Backline Release New Single Cold Wind
Backline, the winners of the Blue Highway Fest Rising Stars Challenge in Big Stone Gap, VA, sponsored by Turnberry Records, are proud to announce the release of their brand-new single, Cold Wind, a fresh and compelling original song produced by Blue Highway’s Wayne Taylor.
Backline was so thrilled to win the Blue Highway Fest Rising Stars Challenge and to get the opportunity to record a song produced by Blue Highway’s Wayne Taylor. We were looking high and low for a song that would really showcase the band and had one in the works but weren’t completely sold on it. Then, about two weeks before we were supposed to go to the studio, my dad sent some new lyrics to me. I sat down in his kitchen and put a melody to it, and we finished writing Cold Wind. So, this new song we are releasing is legitimately, fresh off the press.
Thank you so much to Jeff Partin for some arrangement ideas for Cold Wind and to Wayne Taylor (producer), Jim Price, and Bobby Starnes (Hat Creek Studios), along with the entire team at Turnberry Records. – Katelyn Ingardia.
Written by David Mabry & Katelyn Mabry, Cold Wind tells the poignant story of a dreamer who leaves behind small-town farm life in the South for the big city, only to find themselves working in a steel factory instead of achieving their dreams. Longing for home, they ultimately return to the South, leaving the cold wind behind them.
Wayne Taylor, who co-produced the song, expressed his enthusiasm:
It was great working with Backline in the studio. It just doesn’t get any better than Katelyn’s powerful vocals, superb musicians, and a great original song. Hearing them at the Rising Stars Challenge at Blue Highway Fest last year and them winning the competition was a testament to their talent and the legitimacy of the Challenge. I hope everyone enjoys listening to the song as much as I enjoyed working on it – Wayne Taylor.
Turnberry Records sponsored the first annual Blue Highway Fest Rising Stars Challenge talent competition in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.The Challenge winner, has recorded a great original song, Cold Wind, for distribution to bluegrass radio and all music streaming platforms by Get It Played.
Cold Wind is available now to bluegrass radio as well as streaming on major digital platforms. Fans of authentic and heartfelt bluegrass music won’t want to miss this powerful new release from Backline.
Band Members include: Katelyn Ingardia on guitar and vocals, Alex Hampton on Dobro and vocals, David Heavner on mandolin and vocals, Jacob Caroll on banjo and vocals, and Chris Williamson on doghouse bass.
About Backline:
Backline
Backline is a 5-piece band out of Spartanburg, SC. Established February of 2016. They write and perform about 80% of our music catalog. We are largely structured off original material.
They are a contemporary bluegrass band that focuses on tight arrangements and clean harmonies.
They perform grassed up country covers, and traditional bluegrass covers as well. Their goal is to bring a lively, but unique form of entertainment to the audiences they get to play for. Sharing their music and growing their fan base in an entirely new way is their aim.
In the area in which the band grew up, there were a lot of old abandoned textile mills around. A lot of the members had families who worked in a few of those mills as kids and teenagers. There were many sections of the Mill Hill Villages in which people who worked at the mill would live. There was the Boss line for owners, foremen and management families. Then there was theSide and Back line. These held housing rows for the everyday mill worker’s families. This is where the name of the group came from. Tying a little piece of their local history into something new.
Backline has represent the State of South Carolina. They have bandmates who are members of IBMA. The band is members of SPGMA and members of and representatives of the South Carolina Bluegrass and Traditional Music Association..
Backline have released the following albums:
- Carolina 2016 and
- Thousand Wishes 2018
- Salem Town 2019
- Ticking of The Clock 2023
Band Credits Include:
- 1st Place Winner 2017 Reno Fest Band Competition,
- 1 st Place Winner Little John’s Band Contest 2019
- 2024 Blue Highway Fest Rising Star Challenge Winner
