Where did the summer go? I swear I left it right here, but now the stores are all haunted with ghoulish apparitions, black and orange candy, and out of place looking Christmas lights, so it seems a change in the season has occurred. (Does it seem a bit odd to you that all that prepackaged, artificially sweetened, food like stuff is surrounded by images of skeletons, ghosts, and tombstones? It doesn't seem like a good selling point to me. As a result, I'm sticking with cake.)
For some non-caloric entertainment, the band has a new page at www.urbanmonroes.com and a new look at www.myspace.com/urbanmonroes. Stop by and see the changes and let us know what you think and while wandering the web, remember that you never know what a little browsing will turn up. We found a familiar name at around #9 on the National Bluegrass Chart compiled from ReverbNation. Here's that chart:
There are over 20,000 artists on these charts. Here are the top 35 Bluegrass artists reporting on the national folk chart at ReverbNation.
Top 35
Punch Brothers
Henhouse Prowlers
Cadillac Sky
Farewell Drifters
Spring Creek
Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen
Steep Canyon Rangers
Head for the Hills
Urban Monroes
The Expedition Show
Dixie Bee Liners
Lonesome Traveler
Hardline Drive
Liberty Bluegrass Band
Straygrass
Del McCoury
Mountain Heart
Ashleigh Caudill
Amanda and Scott Anderson
Exception to the Rule
Monroe Crossing
Pete Wernick
Anderson Family Band
Nu Blu
Rhonda Vincent
Greensky Bluegrass
Eric McDonald
Justin Moses
Daily and Vincent
Bluegrass Parlor Band
Unstrung Heroes
SteelDrivers
Sandy Pickers
Lindsay Lou
Speaking of summer...I think that got mentioned earlier, if not just go with it...a new video of our of the song "Fireball Mail " is below. The story line is the Urban Monroes blasting all over the western U.S playing festivals. Does it get more summery than that?
And lest we forget, here's the cover of our new CD, Pavement and Pathways. Two singles from it have already been released on Poetman Records. The most recent "Sink or Swim" appears on Poetman's inaugural bluegrass radio sampler with a track from Rhonda Vincent.
Every now and then we like to post a playlist. Here is a recent one from KGNU Boulder
Urban Monroes- When the Aspens Turn
The Hillbenders- Highway Gambler
Romano Paoletti- Ragtime Blues
Martin Gilmore- Don't Talk About Hard Times
Lonesome Traveler- Right Where I'm Supposed to Be
Ryan Spearman- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
Blue Highway- Lonesome Pine
Sam Bush- Sailin' Shoes
Giddyup Kitty- Colorado
Lonesome River Band- Record Time Machine
Tim O'Brien/Darrell Scott- Walk Beside Me
J Douglas/P Rowan- Tribulations
Jerry Douglas- Little Martha
Jimmy Martin- I Like to Hear 'Em Preach It
Laurie Lewis- Going to the West
Tony Trischka- Fox on the Run
Trampled by Turtles- Victory
New Grass Revival- Sapporo
The Bluegrass Band- Duelin' Banjos
Infamous Stringdusters- God's country
Mountain Heart- Deadwood
Hot Rize- Climbing Up A Mountain
Frank Solivan and D.K- Line drive
The Farewell Drifters- sunnyside drive
Blue Canyon Boys- Rocky Mountain Bound
The New Tradition- Daniel Prayed
The Dillards- The Old Home Place
Peter Rowan- The Family Demon
Tim O'Brien- I've endured
Gillian Welch- Red Clay Halo
Yonder Mountain S.B- rain still falls
Strength in Numbers- Slopes
Ralph Stanley- Mountain Folks
Bluegrass Patriots- High Country
The Churchmen- Take Me in the Lifeboat
Steve Martin- Daddy Played The Banjo
Punch Brothers- rye whiskey
Del McCoury Band- Recovering Pharisee
Tony Rice- Church Street Blues
John Hartford- I'm Still Here
Pete Kartsounes- Old Bluegrass Home
Psychograss- hot nickles
Laurie Lewis- Maple's Lament
