missy raines & the new hip
Nashville, TN      Other / Bluegrass Postrock Roots Groove Jazz Folk
    • Songs
    • Stop, Drop & Wiggle (track 8 of ...
    • Inside Out (track 1 of new CD)
    • Basket of Singing Birds (track 2 ...
    • Duke of Paducah (track 3 of new CD)
    • Magnolia (track 4 of new CD)
    • Pootie Tang (track 5 of new CD)
    • In Over Your Head (track 6 of n...
    • Tattoo (track 7 of new CD)
    • Ides of March (track 9 of new CD)
    • Angeline (track 10 of new CD)
    • new hip mashup: magnolia
    • new hip mashup: in over your head
    • new hip mashup: inside out
    • the new hip AND the Angel Band:...
    • the New Hip goes to Merlefest
    • The New Hip: Sea Minor (MerleF...
    • TrackTalk: Pootie Tang
    • TrackTalk: Angeline by missy rai...
    • missy raines & the new hip - CD ...
    • Eye of the Liger - photojournal v...
    • Silver Lake - live at Norm's
    • Inside Out pt. 1 - live at Norm's
    • Inside Out pt. 2 - live at Norm's
    • Stop Drop & Wiggle - the day it ...
    • Duke of Paducah - live at Norm's
    • Stop Drop & Wiggle - live at Gre...
    • Eye of the Liger - live at Cookev...
    • Stop Drop & Wiggle - the video
    • MerleFest Midnight Jam: Missy ...
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Status Twitter_icon_for_status Had a blast jamming with @bustercrabbe Shad Cobb David Peterson and David Harvey @ 12 South Taproom Nashville last night. Got a blister 2!

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Members: Missy Raines, Michael Witcher, Ethan Ballinger, Rob Crawford, Dominick Leslie
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7-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year Missy Raines and her hot band - Mike Witcher, Ethan Ballinger, Dominick Leslie and Rob Crawford - chart new territory.

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Raines’ groundbreaking, adventurous musical career as one of the pre-eminent female bass players began with an unexpected surprise from her father. “My father had been playing a washtub that he’d made himself and then decided impulsively (without consulting my mother) to buy a bass. I was already playing the piano and guitar by then, but when you’re ten or eleven years old and there is a new instrument in the house…well, I couldn’t stay away from it. That’s the bass I still have and play today.”

Growing up in West Virginia, Raines was well placed to join her family in their favorite summer pastime of attending music festivals, which migrated to home picking parties in the winter. Her parents thought nothing of traveling 2-3 hours to go to a jam, and it was at these events that Raines cut her musical teeth.

As Raines’ technique improved she found herself jamming with and then learning from bigger and better players, most notably International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor member Tom Gray (The Country Gentlemen, The Seldom Scene) “I met him through mutual friends when I was 12 and it was one of the biggest deals of my life up to that point,” she remembers. “Tom is an amazing person and he took me under his wing. He says though that I never asked him to show me how to do anything; that I would just talk about how he played. I thought I was picking his brain,” she laughs.

Raines cites her earliest influences as Bill Monroe, The Country Gentleman, The Stanley Brothers, The Bluegrass Alliance, and David Grisman. She then immersed herself in jazz before discovering the music of Joe Jackson in the early 1980s. “I’d never gotten into the rock/pop scene at all - I’d been affected by it peripherally but not directly. And then I got totally caught up in his music and his writing and a whole new world was suddenly opened up for me.”

Professionally, Raines has lent her skills to a variety of projects that have capitalized on her varied interests. She launched her career with experimental bluegrass outfit Cloud Valley and toured with Eddie and Martha Adcock before joining up with The Masters (Adcock, Kenny Baker, Josh Graves and Jesse McReynolds). Raines toured and recorded with Claire Lynch's Front Porch String Band from 1995-2000 and again from 2005-2008, along the way developing a successful duo with band mate Jim Hurst. A stint with the Brother Boys opened Raines' eyes to the value of musical spontaneity.

Missy Raines is now fulfilling a long-held vision: the release of Inside Out, her first full-length album that reflects all of her many musical influences while playing alongside her dream band The New Hip.

 

 

 


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