

That same year, Lawson and Quicksilver released the landmark gospel bluegrass album Rock My Soul. He founded Quicksilver in 1979 but still recorded with the highly regarded Bluegrass Album Band starting in 1981.

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Lawson started his professional career as a Sunny Mountain Boy for Jimmy Martin in 1963, followed by lengthy tenures with Crowe, as well as the Country Gentlemen. Lawson’s alumni include members of IIIrd Tyme Out, Mountain Heart, Continental Divide and Ricky Skaggs’ band, Kentucky Thunder.) (Both men are known for teaching the ropes to future generations of pickers. Lawson was among the first to dip into alt-country pioneer Gram Parson’s catalog, including “God’s Own Singer” and “Sin City.” At the time, Lawson was in the Kentucky Mountain Boys with J.D. Lawson and Quicksilver have always stretched the boundaries of what is considered appropriate material for bluegrass music. It also contains “My Trust in You,” perhaps the first bluegrass song about a booty call. After that, it tells of departing lovers, broken-hearted misery and working the soles right off your shoes. That album’s first track, “Blue Train (of the Heartbreak Line),” pulls together all the elements of a successful bluegrass song - speed, melody and killer harmonies. Although Lawson and the band are equally known for gospel, the new project will spotlight secular bluegrass, along the lines of 2002’s Grammy-nominated The Hard Game of Love. Stockman - are at work on the follow-up to last year’s Thank God. That’s the key.”ĭoyle Lawson & Quicksilver - which currently includes banjo player Terry Baucom (a founding member who recently rejoined), guitarist Jamie Daily, bassist Barry Scott and fiddler J.W. You just take a deep breath, hitch your britches and keep on after it. “You don’t stray away and you don’t give up when you hit a few pot holes. “The secret to this - and it’s no secret - is just hard work and persistence,” Lawson says. He has parted ways with longtime label Sugar Hill, hired an agent after 24 years of booking shows himself and enlisted a Nashville publicist to get the word out. Instead, Lawson has decided that it’s time to catch up with the top stars in the bluegrass world. He’d be crazy to do that because he’s winning more awards and making more money than ever before. After 25 years of fronting his own band, Doyle Lawson is trying something new.
