Honey Wont You Open That Door
Buck Billo and Maxi sing “Honey Wont You Open That Door” by Ricky Skaggs. During a talent concert in his midteens, he met Keith Whitley, a fellow fiddler. The two adolescents became friends and began playing together, with Whitley’s brother Dwight on banjo, at various radio shows. By 1970, they earned a spot opening for Ralph Stanley. Following their performance, Stanley invited the duo to join his supporting band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, and they accepted. Over the next two years, they played many concerts with the bluegrass legend and appeared on his record Cry From the Cross. Skaggs also appeared on Whitley’s solo album Second Generation Bluegrass in 1972. Though he had made his way into the bluegrass circuit and was actively recording, Skaggs had grown tired of the hard work and low pay in the Clinch Mountain Boys and left the group at the end of 1972. For a short while, he abandoned music and worked in a boiler room for the Virginia Electric Power Company in Washington, DC, but he returned to performing when the Country Gentlemen invited him to join in 1973. Skaggs spent the next two years with the group, primarily playing fiddle, before joining the progressive bluegrass band JD Crowe & the New South in 1974. The following year, he recorded another duet album with Whitley, That’s It, and then formed his own newgrass band, Boone Creek, in 1976. In addition to bluegrass, the outfit played honky tonk and Western swing. Boone Creek earned the attention of Emmylou …
The 1st Blood Live Band performing the classic ‘Unlikely2Crack’ off their brand new 20 track independent album Bloodleech – ‘Eat Defeat’ Check www.1stBlood.co.uk and www.bloodleech.co.uk for more!!!! The live Band consists of EdDrum Garnham on the Drums, Gravy Granuals on the Bass, Kumarachi on the Moog Voyager, Tommy Gunns on Guitar, Dan Rattomatic on the Decks. Vocally the crew members present are Pete1stBlood & Opticus Ryme Listen or Download the track in its original form along with others at www.1stblood.co.uk 1st Blood family are a collective of writers trying to push the scope of what can and cant be done in the well worn musical genre of Hip Hop. Producing music together for over 8 years , led to Signing with Tricky & Chris Blackwell’s Brownpunk label. It all looked set to work out as 1st Blood had hoped, but unforseen circumstances arose at the label and the album never got released. Brownpunk’s recording contract has now elapsed, having failed to release 1st Blood’s music, so they are now free to sign to another label. The situation did nothing but motivate 1st Blood to continue what they do best, which is make good music and lots of it. Chris Blackwell at Bluemountain remains supportive of the 1st Blood Cause. Immensely catchy solid beats, imaginative synths, tight scratches, scathing social commentary combined with tongue in cheek sensibility, that oozes out the smooth bass heavy productions. Conjoured up by the 1st Blood production powerhouse, masterminded by …