Upcoming Bluegrass Shows:
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Feb 1-3 SPBGMA Music Awards Nashville, TN
Feb 9 Golden Circle Opry Jackson, TN
Malesus Community Center
Mar 1 Laster's Bluegrass Benefit Show Humboldt, TN
(The Abbey On Main)
Apr 3 Wild Game Dinner & Expo Jackson, TN
Englewood Baptist Church
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NEWS... Stone County Connection Places 2nd Place!
Stone County Connection recently competed in the SPBGMA International Band Competition in Nashville, TN. The band placed 2nd overall.
NEW CD!!!
After working several months in the studio, we are excited to announce that SCC's long-awaited debut CD is finished! Special guests, Brandon Apple, Carl Franklin and Becky Goodrum appear on fiddle. Ronnie Owen engineered this project at The Stables Recording Studio.
The recording contains ten slections taken from traditional bluegrass, original instrumentals, and classic country music. Additionally, the recording contains two gospel tunes.
The new self-titled CD is now available for purchase. Click here for more details.
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Phillip Williams (mandolin), Kevin Wright (guitar),
Kurt Stephenson (banjo) & Curtis Mann (bass)
Here is a pleasant offering of bluegrass performed by the Jackson, Tenn., based Stone County Connection. This self-titled disc consists mostly of familiar pieces like "East Virginia Blues," "Gotta Travel On," and "Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong," along with seven others. The lone exception is the instrumental "Big Will" composed by the group's guitarist, Kevin Wright. Stone County Connection has created an agreeable project, and what is lacking in originality is compensated for by skilled execution.
Bluegrass Unlimited, April 2007
Jackson, Tennessee’s Stone County Connection is Kevin Wright, guitar/vocals; Kurt Stephenson, banjo, mandolins, vocals; Curtis Mann, bass and vocals; and Phillip Williams, mandolin/vocals. Guest fiddlers are Becky Goodrum, Brandon Apple and Carl Franklin. The vocals and harmonies are solid and tight on these numbers and some good examples are Cold Sheets Of Rain and the moving Gotta Travel On. Wright’s vocals are pleasant yet powerful, especially on numbers such as the ballad Tennessee Blues, Heartaches By The Number, and I’ll Talk It All Over With Him, which also displays his fluid flatpicking skills. These boys can also pick as evidenced on Bill Monroe’s Old Brown County Barn and Wright’s original Big Will. Other selections include Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong, He Must Have Loved Me A Lot and East Virginia Blues.
Bluegrass Music Profiles, May/June 2007 Issue
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