DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER

AND

FLATT LONESOME  

SCORE BIG AT GPAC!  

January 11, 2019

Photo credit with thanks: Germantown Performing Arts Center

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at top (some personnel changes)

Flatt Lonesome below

**DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER -- SPBGMA'S 2019 ENTERTAINER OF THE

YEAR!   CONGRATULATIONS, DOYLE, STEPHEN, JOE, JERRY, JAKE AND JOSH!  

 

The Germantown Performing Arts Center is the place to be when seriously good bluegrass music comes to West Tennessee. Not one, but two of those seriously good bluegrass bands worked in tandem on the night of January 11, 2019. That's rare and a bluegrass fan's dream opportunity. Local fans keep an ear to the ground, an eye on the newspaper and the computer, and they wait...and wait...for such an event. They show up really early at the box office in order to reserve prime seats, and they wait some more until the day arrives. We did all of that recently, and we got more than we bargained for.

       Flatt Lonesome opened the show. This young, powerful group is not the typical opening act by any means. Together for a mere eight years, Flatt Lonesome quickly worked their way into the hearts of bluegrass fans everywhere. They scored awards with the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA), and the Dove Awards. Now that things are hot for them and going well, Flatt Lonesome has decided to step back for a while due to family and other commitments. While they're running wide open in 2019, we will tell you who these people are and what they do.

       Flatt Lonesome band members are:  Paul Harrigill (banjo), Kelsi Robertson Harrigill (mandolin, vocals), Dominic Illingworth (upright bass), Buddy Robertson (guitar, vocals), Charli Robertson (fiddle, vocals), and Michael Stockton (Dobro[R]). How did these people get this good this fast? Growing up in the music and a lot of hard work!

       Flatt Lonesome's song selection is as follows:  Dragging My Heart Around, You'll Get No More of Me, Never Leave Harlan Alive, Stay by the Brook, Gonna Settle Down, When Two Worlds Collide (Roger Miller song on Flatt Lonesome's 'King of the Road' tribute album), In the Heat of the Fire, Draw Me Near, Where Do You Go (Glen Campbell song), and they closed with their very popular song, You're the One. We wish this band well in all that they do in the future, and we hope to see them back out on the bluegrass trail before too long!

       Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver! There! The very name sparks visions of the band's many trips to Mountain View, and all parts of Arkansas, and to West Tennessee in places like the Lucy Opry at Harvester Lane and the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center (BPACC). Doyle Lawson would not say that he is a legend, but he's a legend! Lawson started out as a youngster years ago in East Tennessee with family and Southern Gospel quartet bands. He's been a professional bluegrass musician for at least half a century. During that time, there have been The Country Gentlemen, The New South, The Bluegrass Album Band, and many configurations of what we know as Quicksilver. Grammy and Dove Awards follow the band wherever they go. Always, but always, the vocal and instrumental quality have shown through as top-notch. These are the consummate professionals. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver dress up, show up, and give the listener more than he or she ever expected. This writer considers Doyle Lawson a friend of long-standing. We visited briefly after the concert, and we hope to hear the band again soon. If you missed the show, it's your loss. You do have one more chance:  Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver will perform at Song of the Mountains at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, VA, on March 3, 2019, along with Jerry Salley and Billy Droze.

      

The members of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are:  Doyle Lawson (mandolin, vocals), Stephen Burwell (fiddle), Joe Dean (banjo, some vocals), Jerry Cole (bass, lead and harmony vocals), Jake Vanover (guitar, lead and harmony vocals), and Josh Swift (Dobro[R], bass vocals and harmony vocals).

Little chat with friends after the concert

       Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver performed the following songs at GPAC:  Drivin' It Home, Back in My Baby's Arms Again, Jealous, I Think My Sweet Baby's Got Leavin' on Her Mind, Foggy Mountain Rock (Josh Swift), Livin' Like There's No Tomorrow (Jake Vanover), I'll Be True While You're Gone, I Told Them All About You, The White Rose, I Am Going to Heaven Some Sweet Day (a cappella with Doyle, Jerry, Jake, and Josh), I Have Joy in My Soul Since Jesus Came into My Heart, Help Is on the Way, Come See About Me (from the CD of the same name, which is a benefit for the IBMA Trust Fund), We'll Never Walk Alone (from the 'Come See About Me' CD for the IBMA Trust Fund), Hangman's Reel (Stephen), The Rose of Old Kentucky (tribute to Bill Monroe), Blue Train, and two encores with standing ovations for Julie Ann Come on Home and On the Sea of Life.

       As they say in bluegrass music, "Son! They burned it!" They did indeed!

 

For more information:

Flatt Lonesome www.flattlonesome.com also on YouTube and Facebook

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver  www.doylelawson.com E-mail dlqkslvr@doylelawson.com and on YouTube and Facebook

Mountain Home Family / Mountain Home Music Company for details about "Come See About Me" album www.mountainhomemusiccompany.com 

Come See About Me album also available at Amazon

Germantown Performing Arts Center  www.GPACweb.com

Song of the Mountains  www.songofthemountains.org or timwhitemusic@charter.net or call Tim White at 276.783.6093