The Bluegrass Standard - September 2021

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CHART-TOPPING SONGS FROM THE ROAD KEEPS THE CREATIVE WHEELS TURNING

road that his band, formed back in 2004, was named after a collection of music he’d written while touring with another outfit. That new band Humphrey assembled -almost two decades ago now -- is called Songs From the Bass player and Grammy Road. Award-winning songwriter Charles R. Humphrey III is On the day Humphrey spoke prolific in coming up with new to us, the group’s single, music. He once wrote so much “Amarillo Blue,” was sitting in stuff when he was out on the the number one spot on the

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Bluegrass Today charts and had been there for five weeks. These guys are no strangers to this type of chart-topping success...their “Outside of Omaha” also went to number one. Now, with a five-album catalog of music and another album in the hopper, this Newgrass ensemble had gotten to where they were performing over 200 shows a year before COVID-19 arrived to throw a monkey wrench


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