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Adam Steffey

Adam Steffey To Join Volume Five.

26 Jan, 19 by Greg McGrath Leave a Comment

Adam SteffeyVolume Five has announced the addition of Adam Steffey to their band. He is a 5-time Grammy award winner and record-holding 11-time International Bluegrass Music Association Mandolin Player of the Year award winner.

Adam Steffey has toured with an impressive list of bands including Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lonesome River Band, Mountain Heart, The Dan Tyminski Band, The Boxcars, The Isaacs and most recently The Highland Travelers. He has performed with such artists as Kenny Chesney, Clint Black, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, The Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Rhonda Vincent, Ronnie Bowman, Jim Mills, and many others.

We are excited about Adam joining the band. He’s a fantastic player with a lot of musical ideas. We are extremely excited to get to work with Adam and I’m sure he will be a great asset to Volume Five – Glen Harrell, Volume Five.

Steffey will play mandolin and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Burleson will move to guitar. The talented Patton Wages on banjo and Jeff Partin round out this award-winning five-piece group.

Volume Five was received two 2017 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards, including Emerging Artist of the Year and Song of the Year Award for I Am A Drifter written by Donna Ulisse and Marc Rossi.

In 2018, Mountain Fever Records released the band’s Milestones album that celebrates their 10th anniversary. Many tracks from the album continue to climb the charts on the Bluegrass Today’s Weekly and Monthly Charts, Sirius XM Bluegrass Junction’s Most Played Tracks and Albums, Roots Music Report and more.

Steffey will appear on Volume Five’s upcoming album to be released on Mountain Fever Records this year. The band has been recording their new album at “the house” at Everett’s Music Barn in Suwanee, Georgia.

Filed Under: Artists, Headline News, International News Tagged With: Adam Steffey, Volume Five

Adam Steffey – Here To Stay

12 Aug, 16 by Greg McGrath

Adam Steffey CDWith a storied career that includes multiple Grammy awards, and a record-setting eleven International Bluegrass Music Association Mandolin Performer of the Year Awards, East Tennessee native Adam Steffey brings us new versions of his best known songs from his time with Alison Krauss and Union Station, Mountain Heart and others on his upcoming album. Here To Stay traces his musical journey from Bluegrass side-man to one of today’s best known voices.

From the undeniable power of the lead off track, “Mountain Man” to his Grammy award-winning performance on “Little Liza Jane,” Here to Stay features the signature works of Steffey’s music legacy to date.

Recorded with a team of ultimate hardcore Bluegrass musicians, Ron Stewart on fiddle, Jason Davis on banjo, Barry Bales on bass and Aaron Ramsey on guitar, these well-known works are still true to the original. They are, however, refreshed with new energy and led by Steffey’s unmistakable mandolin tone and attack.

The originality and haunting rich baritone of Steffey’s vocal is highlighted throughout with solo performances on “The Space I’m In,” written by Eric Gibson and the Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford penned “The Town That Isn’t There.”

This twelve song album makes clear the diversity of Steffey’s recorded history. It also traces the influence he has had as one of the most imitated Bluegrass mandolinists of the last 20+ years. Fans of his work will appreciate the revised “No Place to Hide” as well as previously unrecorded titles like the acoustic rendition of “Come Thou Fount” that features half a dozen layered mandolin parts.

As a founding member and performer with the 3-time IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year Award-Winning band, The Boxcars, and this impressive fourth recording as a solo artist, Here to Stay proves Steffey is one of the most respected and accomplished artists in music today.

Here to Stay is out 9.23.16 from Mountain Home Music Company.

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Eleventh Award Years for Adam Steffey

8 Oct, 14 by Greg McGrath

Adam SteffeyMandolin master Adam Steffey has been awarded Mandolin Player of the Year for the eleventh time. The award was handed out at the 25th Annual International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, held on October 2nd at the Memorial Auditorium of the Duke Energy Center For The Performing Arts in Raleigh, NC.

Adam Steffey is surely one of the most recorded mandolinists over the past 15 years or more. He is a five-time Grammy® Winner. He is an adjunct faculty member at East Tennessee State University as a mandolin instructor in the ‘Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Department’ and has been an instructor at a variety of workshops and camps – including the famed Mandolin Symposium held each year in California. He has been a member of some very influential acts including Alison Krauss, The Isaacs, and Mountain Heart. Adam is currently a member of The Boxcars, who were recognized as the ‘Emerging Artist Of The Year’ in 2011 and have been awarded “Instrumental Group Of The Year” in 2011, 2012, and 2013 by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

For more on Adam Steffey, visit adamsteffey.com or organic-records.com.

Filed Under: Artists, International News Tagged With: Adam Steffey

Adam Steffey’s New Primitive Story

14 Jun, 13 by Greg McGrath

Adam Steffey's New PrimativeAdam Steffey’s new album is due for release on 18th June 2013 by Organic Records.  They describe it as an essential, authentic expression of American roots music. Mandolin master Adam Steffey’s New Primitive is a transformative blend of two unique folk identities. Inspired by his Bluegrass expertise, Steffey combines synchronized Old Time rhythms with refined musicianship to create a work that is ancient and edgy, basic and complex, simple and beautiful, primitive and new.

Steffey, arguably the most recorded mandolin player in the past decade or more, has built a career winning awards as part of genre-defying acts like Alison Krauss and Union Station, and he continues to break the mold with this 3rd solo release.

The new project coincides with the re-emergence of the unique record label, Organic Records. Returning from its hiatus, Organic Records serves as a professional catalyst for singularly unique releases like Steffey’s New Primitive.
This project is something that I have had in the back of my mind for a number of years now. My love of bluegrass music is well documented, but over the past decade or so I have become an avid fan of old-time traditional music. My wife is an accomplished old-time banjo player and is featured on the album. She has steered me toward so many great recordings and players in the genre and it really gave me the vision for this project. I hope that everyone likes the blending of bluegrass influences with the old-time tunes. I’m so glad that I was able to make this album and it was a real joy to record – Adam Steffey.

New Primitive comes to life at the skillful musicianship of Steffey along with Tina Steffey on banjo, Zeb Snyder on guitar, Samantha Snyder on fiddle and vocals, Eddie Bond on fiddle, and Barry Bales on bass. The project does not attempt to reintroduce something old as much as express something new yet based in tradition. It offers tracks that range from complex and masterful acoustic instrumental duos to high energy, full band romps that are as exciting as they are stunningly proficient.

New Primitive makes a statement: This is roots music destined to be discovered by a new audience.

Track List:
1. Johnny Don’t Get Drunk
2. Raleigh and Spencer
3. Goodbye Girls I’m Going to Boston
4. New Five Cent Piece
5. Cluck Old Hen
6. Who Will Sing Me Lullabies
7. Chinquapin Hunting
8. Squirrel Hunter
9. Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom
10. Big Eyed Rabbit
11. Fine Times At Our House
12. Rock The Cradle Joe
13. Ways Of The World

Filed Under: CD Releases Tagged With: Adam Steffey

Adam Steffey Interview

28 Aug, 09 by Greg McGrath

Mandolin Cafe’s Bill Graham Interviews Adam Steffey

One of the most widely admired and undoubtedly influential mandolin players of his generation, Adam Steffey makes his Sugar Hill Records with his new CD – One More For The Road. This is his first solo album in eight years.

Musicians on the new album include Dan Tyminski, Clay Hess, Ron Block and Bryan Sutton on guitar; Stuart Duncan and Ron Stewart on fiddle, and Barry Bales on bass, while Randy Kohrs played resonator guitar and Ron Stewart and Ron Block played banjo.

Bill Graham caught up with him for an interview for the Mandolin Cafe.

Read the interview on Mandolin Cafe.

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: Adam Steffey, Mandolin Cafe

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