour is in full swing with the band
performing songs from this new Mountain Home Music Co. release. Summer tour dates include:
Band’s 35th Anniversary tour is in full swing with the band
performing songs from this new Mountain Home Music Co. release. Summer tour dates include:
- June 23-24 – Hosting RudyFest in Grayson, KY
- June 29 – Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival ,
Conway, MO - July 1 – Bon Aqua BluegrassFest, Bon Aqua, TN
- July 8 – Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival,
Murfreesboro, TN - July 9 – Sugarloaf Mountain Amphitheatre,
Chillicothe, OH - July 14 – Wayside Bluegrass Festival, Stuart, VA
- July 19 – Musicians Against Childhood Cancer,
Lockbourne, OH - Aug 2 – Pickin’ in the Parsons, Parsons, WV
- Aug 3 – Milan Bluegrass Festival, Milan, MI
- Aug 5 – Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival,
Hyden, KY - Aug 12 – Les Chateaux De Sable Des Iles,
Magdalen Islands Canada - Aug 18 – Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival,
Gettysburg, PA
Sammy Shelor, a five-time International
Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Banjo Player of the Year, Virginia Country
Music Hall of Famer, and winner of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in
Banjo and Bluegrass, leads the group that is constantly breaking new ground in
acoustic music. With two stellar lead vocalists, Brandon Rickman (guitar) Jesse
Smathers (mandolin), and the impressive talents of Mike Hartgrove (fiddle) and
Barry Reed (bass), the band seamlessly comes together, performing the trademark
sound that fans continue to embrace.
For more information on Lonesome River Band,
visit lonesomeriverband.com and follow them on Instagram/LonesomeRiverBand,
Twitter.com/LonesomeRiverB and Facebook.
visit lonesomeriverband.com and follow them on Instagram/LonesomeRiverBand,
Twitter.com/LonesomeRiverB and Facebook.
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