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"Hillbilly: The Real Story," — a documentary Becky helped
create music for, will be premiering on the
History
Channel Sept. 23, 2007 from 8 - 10 p.m. EST. Hope you
can tune in for it! |
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Thanks to Jer Boon for the
lovely interview he posted at
UKBluegrass.com. |
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Daniel Boner's live
all-Gospel record called "The Gospel Way" is available now! Log
onto
DansMusicOnline.com for more information. Oh, by the way,
Becky played fiddle on it! |
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Valerie Smith
& Liberty Pike moved up to the #2 spot on the
Bluegrass
Now Magazine's "Gospel Truths" chart for May 2007 with a
little ditty Becky wrote on the Bea and Paul Flaming's porch in
Minneapolis, Minn., so many moons ago called "The Rain." Glad to
hear you all are enjoying it! Oh, by the way, it was a DJ Hot
Pick this month as well! |
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More radio
news! "Make Him A Soldier," a Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike
tribute to the Louvin Brothers on their latest all-gospel
release "Wash Away Your Troubles," is at #21 on the
Power Source Bluegrass Chart for May 2007. |
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The
Daughters of Bluegrass made it to #20 on the Bluegrass Music
Profiles chart with "How's It Feel" from their 2006 release Back
to the Well on
Blue
Circle Records. Way to go, ladies! |
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Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike debuted
at #14 on the April 2007
Bluegrass
Now "Gospel Truths" chard with
"The Rain" from their latest all-Gospel
Bell
Buckle Records release "Wash Away Your
Troubles." The band is just tickled pink. Glad to hear you all
are enjoying the song!
Check
out
Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike's
rollicking Saturday night set at
Wintergrass 2007! The set is
available for download from
Festival Link.
Congratulations to the
Daughters of Bluegrass for breaking
into the
Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
"Bluegrass Survey" with "How's It Feel" from their Back To the
Well album. The Daughters came in at #26 in the April 2007
issue. |
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"Wash
Away Your Troubles," the first all-gospel album from Valerie
Smith & Liberty Pike has been nominated in the first round of
voting for the
Gospel
Music Association's 2007
Dove Awards.
All 11 singles are
up for "Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year." J. Gregory Heinike;
Grammy, Dove and IBMA Award-winning Alan O'Bryant and Becky
Buller are up for "Producers of the Year" and the album itself
is up for "Album of the Year."
Voting continues
Feb. 20 when the final list of nominees is announced.
The Dove Awards
will be held at the
Grand Ol' Opry
House in Nashville, Tenn., on Apr. 25. |
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Apparently it just wasn't cool enough that
Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike are
performing at this year's
Wintergrass Festival in Tacoma, Washington, Feb. 22-25. The
fine folks up there saw fit to invite Becky to be part of their
songwriting workshop which includes the awe-inspiring talents of
Pat
Flynn,
John Cowan and
Darrell
Scott!!!
Becky is weeping
for the sheer joy of it all, but promises to have herself
sufficiently composed enough not to drool while on stage with
them.
God is good! |
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During the
IBMA's World
of Bluegrass Week, Becky became an endorsee of
LouZee Lyre
Banjos. She will be playing one of their open-back models at
a Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike show near you! The
LouZee Lyres
were developed by Paul Hopkins and
Martin
Guitar historian, inlay specialist and music industry legend
Mike Longsworth, who passed away in 2003. |
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Becky Buller will be
traveling to the Slovak and Czech Republics in March to perform
a few shows with the Blue Velvet Band headed up by everybody's
favorite Slovakian banjo player
Richard
Cifersky. While there, Becky will also be playing on
Richard's new solo record and visiting a medieval castle. She
has always wanted to see a medieval castle while in Europe, but,
alas!, she has not up until this point. She has it on very good
authority that Slovakia is crawling with medieval castles. The
dates will be posted on our schedule page as soon as they are
available. |
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The Daughters of Bluegrass
are now on
YouTube! View the IBMA World of Bluegrass performances from
Mindy Rakestraw;
Jeanette Williams & Michelle Nixon;
Heather Berry;
Dale Ann Bradley;
Frances Mooney;
All The Daughters; and even your very own
Becky Buller by clicking on each of their names. You
will be directly transported to the wonderful world of YouTube!
Have fun! |
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The Daughters of Bluegrass have been nominated for
SPBGMA's
"Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year" awards for their
latest album "Back To the Well" on
Blue
Circle Records. The 33rd SPBGMA Awards Show will take place
on Sunday, Feb. 4 at Nashville's
Sheraton Music City Hotel. Several of the Daughters have
been nominated individually as well. For a complete listing,
please click
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The Daughters of Bluegrass were honored with IBMA's 2006
Recorded Event of the Year award during the all-star gala event
held at the Grand Ol' Opry House in Nashville, Tenn., the night
of Sept. 28. In her haste to get to the stage, Becky nearly
knocked her date over. (He has since forgiven her.)
Marty
Raybon and
Sam Bush helped the Daughters on stage as well as bestowing
this honor upon them. Becky didn't trip, though wearing heels
and prone to gracelessness, as aforementioned. Congratulations
to all the Daughters, producers
Lorraine Jordan and Dale Perry, and everyone at
Blue
Circle Records on a job well done! |
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The dimpled
Daughters of
Bluegrass and "Back to the Well" moves UP from #20 to #17 on
the November Bluegrass Unlimited "National Survery." Way to go,
gals! |
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The first
round of IBMA ballots are back! We're excited to let you know
that Becky has been nominated for the following:
Fiddler of
the Year
Female
Vocalist
Valerie
Smith & Liberty Pike were remembered in these categories:
Album of
the Year ("That's What Love Can Do")
Song of the
Year ("In Those Mines" by Becky Buller)
Female
Vocalist
And the
Daughters of Bluegrass are up for
Song of the
Year ("Back To The Well")
Recorded
Event of the Year
Album of
the Year
Thanks to
everyone who voted! Just two more rounds to go!
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Becky stopped
by to chat with Terry Bauer at
Reality Radio June 1st
at WGNS in Murfreesboro, Tenn. You can listen to the show --
which went from Bluegrass music to Jordan to reality TV to
natural childbirth -- by
clicking here. |
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The
Daughters of
Bluegrass entered
Bluegrass Unlimited's June 2006 chart at #29. Way to go,
gals! |
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"In Those
Mines" fell to #13 on the
Bluegrass Unlimited
chart for June 2006. But, hey! It's still on there! |
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The
Daughters of
Bluegrass CD release party is set for August 31 at the
Station Inn in good ol’ Nashvegas. Please join us!
Also, I
do believe they have a contest going on at
www.DaughtersOfBluegrass.com. Check it out!
Ok. One
more thing: The Daughters are at #10 on the
www.RootsMusicReport.com chart. Woo-hoo! |
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Up,
up…can this be true? In the wild blue! “In Those Mines” moved
up in the May issue of
Bluegrass Unlimited.
It’s at #9 this month. Yea! The album is down to #12, but
still hanging in there.
“Master’s Garden” is still holding onto the
Bluegrass Now
charts at #10 for May. |
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Bluegrass Now had a nice story about Becky in the April
issue. Check it out at:
BluegrassNow.com. Thanks, Deb and Shari! |
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Becky and Val have been
invited to be guest instructors at the
Riverbend
Bluegrass Music Camp Oct. 13 -15, 2006, in Ocilla, Ga. And
what, pray tell, will they be teaching? Why, Female
Vocalizations and Songwriting, of course! Hope you can join
them for some fun in the South Georgia sun! |
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"Master's Garden" is hanging in there on the
Bluegrass Now
"Gospel Truthes" chart at #10 for April.
That's 10 months! |
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"Back to the
Well," the new album from the
Daughters of
Bluegrass was released Mar. 14 on
Blue Circle Records. The
project, headed up by Lorraine Jordan of
Carolina Road Band,
and features many of the industry's finest ladies, including our
very own Becky Buller as well as
Valerie Smith,
Dale Ann Bradley,
Beth
Lawrence, Gena Britt,
Julie Elkins, Dixie
Hall and many more. For more information, go to
DaughtersOfBluegrass.com. |
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"In Those Mine" off of
Valerie Smith &
Liberty Pike's "That's What Love Can Do" BBR-017 record
moved up a whopping four spaces to #10 in the April issue of
Bluegrass Unlimited
Magazine! That's a big TOP TEN TUNE, good buddies! The
album is holding steady at #10 for the second month on the album
chart.
Not only is
this big news for
VSLP, it's big news for Becky B. This is her first Top Ten
as a writer on the Bluegrass Unlimited charts. Woo-hoo!! |
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Check out the March issue of
Maverick Magazine,
the United Kingdom's premiere voice for Country Music. Alan
Cackett wrote a lovely article about Becky on page 46. Even
cooler is the fact that it's right between pieces on Becky's
friends the Abrams
Brothers and hero
Dolly Parton. |
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Thanks
to the fine folks at
D'Addario for offering Becky an endorsement. She has
been playing their heavy gauge
Helicore fiddle strings for several years now and highly
recommends them. |
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Minnesota Public Radio met up with the band at Famous Dave's BBQ
just outside of Owatonna, Minn., last Thursday. The
interview was broadcast during All Things Considered.
Naturally, Becky—being the NPR fan that she is—is still
swooning. To listen to the interview, please
click here. |
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March Chart Action
"That's What Love Can Do"
cracked Bluegrass
Unlimited's Top 10 Album Chart for March, rising up to the
#10 spot. Their single "In Those Mines" is currently at
#14.
"Master's Garden" is
currently at #4 on Bluegrass Now's Gospel Truths Chart. This makes it 9
months on the chart. Thanks, everybody! Glad you're
enjoying the tunes! (By the by, "Master's Garden" was also
at #4 on the BN Gospel Truths Chart in February. Whoops!
Forgot to get that up here!) |
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