LIFE GOES ON by Musicians Against Childhood Cancer® Debuts on Billboard’s Top 10 Bluegrass Album Chart
Album and Numerous Tracks are Candidates for Nomination for the
2012 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards
was recorded at Randy Kohrs’ Slack Key Studio in Nashville, TN. The
label recently released a new video of the song that can be viewed on
the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer website BluegrassClassic.com
Yesterday, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) released the second of three ballots for the 2012 IBMA awards and LIFE GOES ON plus numerous tracks are candidates for nomination for
some of the top awards including Song of the Year, Album of the Year,
along with three in the Recorded Event of the Year category:
Song of the Year – “Life Goes On”
Album of the Year – LIFE GOES ON
Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year – “Beyond The Sunset”
Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, Josh Swift
Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year – “Manzanita”
Tony Rice, Josh Williams, Aaron Ramsey, Aubrey Haynie, Rob Ickes
Recorded Event of the Year – “Beyond The Sunset”
Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, Josh Swift
Recorded Event of the Year – “Life Goes On”
Carl Jackson, Ronnie Bowman, Larry Cordle, Jerry Salley, Rickey
Wasson, Randy Kohrs, D.A. Adkins, Garnet Bowman, Lynn Butler, Ashley
Kohrs, Gary Payne, Dale Pyatt, Clay Hess, Alan Bibey, Jay Weaver, Ron
Stewart, Jim VanCleve
Recorded Event of the Year – “Old Violin”
Larry Cordle and Michael Cleveland
The album also includes even more top musicians
with the talents of: Lonesome River Band, Russell Moore & IIIrd
Tyme Out, Marty Raybon & Full Circle, Shawn Camp, Rhonda Vincent
& The Rage, The Grascals, Johnson Mountain Boys, J. D. Crowe &
The New South, Gibson Brothers, Pine Mountain Railroad, Lost &
Found, Bradley Walker, New Found Road, Michael Cleveland and Flame
Keeper, Junior Sisk, Josh Williams Band, David Parmley & Continental
Divide, Paul Williams, The SteelDrivers, Chris Stapleton, Morgane
Hayes, Sierra Hull & Highway 111, Sally Connell, Dudley Connell, Don
Rigsby, Blue Highway, Joe Mullins, Aubry Hayine, Kenny & Amanda
Smith, Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, James King, Larry Stephenson,
and many more.
Darrel
and Phyllis Adkins founded Musicians Against Childhood Cancer in honor
of their daughter, Mandy who lost her battle with cancer on November 25,
2000. Proceeds from the annual festival and album benefit St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. For more information
on Musicians Against Childhood Cancer, please visit their website at BluegrassClassic.com
This
new 2 CD set is available for available through all digital vendors
including iTunes, Amazon and more, along with physical CD purchase at
Amazon, County Sales, Ernest Tubb Records Shops, the Musicians Against
Childhood Cancer website, Rural Rhythm Records, directly through the
participating artists and many more locations. For more information on
Rural Rhythm Records, please visit RuralRhythm.com.
