Steep Canyon Rangers Releases Radio

Celebrated bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers has released a new album titled Radio (Rounder Records) this week. Radio is produced by dobro master Jerry Douglas (John Oates, Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck). To promote of the release, the Steep Canyon Rangers is currently touring the United States, including one concert with outstanding comedian and banjo player, Steve Martin.

Steep Canyon Rangers are Woody Platt on guitar; Graham Sharp on banjo; Charles R. Humphrey III on bass; Mike Guggino on mandolin; Nicky Sanders on fiddle; and Mike Ashworth on box kit.

Radio is Steep Canyon Rangers’ ninth studio album and was recorded with Douglas at Asheville, North Carolina’s Echo Mountain Recording Studio. The album comprises twelve all-original bluegrass and Americana tracks, the bulk of which were written by Sharp with Humphrey, Platt and Guggino composing the rest in varying degrees.

Included are a few co-writes with fellow musicians from the folk world such as Phil Barker of the Carolina bluegrass band Town Mountain and singer-songwriter Shannon Whitworth.

 

 

Steep Canyon Rangers Confirmed Tour Dates

August 28 – Bristol, TN – Paramount Center for the Arts
August 29 – Galax, VA – The Blue Ridge Music Center
September 11-13 – Brevard, NC – Mountain Song Festival
September 17 – Ottawa, Ontario – CityFolk
September 20 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pickin’ in the Pines
September 24 – Morehead City, NC – The Morehead Center
September 25 – Manteo, NC – Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival
September 26 – Charleston, SC – The North Charleston Performance Arts Center*
September 27 – Doswell, VA – State Fair of Virginia
October 2 – Raleigh, NC – Wide Open Bluegrass
October 6 – Dallas, TX – Frontiers of Flight Museum
October 12 – New York, NY – The Bowery Ballroom
October 15 – Florence, SC – Uptown Ballroom at the Florence Civic Center
October 16-17 – Live Oak, FL – Magnolia Music Festival
October 19 – Cullowhee, NC – Bardo Performing Arts Center
October 23-24 – Washington, DC – Kennedy Center Concert Hall†
October 28 – Boone, NC – Legends (Appalachian State)
October 29 – Winston-Salem, NC – Ziggy’s
November 7 – Kingston, RI – University of Rhode Island
November 12 – Rockland, ME – The Strand Theatre
December 4-5 – Charlotte, NC – The Neighborhood Theatre
December 12 – Chapel Hill, NC – Memorial Hall – UNC

*appearing with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra
†appearing with Steve Martin