The 85-year-old Osborne releases his album Original.
"Like most people, I've loved the music of Bobby Osborne as
long as I've known about music.
We're proud of his long history in bluegrass and for his many contributions to the industry,
and are honored to feature his latest project on SiriusXM.
It's truly a first class album from one of the great heroes of the music."
- Kyle Cantrell, Bluegrass Junction SiriusXM
We're proud of his long history in bluegrass and for his many contributions to the industry,
and are honored to feature his latest project on SiriusXM.
It's truly a first class album from one of the great heroes of the music."
- Kyle Cantrell, Bluegrass Junction SiriusXM
"Bobby Osborne is more excited about his
album "Original," than all of his previous solo projects.
He's got good reason to be. The production values of Alison Brown, the
accompanying musicians and vocalists, and Bobby's truly "Original"
vocal and mandolin stylings, warrant our attention. At 85 years of age,
this true Master
can still make people sit up and pay close attention to his God-given talents."
- Eddie Stubbs, WSM Grand Ole Opry Announcer
“Bobby Osborne has been thrilling bluegrass fans since he first started singing professionally in the 1950s. Having him here turning out a record of this quality 65 years later is an embarrassment of riches.
He sounds as strong as he ever did.” - John Lawless, Bluegrass Today
can still make people sit up and pay close attention to his God-given talents."
- Eddie Stubbs, WSM Grand Ole Opry Announcer
“Bobby Osborne has been thrilling bluegrass fans since he first started singing professionally in the 1950s. Having him here turning out a record of this quality 65 years later is an embarrassment of riches.
He sounds as strong as he ever did.” - John Lawless, Bluegrass Today
Bobby was slated to appear Friday 2nd June at the Grand Ole Opry signing CDs in the Opry store immediately following his performance.
Release
Date: 2 June 2017
Label: Compass Records
10 Tracks/ Time: 34:07
Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry:
Live backstage Grand Ole Opry #releaseday
Posted by Bobby Osborne on Friday, 2 June 2017
Bobby
Osborne is one of bluegrass music’s true innovators. His
trailblazing work with The Osborne Brothers, who charted 13
Billboard Country top 100 hits in the 1960s and 70s, took the sounds of the
banjo, mandolin and Bobby’s one of a kind tenor voice to a mainstream audience.
Blurring the boundaries between bluegrass and country music with the addition
of electric bass, drums and cutting edge instrumental performances, the Osborne
Brothers are, in a sense, the connective tissue between the first generation
creators of bluegrass music and newgrass which has in turn paved the way for
the diversity and innovation that characterizes contemporary bluegrass.
Even at
85 years old, when Bobby Osborne could be resting on his many laurels, he is
still driven by a desire to push the musical envelope.
Producer/banjoist/Compass
co-founder Alison Brown discovered this when she was subbing
for JD Crowe on a Masters of Bluegrass show several years ago and recognized a
kindred spirit in Bobby. Subsequently, while working with him in the studio
on Peter Rowan’s album, The Old School, Bobby happened
to comment that he doubted he’d have the chance to make another solo album. It
was clear that Bobby still had something important to say musically so Alison
connected Bobby with a grant from the FreshGrass Foundation grant and embarked
on the sessions for this project.
The new
album features an all star cast of pickers and singers collaborating with Bobby
on an eclectic set of songs. Relative newcomers Sierra Hull and Trey
Hensley team up with stalwarts Stuart Duncan and Todd Phillips on
grass’d up versions of Paint Your Wagon’s “They Call The Wind Maria” and
the Bee Gees’ “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You.” The never before
recorded Darrell Scott song “Kentucky Morning,”
featuring Rob Ickes, gives a nod to Bobby’s heritage while the
cover of “Make the World Go Away” with the lush twin fiddles of Buddy
Spicher and Matt Combs evokes Music Row circa 1962.
Bobby’s touring band the Rocky Top X-Press, with sons Wynn, Robby and
Bobby Osborne Jr., deliver an updated version of the Osborne Brothers’
classic “Pathway of Teardrops” while Ronnie and Robbie
McCoury, together with Josh Williams and Missy
Raines, collaborate on a version of the obscure Mel Tillis song
“Goodbye Wheeling.” Additional performers include Sam Bush, Vince Gill,
Jim Lauderdale, Del McCoury, Darrell Scott, David
Mayfield, Molly Tuttle, Bryan McDowell, and Kenny Malone.
About the
new music Bobby has this to say: “We [The Osborne Brothers] didn’t want to
sound like nobody else. And that’s the way I want to be on this CD, too.”
CONNECT with Bobby Osborne:It doesn't get much better than #Opry Members @AlisonKrauss and @bobbyosbornertx together backstage! ❤️ #OnlyTheOpry pic.twitter.com/RkOniffQAx— Grand Ole Opry (@opry) 3 June 2017
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