Becky Buller Releases New Single Ride On By.
10-time IBMA Award winner and Minnesota Music Hall of Fame member, Becky Buller releases a single Ride On By from her up-coming album of cover songs that had a huge impact on her musical career.
Ride On By was written by Dick Kimmel as a protest when the interstates were being built in West Virginia. He brought his music along when he accepted a job as a wildlife biologist with the Minnesota Department Of Natural Resources in the early 1980s. His band most likely performed this song at the Butterfield Threshing Bee that fateful day when my folks were in attendance. Dad was mesmerized by the mandolin, eventually bartering carpentry work for lessons from Dick. He introduced my folks to Gordy and Roxy Schultz; together they formed Prairie Grass, the group I picked up fiddle to sing with…. And bluegrass music has dominated my destiny ever since – Becky Buller.
Tracked by her current road band by engineer/producer Stephen Mougin, this recording showcases their collective musical prowess. For the past decade, they have been performing this song on large stages from The Grand Ole Opry to festivals and concert halls.
The arrangement has morphed through the years, most recently to include an epic not-so-secret space jam which gives all of us a chance to show out instrumentally as the hippies dance. I’m thrilled it’s finally found a home on this upcoming covers album – Becky Buller.
Artists performing on the album include: Becky Buller on vocal and fiddle, Ned Luberecki on 5-string banjo. Jacob Groopman on guitar, Daniel Hardin on harmony vocal and bass and Wes Lee on mandolin.
Preview the new album and single here.
Main photo details: Becky Buller Band (L-R: Daniel Hardin, Jacob Groopman, Becky Buller, Ned Luberecki, Wes Lee) Photo by Jay Strausser.
About Becky Buller:
Becky Buller is a 10-time IBMA award-winning Bluegrass artist. A celebrated musician, singer and songwriter, Buller made history as the first-ever artist to win in both instrumental and vocal categories at the 2016 IBMA Awards, as well as being the first female to ever win IBMA’s Fiddle Player of the Year. Since 2018, Becky has moonlighted with the all-female supergroup, The First Ladies of Bluegrass, which was recently recognized at the Country Music Hall of Fame with their own exhibit. Buller achieved a lifelong goal in 2021 when she made her Grand Ole Opry debut.
Her songs appear on Grammy award-winning albums by Molly Tuttle (2023), The Infamous Stringdusters (2019) and The Travelin’ McCourys (2018). Buller is a 2023 inductee into the Minnesota Music Hall Of Fame. Connect with her online at BeckyBuller.com.
About Dark Shadow Recording:
Dark Shadow Recording is a full-service studio and record label led by award-winning Stephen Mougin, located on a hilltop that surveys Music City’s electric skyline. The label produces and turns out music from some the industry’s most promising artists in the Bluegrass, Americana, Country, and Folk genres – Becky Buller, Rick Faris, Laura Orshaw, Henhouse Prowlers, Jana and Stephen Mougin.
