Drew on Mountain Stage - November 9, 2008
Drew Emmitt is NOW featured on West Virginia Public Radio's Mountain Stage radio show. Taped before a live audience, Mountain Stage records 26 2-hour episodes a year and has been on the air since 1983.
This episode is now up, so go check it out now!
For more information on Mountain Stage and to find out where to listen in, click here
http://www.mountainstage.org/
The Emmitt-Nershi Band Announces New Years Eve Plans. - October 28, 2008
The Emmitt-Nershi Band has announced their plans for New Years Eve 2008. For the 2nd year in a row Drew will be joining The Del McCoury Band at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. After hearing about all the fun from last year, Billy has decided to join in the great big pickin session this year as well and it was only a matter of time before the whole band decided to join the festivities! Keep an eye out as more information to be announced soon!
Emmitt-Nershi band announce OCT tour - August 1, 2008
check out tour date page for more info!
The Long Road in stores NOW! - July 15, 2008
“Lord you know I’ve been so many places/At least I know I have a longer view”, sings Leftover Salmon lead singer and mandolin player Drew Emmitt over a rollicking mandolin lick on the title track of his third solo effort, Long Road. “I’ve been on the road since the 80’s – can you believe that? That’s 25 years, a quarter of a century…Long Road is all about where I’ve been, what I’ve seen, where I’ve ended up and I invited all of my friends I met along the way to help me tell the story.”
Revered as one of the most energetic and innovative mandolin players on the jamband/newgrass scene today, Emmitt’s “inestimable talents” (An Honest Tune) don’t end with just the instruments that can be picked. Holding the wheel steady on acoustic and electric slide mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar and mandola, Long Road also showcases Emmitt’s superlative storytelling and versatile vocal abilities. With seven originals, including co-writes with John Cowan (“Long Road”) and Jim Lauderdale (“I’m Alive”), Emmitt saavily chose a few best-of-life-on-the-road songs, such as Supertramps’ “Take the Long Way Home”, Marshall-Tucker Band’s “Take the Highway”, and Van Morrison’s “Gypsy in my Soul”. Co-produced by Emitt and Compass Records co-founder Garry West, “my heaven band”, is how Emmitt describes the special guest musicians on Long Road: Billy Nershi of The String Cheese Incident (dobro), Chris Pandolfi of The Infamous Stringdusters (banjo), Andy Hall of The Infamous Stringdusters (dobro), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Tim O’Brien (harmony vocals), Alison Brown (banjo), Darrell Scott (vocals), Eric Thorin (bass), Jeff Sipe of The Aquarium Rescue Unit (drums), John Cowan (vocals), Reese Wynans (Hammond B3), Steven Sandifer (percussion) and Tyler Grant (guitar). Hallelujah.