![]() Tim Stafford was nominated for Album of the Year with his late collaborator, Steve Gulley, for Still Here. ![]() "Both Ends of the Train" was nominated for IBMA's 2020 Song of the Year.īlue Highway charted the Most Radio Airplay of any Bluegrass Artist in 2014, per the 2014 Bluegrass Today Radio Airplay Chart, storming national airplay charts with their heralded album The Game, which topped multiple charts, including reigning at # 1 for 7 consecutive months on the Bluegrass Unlimited Album Chart, and was named the #1 Bluegrass Album of the Year by critic Daniel Mullins in his end of the year Top 20 Albums of 2014 list in Bluegrass Today.Īs momentum continues to build for the quarter-century strong powerhouse band, Blue Highway is rolling on with a rich legacy and three powerhouse songwriters, instrumentalists and vocalists in Tim Stafford, Wayne Taylor, and Shawn Lane, whose harmonies soar over the dynamic banjo of Jason Burleson and the tasteful Dobro of Gary Hultman.īLUE HIGHWAY NOMINATED YET AGAIN FOR VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR AT IBMA!!īlue Highway was nominated yet again for "Vocal Group of the Year" at the 2021 IBMA Awards. The band's latest album "Somewhere Far Away: Silver Anniversary" has charted two # 1 songs to date, and is available in our Music Store. Shawn Lane was nominated as 2015 IBMA Songwriter of the Year. Wayne Taylor was inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in October 2016. He co-wrote the 2008 IBMA song of the year-performed by the band-"Through the Window of a Train." Tim Stafford received honors as 20 SPBGMA Guitar Player of the Year and 20 IBMA Songwriter of the Year. The band was nominated for IBMA's 20 Vocal Group of the Year and Song of the Year Awards.īlue Highway's #1 album Original Traditional was nominated for a 2017 GRAMMY Awardfor Best Bluegrass Album.īlue Highway was voted the Favorite Bluegrass Artist of All Time by the readers of Bluegrass Today in April 2016. The band has earned a collective 32 IBMA Awards, 6 SPBGMA Awards, one Dove Award, plus three Grammy nominations. In 2022, the highly-esteemed bluegrass band Blue Highway celebrates 28 years of touring, with four of the original members still intact. We look forward to seeing each of you on the road! Our warmest thanks and best wishes to all of you and your families ~ from all of us in the Blue Highway family! If a date does not appear on our tour schedule, then it has been rescheduled. The other planted at Inverell has since died.Many of our tour dates are being rescheduled. The tree near the Australian War Memorial in Canberra is grown from seed of a cone sent back to Australia by Benjamen Smith of the 3 rd Battalion. Some have been retained in Warrnambool and some provided to Burnley on behalf of Legacy. This year 2015, seeds were collected from the Warrnambool tree. A similar initiative by Legacy produced more seedlings to commemorate the 75 th anniversary of Gallipoli. Seeds from the Warrnambool tree failed to germinate, but about 150 seedlings were raised from seed from the tree at the Shrine of Remembrance. In 1964, President of Warrnambool Legacy, Tom Griffiths, suggested that for the 50 th anniversary of Gallipoli, seedlings from the original trees be provided for memorial plantings. Still for some it may bring back memories. This is all trivia of course, as it has no connection to our Lone Pine. ♫ In the blue ridge mountains of Virginia, It was Hollywood’s 5 th version of the story from John William Fox’s novel, and the first film shot in three strip technicolour outside of a studio. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was a popular song in the 1930’s after the release of a movie of that name in 1936.
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