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The Lonesome Road
- Released
- September 25, 2026
- Style
- Traditional Bluegrass
- Record label
- Rebel Records
- Year
- 2026
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About the Song
"So many of the groups that have influenced us in High Fidelity were influenced by the Delmore Brothers, and performed songs from them that have become standards in bluegrass today. While going through her music library one day, Corrina was thinking about this so she started looking at the Delmore Brothers reportoire. She saw this title, listened to it, and thought it might be a unique one for us. I did a little research and figured out that it was a Gene Austin song from 1927 titled “The Lonesome Road.” I compared the lyrics, melody, and chords like I usually do and with that info we came up with what we have here. This is our 100% High Fidelity arrangement of a song that, to our knowledge, has never been done in bluegrass before." -Jeremy Stephens
Credits
- Songwriter
- Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret
- Lead Vocals
- Jeremy Stephens
- Harmony Vocals
- Corrina Rose Stephens
- Jeremy Stephens
- Guitar
- Corrina Rose Stephens
- Fiddle
- Kurt Stephenson
- Banjo
- Daniel Amick
- Mandolin
- Norbert McGettigan III
- Bass
High Fidelity
2019, 2020, 2021 IBMA New Artist Nominees
Many folks remember the great bluegrass records from the 1950s and ‘60s. The power and soul of that music has won the hearts of people across the globe. Few bands have come along in recent years that directly draw their influence from that classic era of the music’s history. High Fidelity is a rising group whose love and devotion to that music is unsurpassed. The name alone says it all: HIGH FIDELITY. How many record albums have you seen from the ‘50s and ‘60s that bear those words? Herein lies the heart of what this group of young performers is all about.
Formed in early 2014, the group received its first achievement with a first place win in the International Band Championship at the 40th Annual Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) Awards in February of 2014. They were nominated for International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) New Artist of the Year for three years in a row, alongside several other nominations in the industry.
The band consists of four outstanding musicians and singers who are steeped in the sounds of tradition. Jeremy Stephens, guitarist, banjoist, and lead vocalist for the group, has worked for the world famous gospel group The Chuck Wagon Gang, on the television show Ray Stevens’ Nashville, and most recently with Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys. Corrina Rose Logston Stephens, fiddler and harmony vocalist, has worked with a who’s who of today’s traditional-based bluegrass performers, most notably Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys and Jim Lauderdale. Kurt Stephenson handles banjo duties and harmony vocals. He is the 2010 National Bluegrass Banjo Champion. Multi-instrumentalist and harmony vocalist Daniel Amick, has won numerous instrumental contests across the southeast and is a recipient of IBMA’s 2019 Instrumentalist of the Year Momentum Award.
High Fidelity draws much of their inspiration from bands like Don Reno & Red Smiley, The Stanley Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Jim & Jesse, and a host of lesser known regional artists from the same era. Many have described them as the new Johnson Mountain Boys, interpreting classic era bluegrass through the fresh, young perspective of today’s generation. Maybe it is this quality that makes High Fidelity so warmly received and widely loved by every audience they perform for – both by the grandparents and the grandchildren.