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FEBRUARY 2008

TV ALERT*

Randy Kohrs will appear on the  CBS TV's RACHAEL RAY SHOW
Friday, February 22, 2008
(Check local listings)

On the heels of a Grammy win, Randy Kohrs will appear on the Rachael Ray Show on February 22 before a live studio audience.

The show recently began a series called "The Coolest Kitchens in America" and selected Randy's 50's diner-style kitchen to be featured in an episode.  Design celebrity and frequent on-air correspondence Kristen Cunningham recently paid an on-camera visit to Kohrs' home and studio, where not only was his kitchen featured, but also his band, Randy Kohrs & The Lites.  They performed the next single from his most recent CD, Old Photograph, entitled "She Ain't Coming Back," while sitting on and around the custom-built award-winning diner booth.  The footage will be aired along with an interview with Rachael Ray and Randy.


Randy Kohrs - Old Photograph
#8 Roots Music Bluegrass Report

Single, "Rockwell's Gold"
#18 Bluegrass Music Profiles Top 20 
Hot Singles 2/08

The International Acoustic Music Association just awarded Randy Kohrs the first place prize in the Country/Bluegrass category for “Rockwell’s Gold."

Single, "Who's Goin' With Me"
#20 Bluegrass Unlimited Top 30 Singles 2/08
#20 Bluegrass Music Profiles Top 20 Hot Singles 2/08

Click to view a video of Randy Kohrs playing and singing in the Wechter Guitars booth at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim this past January.

VIDEO UPDATE for "Who's Goin' With Me"
The video for Kohrs’ new single, “Who’s Goin’ With Me,” from the current Rural Rhythm album, Old Photograph debuted at number three in November on the CMT Pure 12-Pack Countdown and reached the number one position just a week later.  It remained in the top five for several weeks following!  Please visit www.cmt.com to view the video.

NEW ALBUM RELEASE



Tim Hensley -  Long Monday

#34 BILLBOARD Bluegrass Top 50 Album Chart this week!

#34 Roots Music Bluegrass Report

#3 Prime Cuts of Bluegrass

Tim Hensley will perform live on the Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree radio show, Saturday, February 23, 2008.  America's second longest running radio show is still being broadcast every Saturday night following the Opry on WSM 650-AM broadcast is 40 States across the U.S.

PRESS!  USA TODAY, CMT.com, Bluegrass Now Magazine, and much more. 

Album featured on Bluegrass Radio Network

Mountain Heart
Road That Never Ends

#31 BILLBOARD'S Top 50  Bluegrass Album Chart this week!

"The Gospel Train" from "The Road That Never Ends" is #14 on Bluegrass Now's Gospel Truth's Chart (3/08)

#1 Single on Sirius Radio Channel 65

#24 Roots Music Bluegrass Report

VIDEO UPDATE for "Road That Never Ends"
The new Music Video goes out to CMT & CMT Pure Country, GAC, Music Choice, Clear Channel, Yahoo Music, AOL Music, Blue Highway TV and many more video outlets.  The video was produced by Scott Hansen from Renown Studio.

Jim VanCleve - No Apologies
Grammy™ Nomination for 
"Best Country Instrumental Performance" for "Nature of the Beast.

Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain

On Friday, February 15, 2008 - Carrie Hassler appeared on CBS KWCH Wichita, KS



Band Kick's Off 2008 Tour in Wichita and heads back to the studio with producer, Jim VanCleve. read more

Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain chosen to perform at the European World of Bluegrass in The Netherlands May 2, 2008

Single, "Going on the Next Train" 

#17 Bluegrass Unlimited Top 30 Singles Chart 2/08
This is the second chart single for this BILLBOARD and Bluegrass Unlimited Chart Album  

#19 Bluegrass Music Profiles Top 20 Hot Singles 2/08

The track, "Least that I Can Do"
#11 Bluegrass Now Magazine Gospel Truths Chart (March 08)

The track, "Leaving You Behind" 
#15 on Sirius Bluegrass Top 40 Songs

The Marksmen - God's Masterpiece

NOMINATED FOR GMA DOVE AWARD 
for Bluegrass Album of the Year

The Marksmen Quartet Named Country Gospel Band of the Year  read more

The Marksmen Quartet Inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame  read more

SOUND TRADITIONS: 
Appalachian Mountain Bluegrass
#16 BILLBOARD'S TOP 50  Bluegrass Chart this week!

#14 Bluegrass Now Top 20 (March 08)

Sound Traditions:
  "That Good Ol' Bluegrass"
#25 BILLBOARD'S Bluegrass Top 50 Album Chart this week!

Sound Traditions:
  "Get In Line Brother"
#26 ON BILLBOARD'S Bluegrass Top 50 Album Chart this week!

Sunday Morning Singin' 
30 Bluegrass Gospel Favorites
#49 ON BILLBOARD'S Bluegrass 
Top 50 Album Chart this week!

Sound Traditions:
  "31 Bluegrass Favorites"
#28 BILLBOARD'S Bluegrass Top 50 Album Chart this week!

The Legendary J.E. Mainer & 
His Mountaineers
40 Classics: Old-Time Mountain Music  
40th Anniversary 2-CD Set

"Bluegrass in the Smokies"
#41 BILLBOARD'S Bluegrass Top 50 Album Chart this week! 

Dwight McCall
Never Say Never Again
“Rock solid, razor sharp and right down the line.  This is what great bluegrass is all about,”   
Terry Herd, Bluegrass Radio Network

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