Missy Raines and the New Hip on IBMA

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News from Missy Raines and the New Hip reveals that their Compass Records release Inside Out has made it to the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Nomination Ballot  in the Best Contemporary Folk Recording category, while Stop, Drop & Wiggle has made it to the ballot  for  Best Country Instrumental Performance category. What a fantastic week [...]

Bluegrass Sisterhood – Wall St. Journal

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Alison Brown, Dale Ann Bradley, and Missy Raines were all recently featured in Barry Mazor’s The Sisterhood of Bluegrass article for The Wall Street Journal. The article focuses on the tradition of women in bluegrass and how each Alison, Dale Ann, and Missy came to playing their own version of bluegrass but by taking very [...]

Missy Raines – Bass Player Magazine Feature

Compass Records has advised that Missy Raines, renowned bass player and now band leader of The New Hip, is featured in the current issue of Bass Player Magazine. Known for her ability to seamlessly fuse bluegrass virtuosity and jazz-tinged licks with a song-driven sensibility, Missy Raines’ bass has yet to meet a genre it can’t [...]

Missy Raines – CD Release

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Missy Raines, seven time winner of the IBMA Bass Player of the Year award announces a new album Inside Out with her band The New Hip. The album was recorded in Nashville and produced by Raines, members of The New Hip and Ben Surrat. It features special guest appearances by Matt Flinner (mandolin), John R. [...]

Missy Raines – IBMA Nominee

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Missy Raines is a perennial nominee and winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year Award. She’s claimed that honor seven times and is in contention to win the honor again this year. At a press conference held today at the Country Music Hall of Fame, the International Bluegrass Music Association [...]