The Murphy Method Blog » Goldheart http://blog.murphymethod.com Where the Murphy Method community keeps in touch. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:39:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 One Random Thing http://blog.murphymethod.com/2008/10/08/one-random-thing/ http://blog.murphymethod.com/2008/10/08/one-random-thing/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:45:02 +0000 Casey http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=183 Casey HenryHere is an interesting thing I ran across a couple days ago. Last week I posted a photo of the Virginia band Goldheart in my post about IBMA, Day 2. Over at the Bluegrass Blog, Brance captured me capturing that shot and posted it here. Pretty nifty.

]]> http://blog.murphymethod.com/2008/10/08/one-random-thing/feed/ 0 IBMA, Day 2 http://blog.murphymethod.com/2008/10/01/ibma-day-2/ http://blog.murphymethod.com/2008/10/01/ibma-day-2/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:47:46 +0000 Casey http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=163 Casey HenryAfter an extremely slow afternoon tending our booth at the IBMA tradeshow, I popped down the street to the Hilton hotel to interview the band G2, on whom I’m writing a magazine article. I’m old fashioned and still use a cassette recorder to tape interviews. To my embarassment I had brought the recorder, a mic, and extra batteries…but no tapes! Luckily Erik, the mandolin player, had an iPod with a little recorder to capture our conversation. Wshew!

After that I headed down to lower Broad to Roberts Western Wear to catch the Bloggrass boys show. The single, if you can call it that, from the new CD is a hilarious song called “Democrat Ain’t a Dirty Word No More.” They had some great guests, including the amazing singer Jonell Mosser. And I had the unique experience of purchasing their CD from Suzy Bogguss, who sings on it.

The Bloggrass Boys

L-R: Josh McMurry, (hidden Mike Witcher), Travis Stinson, Paul Kramer, Chris Jones, Jon Weisberger, Aaron Till.

My next stops were at after-hours showcases where I caught a wide variety of bands including:

Red Wine

Red Wine, from Italy.

Goldheart

Goldheart, a wonderful trio of sisters from Virginia. I first heard them two years ago and since then they have developed their musicianship by leaps and bounds. The 16-year-old sister, Jocelyn, writes some wonderful songs and picks the fire out of the guitar. 18-year-old Analise holds her own on the mandolin, while 13-year-old Shelby tears it up on the fiddle. Their trio is stunning.

Chris Henry with Tyler Grant

I caught my brother Chris playing with former Two-Stringer and Winfield Guitar Champion Tyler Grant.

Shin, Sammy, Maro, Andy

The above band tours Japan every year. Shin Akimoto, Andy Ball, Sammy Shelor, Maro Katawba (I apologize if I’ve misspelled names there…). When I stuck my head in the door they were picking a triple-mandolin version of “Golden Slippers.”

G2

And once again to end up the night, G2. There were very few people in that 1:30 am showcase, so we clapped twice as loud to make up for it. L-R: Tobias Strömberg, Christoffer Olsson, Jimmy Sunnebrandt, Erik Igelström, Jens Koch.

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