Celebrate a wonderful, fall weekend with Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, as the award-winning bluegrass band presents some FREE fiddle-playing and flag-waving around the Buckeye State! Frequent performers on the Grand Ole Opry, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers are happy to join Mike DeWine, Republican candidate for Ohio Governor, as Mike and Jon Husted fight for an Ohio that works for everyone when DeWine is elected governor on November 6th. These three, FREE “Red, White & Bluegrass” shows will take place at the following locations:
Enjoy three, FREE bluegrass concerts, along with an opportunity to hear from Mike DeWine, currently the Ohio Attorney General, in Fairfield, Troy, and Marsyville. We will see you soon for a “Red, White and Bluegrass” weekend! Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers Presents New Focus Track from Hit Album, The Story We Tell10/1/2018 "Songs That'll Get 'Em" Available to Radio Now - Band Wins IBMA Song of the Year, Gives Stellar Awards Performance Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers and Rebel Records are excited to present the band's newest focus track from their hit album, The Story We Tell. Penned by prominent song-smith Gerald Evans, "Songs That'll Get 'Em" is available to radio now and has become a mantra of the band known for presenting songs with a message world-wide for the last 12 years. The Story We Tell, released August 2017, is the band's sixth album and most successful to date, having debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top Ten Albums chart (9/9/17) and remaining on the National Bluegrass Survey's Top 15 Albums chart 13 consecutive months. With such an accomplished album to their credit, "Songs That'll Get 'Em" will be the fourth focus track from the project, a first in the band's history of recording. Of "Songs That'll Get 'Em," Joe Mullins says, "This song hits a few familiar themes that always inspire us; cars, mother, Kentucky, true love, Jesus, and eternity. But it does so in a very unique way, allowing the singer and the audience to make a personal connection. That's the goal each time we go on stage or in the recording studio!" The band is fresh off a stellar performance during the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards held just last night in Raleigh, NC as part of a week long conference and music festival. JMRR performed their hit song, "If I'd Have Wrote That Song," penned by Larry Cordle, Larry Shell, and James Silvers. Later in the evening, they won their first ever Song of the Year award for the same title. Radio programmers may download "Songs That'll Get 'Em" via AirplayDirect. Consumers may purchase the The Story We Tell through iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon or direct from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers at www.radioramblers.com. We are so very excited to tell you that we have received THREE IBMA Awards Nominations this year! In addition to our 3rd nomination for Gospel Recorded Performance, we've received our FIRST ever nomination for Album of the Yearand Song of the Year! WOW! We are so grateful to all of you who have supported us so fervently over the last 12 years. It's been an exciting year and we can't wait to see what lies ahead. One thing we know for sure - we'll be seeing YOU in Raleigh, NC for IBMA's World of Bluegrass in September! On July 25th, we traveled to Nashville, TN to conduct a little business. We were so honored to perform on the Grand Ole Opry again and visit with dear friends we've made since making our debut appearance on the hallowed stage back in 2013. We are so grateful to the wonderful Opry staff for always making us feel special when we show up! We had a little fun backstage rehearsing in Dressing Room 2 - famously known as the "The Bluegrass Room." You can watch the LIVE video on our Facebook page here. Earlier that same day, we traveled to downtown Nashville to The Butcher Shoppe Recording Studio to film a special video for The Bluegrass Situation in promotion of our performance at the Huck Finn Festival in California this October. This particular studio is quite famous, having been the home to many famous recordings by Del McCoury and Johnny Cash. Find photos from the day on our website here. And Watch The Video here. We're currently in Branson, Missouri performing at Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ. It's one of our favorite events to play and we always love having so many fans join us in the Ozarks. We were so excited to return to the area, we decided to head over a little early and film a couple of guest appearances for some upcoming TV shows. Wednesday afternoon, we headed to Presleys' Country Jubilee to be part of their show that airs on RFD-TV. The Presleys are some of the kindest folks you can imagine and we were thrilled they extended the invitation to be part of their decades long family tradition of presenting quality entertainment on the Branson Strip. Be sure to catch Presleys' Country Jubilee the next time you are in Branson and we'll also be sure to let you know when our segment of the show is scheduled to air on RFD-TV! We can't say enough about our Spring edition of the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival! Every Artist brought their "A-Game" and presented spine-tingling performances! In addition to bringing back crowd favorites such as Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Nothin' Fancy, Art Stevenson & High Water, and The Primitive Quartet, we had some first-timers with us, too! The Price Sisters simply delighted everyone with their traditional style and The Po Ramblin' Boys brought the crowd to their feet - TWICE! Closing out the festival was our dear friend, and newest inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ricky Skaggs! He and Kentucky Thunder delivered one of the best performances in our festival's history!! Here are links to view photos from the fantastic weekend! (Photo above courtesy of Michael Gabbard) Photos Courtesy of CandidPix Photos Courtesy of East Public Relations Be sure to mark your calendars now for our Fall festival November 9-10, 2018. Tickets go on sale August 1st at 10am ET. For more information, visit www.somusicfest.com. The audience and reviewer response to "If I'd Have Wrote That Song" has been so positive, that we're releasing it to radio as our next single! Written by hit songwriters Larry Cordle, Larry Shell, and James Silvers, "If I'd Have Wrote That Song" has been a favorite with audiences at Radio Ramblers' live performances and a top pick among reviewers, as well. David Morris of Bluegrass Today says, "My favorite cut on the record is If I’d Have Wrote That Song. Working stiffs everywhere, not just songwriters, can identify with the frustrated dreams brought to life when Duane Sparks sings, 'I wouldn’t be driving this truck if I’d have wrote that song. This old baloney sandwich would be filet mignon.'” Read the Complete Bluegrass Today Album Review Here. If you have a favorite radio station, we encourage you to call them and request, "If I'd Have Wrote That Song," by Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, today! Please enjoy this live performance of "If I'd Have Wrote That Song," courtesy of our friends at WBCM Radio Bristol! We have really been enjoying our time at home during this holiday season. JMRR worked 109 performance dates in 2017! Add in an extra day of travel for the majority of those, plus about 8-10 days studio time producing our 2017 recording The Story We Tell, and we were ready for a little hibernation. THANK YOU for your encouragement and prayers this past year, and for attending concerts and festivals, purchasing recordings, attending our indoor festival in Ohio and everything else you contributed to a blessed 2017! We are also very thankful to our friends who are industry professionals for featuring us on radio, television, and the cover of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, the songwriters for sending us great material, IBMA voters for recognizing us, a couple of guest appearances at the Grand Ole Opry, and many more opportunities that allowed us to connect with thousands of people. Presenting JMRR on stage, sponsored by Rue Farms Rustic Potato Chips™, our first national sponsor, was one of our career highlights and certainly made 2017 fun and tasty for everyone! We distributed thousands of bags of delicious, all natural potato chips to fans courtesy of our friends at Rue Farms, AND we stopped at about a dozen Big Lots stores nationwide creating all kinds of chaos. Make it a New Year’s resolution – “Get yourself a bag or two of Rue!” Personally, we are very thankful for everyone on our team working daily to help us keep the bus on the road and the band in the spotlight: Chuck Evans, Laura Mainer, Kimberly Williams, Megan Brugger, Daniel Mullins – ALL of these folks are loved and appreciated for their continuous contributions. And back at home, NOTHING the band does matters without the love and support of Tammy, Theresa, Makole, Jennifer, and Sarah – thanks girls! The new year hasn't even arrived and we're already preparing for another busy one! We'll officially kick off our 2018 schedule with a couple shows that are regular stops for us in Ohio and Kentucky. January 12th we'll be at the Marysville, Ohio Winter Bluegrass Series, and January 13th we'll look forward to visiting all our friends in Clay City at the Kentucky Friends of Bluegrass Concert. February finds us heading to Florida for much of the month and we have to admit, these cold temps have got us pretty excited about enjoying warmer weather in the middle of winter. Our "snowbird" friends may be on to something! Be sure to check out our entire 2018 schedule for a show near year very soon! 2018 Tour Schedule We were so honored to be the recipients of the International Bluegrass Music Association's (IBMA) Gospel Recorded Performance for the second consecutive year. This year's recognition is for our recording of "Sacred Memories" featuring guest vocals by Sharon White Skaggs and Ricky Skaggs as well as Kelsi Harrigill and Charli Robertson of Flatt Lonesome. We had a fantastic time in Raleigh, NC, for IBMA's World of Bluegrass and have shared photos from the week on our website here. Photo credit: Dave Brainard We're the subject of a feature in this month's Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine and we're so excited to also be on the cover! Tom Netherland did an outstanding job with the interview and the story. Pick up a copy today and read all about us! Read the Complete Story Here! Read the Complete Story Here! We are so thankful for the incredible response our new Rebel Records release, The Story We Tell, has received. Both the first single and the album have charted very well in the first few weeks since being released on August 18th. Thanks to all the radio broadcasters for playing our music and to all our fans and friends for making those requests! The Story We Tell #5 - Billboard Magazine's Top Selling Bluegrass Albums (Week of 9/9) "Long Gone Out West Blues" #1 - Bluegrass Today's Top 20 Songs Chart (Week of 9/1 & 9/8) #6 - SiriusXM Bluegrass Junction's Most Played Tracks (September) "When God's In It" #5 - Bluegrass Today's Top 20 Songs Chart (Week of 9/9) Our "Grand Ole Story" contest was a huge success with so many wonderful entries! From poems, to love stories, to made-up stories, to family stories, we thank you all from the bottom of my hearts for sharing your lives with us. Jeannine Fierro was named our winner after telling us the beautiful love story of her grandparents who were married 66 years before her grandmother passed away after a four-year battle with Alzheimer's. (Read Jeannine's Story Here) Jeannine and her grandfather, Jean Marcotte, were our special guests at the Grand Ole Opry and brought along an RV load from up-state New York with them. It was a privilege to meet all of then and we are honored they were able to join us! If any one album summed up one of the most successful bands in bluegrass, any genre really, it would be The Story We Tell by Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers. Released today on Rebel Records, this latest project is the band's sixth in seven years for bluegrass music’s most historic record label, and brings together a vibrant collection of songs that when heard, work together like chapters from a well-worn literary classic. Filled with new songs from some of today’s top songwriters including Larry Cordle, Jerry Salley, Ronnie Bowman, Steve Bonafel, and Raleigh Satterwhite, alongside forgotten gems the band dusted off from such varied sources as The Delmore Brothers, Merle Haggard, and The Browns, the balance achieved on The Story We Tell flows through the speakers like tuning in to your favorite radio broadcast — a claim only befitting of the reigning IBMA Broadcaster of the Year, Joe Mullins. "We gathered a very diverse set of songs, heavy on new material from great writers, allowing us to tell several types of stories -- tales of fun, family, fiddlers, faith, felons, and one funeral ... real bluegrass," said band leader and banjo player Joe Mullins. And if the lead off track and first single, "Long Gone Out West Blues," is any indication, the album is poised to do well with radio programmers. Released the latter part of June, "Long Gone Out West Blues" debuted on Bluegrass Today's Top 20 Songs chart, maintaining a strong presence five consecutive weeks. Featuring Mullins alongside bluegrass veterans Mike Terry(mandolin), Jason Barie (fiddle), Randy Barnes (bass), and Duane Sparks (guitar), The Story We Tell showcases the band’s most inventive and innovative arrangements to date, both vocally and instrumentally on 12 tracks. With an approach to the music that rings with authenticity, the band secures a rightful place among the traditional guard of bluegrass while standing comfortably shoulder to shoulder with more progressive type artists who find themselves drawn to not only JMRR's music, but their down-home, likable nature. In the album's liner notes, journalist Craig Havighurst brings The Story We Tell and its authors to one solid conclusion: "Joe and his superb band with its diverse strengths and multiple lead vocalists have patiently carved out a special place in the national scene. They’ve won some awards that you can look up, though fewer than they deserve and fewer than they will over time. What matters more is that Joe’s steady contributions and excellent performances are accumulating, year in and out. So is a larger story of an artist who’ll tend to traditional music for decades, something we very much need as the genre widens. Just remember that Joe and his band mates are standing sentinel over something even more profound than the cultural creation we cherish as bluegrass. They’re giving us all tuneful, truthful reasons to have faith in the future of the country." The Story We Tell is available to radio programmers via AirplayDirectand to consumers for digital download at iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. Consumers may also order The Story We Tell direct from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers at www.radioramblers.com. The Story We Tell Track Listing (August 18, 2018) Long Gone Out West Blues The Last Old Shovel Songs That Will Get 'Em I Could Have Gone Right If I'd Have Wrote That Song Neighbors I Heard That Train In The Short Rows Now I'm Nowhere Bound Would You Care The Fiddle Man's Delight When God's In It |
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