With her latest album, Highlander, bluegrass/Americana icon Missy
Raines takes inventory of where she stands at this current juncture
in her storied career — this melodic ode to her native West Virginia,
which simultaneously serves as an ideal prism of time and space
Raines peers through into the unknowns of tomorrow.
“Making this record and having this band has been sort of a
homecoming,” the legendary bassist/vocalist says. “I’m at a point in
my life where I’ve been able to look back at what I’ve gone through,
what I’ve done, and the path I ultimately wanted to take.”
Throughout her storied career, Raines has garnered some of the
biggest accolades in the music industry, including 14 International
Bluegrass Music Association honors, with 10 being awarded for
“Bass Player of the Year.” Raines’ 2018 release Royal Traveller was
also nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Bluegrass Album” in
2020.
Highlander brings together some of the finest musicians in Nashville
and beyond, including country star and fellow West Virginian Kathy
Mattea; fiddle virtuosos Michael Cleveland, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes,
Darol Anger and Shad Cobb; renowned bluegrass vocalists Danny
Paisley, Dudley Connell and Laurie Lewis; with dobro wizard Rob
Ickes and banjo great Alison Brown also making guest appearances.
“I’m embracing bluegrass again, and it’s all been incredibly good for
me,” Raines says. “In every sense of the way, I almost can just go
back [in my mind] and rely on those intrinsic things I learned as a
15-year-old in a field at a bluegrass festival — tapping into how I
felt back then, and how I still feel today about this music.”
With modern-day bluegrass currently experiencing another high-
water mark as names like Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle and Sierra Hull
proudly carry the torch of tradition and evolution, Raines finds
solidarity in the ongoing growth and progress of the “high, lonesome
sound” — this fine line between respect and rebellion that Raines
has seamlessly balanced since the beginning.
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