Dailey & Vincent to Release First Ever Country Album
It’s always exciting when one of your favorite country artists like Dwight Yoakam, Alan Jackson, or Sturgill Simpson decides to cut a bluegrass album. It’s pretty rare to have a bluegrass outfit decide to flip the script and make a country album. But that’s exactly what Grand Ole Opry members and long-time bluegrass and Gospel duo Dailey & Vincent have decided to do.
Already heavily renown and awarded in both Gospel and bluegrass including a whopping 35 IBMA bluegrass awards, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent will be releasing their first official country album on September 16th called Let’s Sing Some Country! via BMG. It’s the duo’s first original album in over five years.
Since this is Dailey & Vincent, you know when they say “country,” it won’t be a close approximation, it will be an authentic rendering of country sounds and sentiments. Produced by Paul Worley, if anything, it will have textures of bluegrass mixed in with country songs, and that is what you hear from the album’s debut single “I’ll Leave My Heart in Tennessee” written by Karen Staley—a song voted earlier this year to be an official state song of the State of Tennessee. Jamie Dailey’s highlonesome vocals make this a worthy rendition (listen below).
“Recording this project of material for BMG has been one of the biggest highlights of our career,” say Dailey & Vincent. “Working with legendary producer Paul Worley, picking great songs, and putting the best musicians in a room to help us create the art of music has been an education and an unforgettable experience. This collection of music is what we’ve dreamed of recording for a long time. We hope you will enjoy our version of Country music.”
Other songwriting contributors include Vince Gill who lends multiple songs, Ashley Monroe, Alison Krauss, Jimmy Fortune, Steve Earle and Jimbeau Hinson through the duo’s rendition of Earle’s “Hillbilly Highway,” as well as Darrin Vincent’s sister Rhonda Vincent.
Dailey & Vincent were formed in 2008 after Jamie Dailey left as the lead vocalist and guitarist for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver where he performed from 1999-2008, and formed a band with bassist/mandolinist Darrin Vincent, who previously played with Ricky Skaggs in Kentucky Thunder, as well as with his sister in the family band The Sally Mountain Show.
Highly acclaimed in bluegrass, this new album will give country fans he opportunity to delve into what Dailey & Vincent are all about. Let’s Sing Some Country! is now available for pre-order.
TRACK LIST:
- “I’ll Leave My Heart in Tennessee” (Karen Staley)
- “You Rescued Me” (Wes Cleve Clark, A.J.Clark, Rory M. Bourke)
- “Hillbilly Highway” (Steve Earle, Jimbeau Hinson)
- “Colder Than Winter” (Vincent Grant Gill)
- “Those Memories Of You” (Alan O’Bryant)
- “Dig A Little Deeper In The Well” (Jodie Emerson, Roger Bowling)
- “Closer To You” (Jimmy Fortune, Justin Peters)
- “Feels Like That Again” (Karen Staley, Keith Burns)
- “Young Man’s Town” (Vincent Grant Gill)
- “Message From The Farm” (Daryl Burgess, Mark Matejka)
- “If I Die Drinkin’” (Vincent Grant Gill, Ashley Monroe)
August 4, 2022 @ 9:13 am
“Young Man’s Town” is one of my favorite Vince Gill songs. Looking forward to hearing D&V’s take on it.
August 4, 2022 @ 10:05 am
Im stoked for this from one of my favorite bluegrass bands! When was the last time a bluegrass artist made a country album? Ricky Skaggs in the 80s?
August 4, 2022 @ 10:56 am
Rhonda Vincent has made a few attempts at mainstream acceptance, including a video for this one that was featured on CMT in 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acpOlnLDXag
I loved her WRITTEN IN THE STARS album, released by Giant Records in the ’90s.
August 4, 2022 @ 3:01 pm
She also had a country single in 2004 “If heartaches had wings”
August 4, 2022 @ 3:15 pm
I liked the album Rhonda Vincent did with Daryle Singletary in 2017, also. I saw them perform at CMA Fest and it was the only time I got to see Daryle perform. I also saw Dailey and Vincent at CMA Fest, and since someone down by the board mentioned Ralph Stanley II, I’ll mention that I saw him at the same stage where I saw Dailey and Vincent.
I watched yesterday’s CMA Fest TV special and shake my head at how much less country the festival is now than even a very few years ago. Sure, there was a ton of pop country then, too, but you could also find a good many quality artists like those I mentioned above.
August 4, 2022 @ 11:00 am
Alison Krauss’ 2017 WINDY CITY album was mostly country covers.
August 4, 2022 @ 10:57 am
I’d like to hear them take a run at “All the Gold in California” or other Gatlin Brothers material. “Love of a Lifetime” or “Talking to the Moon” would be great too.
August 4, 2022 @ 11:11 am
Got a chance to see them last winter, and really enjoyed their music, so this should be a great album! They are so talented and surround themselves with gifted musicians.
August 4, 2022 @ 11:33 am
I really liked this song and look forward to hearing the rest. I wish Ralph Stanley ll made more country albums because his “This One Is ll” was really good. Had some Keith Whitley vibes.
August 4, 2022 @ 11:49 am
This is great news. I have followed them since the beginning. Will be interesting. Since it sounds country, forget the radio. But we have it here!!
Trig, this is why we love you.
August 5, 2022 @ 2:16 am
As others have noted, sadly, radio will never play any of this because these guys are not 20-something, “stud-of-the-week” artists who will release one album and never be heard from again. They have a long track record in gospel and bluegrass, both genres that radio hates and totally ignores nowadays. Thankfully we have a few Americana and Red Dirt Radio stations around the country, usually heard on HD Radio subchannels such as Oklahoma City’s KNAH “The Rooster” who will play this music.
August 5, 2022 @ 8:06 am
We saw Vince Gill at the Opry House last night where he sang “Young man’s Town”. Its a really good song. Looking forward to hearing D&V’s version.
August 5, 2022 @ 9:36 am
My wife and I have attended 120 D&V concerts. To say we are fans is a gross understatement. Love their music. Always highest talent of musicians on stage. Looking forward to this country album.
August 5, 2022 @ 6:17 pm
I am a big fan of traditional country, bluegrass, and Gospel. I was a DJ in mainstream AM, and FM radio beginning in the mid seventies. In my later years, I began doing two streaming radio shows live, on http://www.thebluegrassjamboree.com. Listen to Mountain Bluegrass with David Pugh on Sunday nights, and my traditional country radio show, Kentucky Mountain Jubilee with David Pugh on Tuesday nights. I play the good stuff, and you will be hearing this new album by Dailey & Vincent.
August 6, 2022 @ 7:03 am
You can see their show Sundays 12:30 central on Çirçle tv will