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EMG is excited to announce the release of Compton and Newberry's new single "Silvertone Blues".
By Charles Brady, 2025-02-02
"Silvertone Blues" is the next single from Compton and Newberry's album, Home In My Heart, released in September of 2024.
"Silvertone Blues" showcases Mike Compton and Joe Newberry's nod to traditional and new American music. Mike Compton plays mandolin and handles the Lead Vocals on this track and Joe Newberry the rhythm guitar and harmonies.
""Silvertone Blues" was learned from John Hartford and was written by the late Benny Martin about a Silvertone Guitar he ordered from the Sears Roebuck catalogue when he was a boy. Benny says that "the postman brought it on a big black 'hoss' in a paper box 4 feet long" The second verse describes him making "a dollar and a dime and a quarter" busking (on lower Broadway in Nashville) in front of Hardeman's Feed Store on a Saturday afternoon. " Mike Compton
Online at: http://www.comptonandnewberry.com
Compton and Newberry
A Return to the Roots of Bluegrass!
Mike Compton and Joe Newberry play traditional and new American music that honors the past and forges a path toward the new tradition of the future. While two musicians do not a bluegrass band make, their music rings true to fans of bluegrass, early country, blues, gospel, and string band music. Together, Compton and Newberry are shining a much-deserved contemporary light on the roots, as they tend to the branches. too.
Compton and Newberry are masters of their craft whose combined pedigree speaks for itself. In addition to multiple IMBA and Grammy nominations and wins, their talents have been featured on “A Prairie Home Companion,” the Transatlantic Sessions, the soundtracks to “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Cold Mountain”, as well as numerous other popular collaborations with a diverse range of artists and styles. The duo can be counted on to showcase the sounds that laid the foundation for ragtime, country, folk, rural blues and Americana, as well as other sounds that dominate radio and music charts today.
A Compton and Newberry program features a familiar combination of tunes and songs from the great American songbag mixed with their own newly composed numbers which are already taking their rightful place in the new tradition. They are just the artists to bring fans together for a multi-generational celebration of music we all can love.
Online at: http://www.comptonandnewberry.com
