Artist: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Help Is On The Way
Though it’s been barely a year since Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s last release, there’s been a thorough change in personnel, with but one member remaining. Three departing musicians, including longtimer Jamie Dailey, have been replaced, and for the first time, a sixth player has been added (resonator guitarist Josh Swift). In some spheres, such changes [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #69 May-June 2007
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – More Behind The Picture Than The Wall
A select few musicians have, while exploring their own unique sound, plugged into traditional music at its spiritual core (Duke Ellington would probably head the list). For almost three decades and dozens of recordings, that vital connection has energized the music of Doyle Lawson. Alternating of late between gospel and secular recordings while marshaling an [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Alan Jackson / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Del McCoury Band
There’s a joyful noise in the air, a music of spiritual uplift that is undeniable and, to these ears, irresistible. Whatever the reason for the glut of Christian albums by secular artists in recent release, the most inspired and inspirational of this music could make the spine of an atheist tingle and cause an agnostic [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper
Surely it hasn’t escaped notice that we are enjoying a rare and multi-generational bluegrass renaissance. It is easy to take for granted that the next album from, say, Alison Krauss or Nickel Creek or the Del McCoury Band will be of this same high caliber, but one should never lose sight of the transitory magic [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Silver Anniversary Show – War Memorial Auditorium (Nashville, TN)
A School Of Bluegrass is the title of a two-disc collection of rehearsal and live show recordings released by bluegrass master Doyle Lawson to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his band, and though it wasn’t formally intended to do so, the marathon Silver Anniversary Show proved the phrase to be a plain and simple fact. [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #49 Jan-Feb 2004
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Thank God
For a few years, after a string of excellent gospel albums that owed at least as much to the southern gospel quartet tradition as to bluegrass, it looked as if Doyle Lawson and his band might never make a bluegrass album again. But 2002′s mostly secular Hard Game Of Love brought them back to the [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002
Doyle Lawson – Tennessee Dream
“The forerunner of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver” is how bluegrass giant Lawson once described this album, released in 1977 while he was still a member of the Country Gentlemen. From the influential mandolinist’s own career perspective, that’s true enough — it was his first solo effort — but where Quicksilver’s emphasis has been almost exclusively [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Doyle Lawson – Quicksilver’s message in service
Doyle Lawson is an interviewer’s dream. Good-humored and thoughtful as he fields questions countless previous interviewers have probably thrown his way, he also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of bluegrass history and a remarkable mind for detail. The 55-year-old bandleader, arranger, singer, mandolinist/multi-instrumentalist, booking agent and record producer remains very much a student of bluegrass music, [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – The Original Band
First, the facts: These two CDs collect four of the most influential bluegrass albums ever made. For anyone with an interest in bluegrass (as opposed to an individual artist here and there), they are required listening. Why? Because Doyle Lawson and his bands created and elaborated on a new sound that was put together so [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #11 Sept-Oct 1997
Paul Williams – Ain’t God Good / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Kept & Protected
Until arriving in Tennessee a few months back I had no notion that the entire thriving subgenre of gospel bluegrass existed. That gospel was part of the bluegrass canon was inescapable, for one inevitably reads about the influence of shape note gospel singing on the formulation of the genre, but that specialists existed, had evolved…there [...]
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