Blue Highway

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Blue Highway

Dobro player Rob Ickes performs with Blue Highway.
June 21, 2010
Background information
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Genres bluegrass, country, southern gospel
Years active 1994 - present
Website http://www.bluehighwayband.com
Members Jason Burleson
Rob Ickes
Shawn Lane
Tim Stafford
Wayne Taylor

Blue Highway is an American contemporary bluegrass band, based in Tennessee, formed in 1994. They have released nine CDs, their sixth and seventh – Wondrous Love (2003), and Marbletown (2005) – received Grammy Award nominations.

Background

After helping "found the band Dusty Miller", who were 1990 SPBGMA International Bluegrass Band champions, and "a key player in Alison Krauss & Union Station when it was named IBMA Entertainer of the Year in 1991," Kingsport, Tennessee native Tim Stafford "organized" Blue Highway in 1994—whose first project It's a Long, Long Road "spent six months at the top of the Bluegrass Unlimited charts and won IBMA's Album of the Year Award (1996)."[1] Original banjo player with the group, Jason Burleson, a "multi-instrumentalist", is a native of Newland, North Carolina.[1] A Northern California native, Rob Ickes moved to Nashville in 1992, and joined as a "founding member" in 1994. He has won numerous awards for his playing.[1] Vocalist, fiddler, and mandolin player Shawn Lane joined the group as a founding member after cutting "his musical teeth" in the bands of Ricky Skaggs and Doyle Lawson. His songs have also been recorded by Ricky Skaggs, Ronnie Bowman, Mountain Heart, Blue Ridge, etc.[1] Lead singer Wayne Taylor, who plays bass, hails from Southwest Virginia is also a founding member of the group.[1]

Personnel

Honors, awards, distinctions

Grammy Nominations

  • Best Bluegrass Album (2005): Marbletown
  • Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album (2004): Wondrous Love

International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards

  • Song of the Year (2008): "Through the Window of a Train"
  • Gospel Recording of the Year (1997): "God Moves in a Windstorm"
  • Gospel Recording of the Year (2004): "Wondrous Love"
  • Emerging Artist of the Year (1996)
  • Album of the Year Award (1996): It's a Long, Long Road
  • Album of the Year Award (2006): Celebration of Life: Musicians Against Childhood Cancer
  • Dobro Player of the Year (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996): Rob Ickes

Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) Awards

  • Gospel Group of the Year (Overall) (2005)
  • Instrumental Group of the Year (2003)
  • Dobro Performer of the Year (2003): Rob Ickes
  • Bass Performer of the Year (2001): Wayne Taylor
  • Guitar Performer of the Year (2001): Tim Stafford

Dove Award

  • Best Bluegrass Album (2004): Wondrous Love

Touring

Blue Highway has toured extensively, including the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival in 2005.[2]

Discography

Albums

Title Album details Peak positions
US Bluegrass
It's a Long Long Road —
Wind to the West
  • Release date: July 16, 1996
  • Label: Rebel Records
 —
Midnight Storm
  • Release date: January 27, 1998
  • Label: Rebel Records
 —
Blue Highway
  • Release date: July 13, 1999
  • Label: Skaggs Family Records
 —
Still Climbing Mountains —
Wondrous Love
  • Release date: June 24, 2003
  • Label: Rounder Records
 10
Marbletown
  • Release date: June 7, 2005
  • Label: Rounder Records
 4
Lonesome Pine
  • Release date: April 25, 2006
  • Label: Rebel Records
 —
Through the Window of a Train
  • Release date: February 12, 2008
  • Label: Rounder Records
 2
Some Day: The Fifteenth
Anniversary Collection
  • Release date: January 19, 2010
  • Label: Rounder Records
 5
Sounds of Home
  • Release date: August 23, 2011
  • Label: Rounder Records
 8
The Game
  • Release date: January 21, 2014
  • Label: Rounder Records
 4
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "photos+bios". Blue Highway. Retrieved 2 October 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival", Strings, newsletter of the Pineridge Bluegrass Folklore Society, October 2005

External links

See also

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