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Bill and I are very pleased to announce that we have been nominated for Vocal Group of the Year in the Americana category for the AMCA awards for 2014!  That means we finished among the top three of the nominees voted on this year in that category.  It warms our hearts to receive that kind of recognition from our music community here in southwestern Virginia.

 

                                 

Sweet Peace – our latest CD was released in May 2013. It was recorded at After 5 Studio by Jody King, who also did the producing, mixing and mastering. The photography was by Cheri Williams. Bill is playing a Brazilian OOOO short scale guitar he made and Maggie is playing that same sweet sapele dobro Bill made years ago for her. Bill is also playing a carved bass he put together and Jody is playing a banjo he made on “Stony Creek”.

Our latest CD – Sweet Peace, is just now being released. The titles on it are:

      1. Lonesome Pine – Wayne Taylor

      2. Sing Me Back Home – Merel Haggard

      3. Man Can't Live on Bread Alone – Charley Stefi/Gene Ellsworth/Brad Rogers

      4. He Walked All the Way Home – David Norris

      5. Mountain Song – Chad Jerrers, Kieran Kane

      6. Some Day – Olive Stockton, Tim Stafford

      7. Stony Creek – Jesse McReynolds

      8. Mamma's Hand - Hazel Dickens

      9. Ringing off the Hill – C.J. Anderson (our son)

      10. Just Lovin' You – J. O”Hara, K. Kane

      11. Mary Did You Know? - Mark Lowry, Buddy Greene

      12. Catfish John – McDill, Reynolds

      13. He Whispers Sweet Peace to Me - traditional

 

Here we are being recorded on the April 2, 2011 Song of the Mountains show.  This program is recorded live at the Lincoln Theater in Marion, VA and then shown on more than 160 PBS stations.  We're still getting responses from people from all across the country to our last show that we did in 2009 for Song of the Mountains.  Now we're hearing from people who have seen us on the 2011 show.  Here are pictures from that show:

          

The Master's Garden is all-gospel.  It was recorded, mixed, and produced by Jimmy Edmonds and mastered by Wes Easter in 2010.  Jimmy even played fiddle for us on a couple of the songs!

                                    

We've have gotten really good response so far and hope you like it too. 

The October 2010 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited said "Anyone familiar with the music of Bill and Maggie Anderson would certainly do well to pick up on their latest collection of heartfelt gospel music".  

Read more about it and see the song list on our CD page.  You can also go to our fan page on Facebook "Bill and Maggie Anderson", and hear some clips from the songs.

 

We're still getting a good response to our High on a Mountain  CD that we released last year.

 The November 2009 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited  said: "For homespun vocals supported by dynamic instrumentation, it would be almost impossible to top the music of Bill and Maggie Anderson."

                                             

Find out more about it on our CD playlist page.

We continue to love our home in the mountains!  Our contact info is:

                            Bill and Maggie Anderson

                            2715 Millstone Road

                            Woodlawn, VA 24381

 Phone: 276-238-1375. 

or e-mail us at BillandMaggie@vintageacoustic.cc

For the fifth year now we will be playing  every Wednesday during the summer months of 2011 starting at the end of May at the Blue Ridge Music Center.  That's at mile marker 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  We will be in the luthier shop or in the breezeway, depending on the weather. Bill will be talking about guitar building  and Maggie will be demonstrating some of the mountain instruments like the autoharp and the dulcimer.  We'll also be sharing our music and chatting with visitors to the music center.  Hope to see you there!  We'll be around from about 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Wednesdays.

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 We're getting more and more opportunities to play near our new home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Check out our bookings on our 2011 Calendar page. 

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Bill continues to be  an authorized C. F. Martin warranty repair person.  He is one of only a select few in the world to be certified as such (only about 300).  Bring by your Martin when you see us for him to evaluate for you.

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Bill has gotten back into fixing basses and has put together a number of hybrid basses (carved top with laminate sides and back).  Check that out on the Guitar and Basses page..

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Bill is also making a new model of guitar.  It's a short scale OOOO model (Martin calls it an M model).  It has great balance and tone.  Check that out too on the Guitar and Basses page.

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A big highlight of our schedule this year is that we're playing for the "Song of the Mountains" show again. This is a big deal for us!  We were on it a few years back and people are still telling us they saw us on TV.   It's recorded live at the Lincoln Theater in Marion, VA.  and distributed to about 163 PBS TV stations nationwide with the number of affiliates carrying the show increasing.  Check it out at www.songofthemountains.org.    On the show, April 2, 2011 besides us will be Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers, Bluestone, Sweet Potato Pie, and Lorrie Carter Bennett with Ronnie Williams.  Check it out!!

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