Artist: Don Rigsby
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006
Don Rigsby & Midnight Call – Hillbilly Heartache
Don Rigsby has been an integral part of several high-profile groups (J.D. Crowe & the New South, Lonesome River Band, Longview, Rock County) and has released a handful of solo recordings, but this album signals his arrival as a bandleader. The band, in this case, is Rigsby’s regular touring unit: guitarist Shayne Bartley, fiddler Jesse [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Don Rigsby – Facing the music
The first song on Don Rigsby’s new solo album, The Midnight Call, describes a man who goes looking for his girlfriend only to find her lying dead on a hospital table. In the second song, a man gets a phone call from his dead mother. The third takes place in a divorce court; the fourth [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001
Dudley Connell / Don Rigsby – Another Saturday Night
This second entry from two of the most recognizable singers in bluegrass — Dudley Connell with the Seldom Scene, Don Rigsby with the Lonesome River Band, and both with Rounder supergroup Longview — finds them mostly on different ground than their enhanced brother-duet debut, 1999′s Meet Me By The Moonlight. Recorded at Tom T. Hall’s [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Don Rigsby – Empty Old Mailbox
Don Rigsby made his solo recording debut with an all-gospel album. He sings and plays with traditional bluegrass “supergroup” Longview, and has been widely seen as the traditional anchor of the modern bluegrass pace-setting Lonesome River Band. But if you think you’ve got him pegged, think again; on Empty Old Mailbox, his second solo CD [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Dudley Connell / Don Rigsby – Meet Me By The Moonlight
Dudley Connell’s distinctive, throaty voice was, for many years, one of the aural hallmarks of the dynamic Johnson Mountain Boys. Don Rigsby’s crystalline tenor provides the hair-raising high harmony for the Lonesome River Band. More recently, the two found themselves in the same band, a bluegrass supergroup called Longview, putatively fronted by vocalist James King. [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999
A Tribute To The Stanley Tradition: Unlimited Tradition – Mountain Arts Center (Prestonburg, KY)
About 20 minutes east of Lexington, Kentucky, the Mountain Parkway veers away from Interstate 64, narrowing down as it rises up through the hills of eastern Kentucky to Salyersville, the Magoffin County seat. From there, an even smaller road winds even higher until, just as an urbanite begins to wonder if he’s lost the way, [...]
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