There’s a brand new bluegrass band recently formed in east Tennessee that is sure to please anyone who enjoys solid, traditional bluegrass music.
Named simply The Tennessee Bluegrass Band, this quintet features some of the brightest lights among our music’s youth movement, already seasoned pros while still in their twenties. Regular readers of Sonny Osborne’s Friday column, Ask Sonny Anything, will have seen a first mention of this bunch earlier this month. He described them thusly:
“These 5 people have just begun, and in my opinion, are going to be heard from on a major scale. They are that good. The Tennessee Bluegrass Band.”
The group was mostly formed months ago to be Carolina Blue, after the departure of founding member Timmy Jones. His co-founder, Bobby Powell, had intended to maintain the band with new members, and himself on bass, but extenuating circumstances have resulted in Powell not being able to see the plan through. This was to have included existing Carolina Blue fiddler, Aynsley Porchak, with Lincoln Hensley on banjo, John Meador on guitar, and Tim Laughlin on mandolin.
This new lineup for Carolina Blue was announced to some fanfare -.a crack band, assembled and rehearsed, consisting of musicians who depend on performing for their livelihood, and who had come to be friends who enjoyed not only each other’s company, but the music they were producing as well – the new Tennessee Bluegrass Band.
Check out this video: https://youtu.be/lODWEzdkUcY