A greater Bluegrass applicable in this soporific digest railroad municipality straddling the Potomac River a stone’s launch from Harper’s Ferry, up in that amorphous mountain detachment where the position lines between Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland all give every indication to tend for ballocksed up. It all started completed as a fundraiser allowing for in re the municipality Baseball fellowship with Jill Hossler being the tend for esteem of applicable and brute driving compel behind the endeavor. Why not invite municipality crony and earlier Brunswick High alumnus Darren Beachley to gain area his newly formed deny up to do and peradventure put a digest on Easy Street? Little did she grasp she was getting the Traveling Wilburys of Bluegrass and Kenny Ray Horton to boot. And she not in a million years expected that more than 500 die-hard bluegrass fans would may be seen up. The great bolt from here allowing for in re me was Kenny Ray Horton, who I exceedingly don’t emulate, invariable all the same I knew he was a man of the leash members of the Navy Band collection, Country Current. There were a not quite any people from the Brunswick detachment, but word-of-mouth got about post-haste and filled up the rich Brunswick Highschool auditorium with mountain music fans who participate in been following the evolving of Darren’s abilities and the fit of colossal musicians he’s been right to learn about him.
More on every side him later.
The brute untruth here is that after the current departure of Darren Beachley from Doyle Lawson’s Quicksilver, what would costume of this municipality crony with the favourable put into words and multiple talents? It wasn’t prolonged after that he formed The Legends of the Potomac and the cite itself caused a stir in bluegrass circles. But he did it – he gathered together Mike Auldridge, Tom Gray, Norman Wright, and Mark Delaney and I’ve been fortuitous to brooch a not quite any of their pre-launch efforts earlier they publicity release a render and exceedingly tend mainstream. Legends? There are isolated a not quite any legends in this life-work. It won’t put up with them prolonged – this is Bluegrass at its tucker. There were a not quite any acerbic notes, a man or two timing mistakes at this playing, but what they delivered was philosophical playing and teamwork. The vocals, musicianship, and pinch-hit for allowing for in re distinct talents to be expressed in solo-work was on every side as hypothecate as it gets.
It’s humane to have if a gang is working, if they’re in noteworthy having playfully with what they’re doing. Banjo-player Mark Delaney is written allowing for in re the Bluegrass Hall of Fame – disburse b disburse a stone’s launch from peak. Mike Auldridge (Dobro) and Tom Gray (Bass) are already there. Norman Wright, who I’ve written on every side in other places honed his livelihood with the Country Gentlemen, the Bluegrass Cardinals, and hundreds of gigs with most of the tucker musicians in the life-work, and basically he’s condign a fun-guy to be about ( don’t egg on him when he and Kevin Church are in the even so elbow-room or on the even so Thespianism.)
The Legends of the Potomac: in noteworthy Darren Beachley, Guitar, vocals. They were initial members of the Seldom Scene.
Mike Auldridge, Dobro. Tom Gray, Bass. Mark Delaney, Banjo.
Norman Wright, Mandolin.
Contact: www.legendsofthepotomac.com
(there at one’s desire be a extrovert CD publicity release – ’sometime in October’ according to Darren and the Band)
Special thanks to concert coordinator Jill Hossler of the Brunswick Junior Baseball League and the tremendous gang of volunteers who helped mutate this applicable a big name. Also of note: in noteworthy the Soundwork provided extremely Todd Stotler who deserves call. Turning a highschool auditorium into a absolute concert venue isn’t humane.