Donna Ulisse is Livin’ Large

Donna Ulisse is back with a full-length album Livin’ Large due Feb. 25, 2022.

This new release, through Billy Blue Records features production by Doyle Lawson of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and will mark Donna Ulisse’s second Billy Blue Record since signing with the label in 2019.

Over the span of her career, Ulisse has released twelve studio albums, charted predominantly in the Bluegrass Unlimited charts, The Folk DJ National chart, The Americana Music charts, Billboard Bluegrass chart, and won the award for 2016 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Song of the Year as well as Song of the Year in 2017. She is recognised as having “one of the most commanding voices in bluegrass music” by CMT.

Music is my marker through this life I choose to live and this latest project is a great example of recording my journey through time. I certainly could not do the music of Donna Ulisse without lots of help from the talented and loving people I cherish. Dottie Miller and Ed Leonard, thanks for another shot at a Billy Blue Record, I love my music home and all of the hard working staff that keep it running. Jerry Salley, I love the songs we write and the quirky friendship we enjoy and will always be grateful (that) you signed me to this wonderful label. My sweet Poor Mountain Boys; Rick Stanley, Greg Davis, Evan Winsor, and Mason Nolen, you always bring your “A” game and represent my creations with such style, grazie. Cody Kilby, you are now an almost official PMB and I love you; Nathan Fauscett, you kept us right as rain; Stephen Burwell, you knocked it out of the park fiddlin’ and punchin’, just…WOW. I can hardly type the name Doyle Lawson without grinning like a Santa filled Christmas morning. The care you put into every note of my music makes me want to pinch myself all the time. You are the Chief to me, I just adore you; Lil One, Kathy Anderson, I can’t begin to imagine doing any of this without you; My darling, patient husband Rick, I need you by my side every minute to be me. You are the love of my life. Daddy, having you here with us on the Wee Farm is a gift I never dreamed to have. Thank you for always loving me. My Lord and Savior, my next breath is always Your choice and my choice to follow You makes me breathe easy while I’m livin’ large – Donna Ulisse.

About Donna Ulisse:

These days Donna is a key figure in the bluegrass music scene as a singer and songwriter. Her single It Could Have Been The Mandolin topped the Bluegrass Unlimited chart at #1 for two months in a row. She was also named the 2016 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Songwriter of the Year and went on to win the IBMA award for writing the Song of the Year “I Am A Drifter” in 2017. In 2019 she signed with Billy Blue Records which is home to some of bluegrass music’s brightest stars. Her thirteenth career album Livin’ Large will be released in early 2022 and is her third album produced by bluegrass legend Doyle Lawson.

Recent TV appearances had her as a featured guest on RFD-TV’s Simply Bluegrass show hosted by Ricky Skaggs which featured the biggest names in the genre. She also did a month-long stint as host of Bluegrass Ridge, a video television show on Heartland TV Network which has several of her videos in regular rotation. Her past albums have charted prominently in the Bluegrass Unlimited charts, The Folk DJ National chart, The Americana Music Charts and Billboard Bluegrass chart, while her 2012 Christmas album All The Way To Bethlehem was called “a masterpiece” by Kyle Cantrell, host of Bluegrass Junction on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. Edward Morris, writer for CMT.com dubs her “one of the most commanding voices in bluegrass music.”
As a songwriter, she has had her songs recorded by bluegrass artists Claire Lynch, Darin and Brooke Aldridge, The Grascals, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Larry Stephenson Band and Volume Five to name a few, as well as a song on the 2014 Grammy winning album Streets of Baltimore by the Del McCoury Band. She authored the book The Songwriter in Me: Snapshots of My Creative Process and is the founder of Lil House Songwriting Workshops offering aspiring songwriters the opportunity to write with her and other pro writers in order to improve their skills. Donna also keeps a busy touring schedule playing festivals and concert venues with her band.