Adam Steffey

With 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.

Adam 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.