CELEBRATING 32 YEARS!!
OUR FIRST LIVE RECORD--RECORDED AT ETSU IN JOHNSON CITY, TN--WILL BE AVAILABLE APRIL 17, 2026 IN OUR STORE!! FROM DOWN THE ROAD RECORDS, FEATURING THE BAND--WAYNE, TIM, JASON, SHAWN AND GARY--WITH SPECIAL GUESTS BARRY BALES, JUSTIN MOSES, SIERRA HULL, GAVEN LARGENT, TOM ADAMS, GRAYSON LANE, JACOB BURLESON AND ALAN O'BRYANT. STAY TUNED....
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NEW SINGLES!
NEW SINGLES! "Is Now the Time" written by Wayne Taylor and Beth Snapp, #1 on Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart Dec. 5, 2025! "Muddy Shoes" written by Shawn Lane and Gerald Ellenburg was #2 on Banjo Radio's Top Twenty Jan. 24-Feb. 2. Stream them on your favorite platforms now!
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We look forward to seeing each of you on the road! Our warmest thanks and best wishes to all of you and your families ~ from all of us in the Blue Highway family!
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In 2026, the highly-esteemed bluegrass band Blue Highway celebrates 32 years of touring, with four of the original members still intact. The group has released two recent singles, “Is Now the Time?” (Written by Wayne Taylor and Beth Snapp)--the #1 song on the Bluegrass Today National Radio Survey on Dec. 5, 2025--and “Muddy Shoes.” (Written by Shawn Lane and Gerald Ellenburg) On April 17, they celebrate with the release of a 30-year Retrospective recording, Live at ETSU!
Its single “Lonesome State of Mind” was named the MOST-PLAYED SONG IN BLUEGRASS MUSIC of 2023 by Bluegrass Today.
The band has earned a collective 32 IBMA Awards, 6 SPBGMA Awards, one Dove Award, plus three Grammy nominations. Most recently, the band was nominated for IBMA's 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 Vocal Group of the Year as well as Song of the Year Awards.
Blue Highway's #1 album Original Traditional was nominated for a 2017 GRAMMY Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
Blue Highway was voted the Favorite Bluegrass Artist of All Time by the readers of Bluegrass Today in April 2016.
Tim Stafford received honors as 2001 and 2015 SPBGMA Guitar Player of the Year and 2014, 2017 and 2023 IBMA Songwriter of the Year. He co-wrote the 2008 IBMA song of the year--recorded by the band--"Through the Window of a Train."
Wayne Taylor was inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in October 2016. Shawn Lane was nominated as 2016 IBMA Songwriter of the Year.
"Both Ends of the Train" was nominated for IBMA's 2020 Song of the Year.
Blue Highway charted the Most Radio Airplay of any Bluegrass Artist in 2014, per the 2014 Bluegrass Today Radio Airplay Chart, storming national airplay charts with their heralded album The Game, which topped multiple charts, including reigning at # 1 for 7 consecutive months on the Bluegrass Unlimited Album Chart, and was named the #1 Bluegrass Album of the Year by critic Daniel Mullins in his end of the year Top 20 Albums of 2014 list in Bluegrass Today.
2026 will see the release of the band's first live record, Live at ETSU! on Down the Road records with special guests Barry Bales, Jacob Burleson, Grayson Lane, Tom Adams, Alan O'Bryant, Justin Moses, Gaven Largent and Sierra Hull.
As momentum continues to build for the quarter-century strong powerhouse band, Blue Highway is rolling on with a rich legacy and three powerhouse songwriters, instrumentalists and vocalists in Tim Stafford, Wayne Taylor, and Shawn Lane, whose harmonies soar over the dynamic banjo of Jason Burleson and the tasteful Dobro of Gary Hultman.
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WORD IS OUT!! The 4th annual Blue Highway Fest will be held Oct. 8-11 2026 in beautiful Big Stone Gap, VA. Simply one of the BEST festivals in the U.S. celebrating Bluegrass and roots music--named IBMA's Event of the Year! Featuring Blue Highway and their guests, plus the Songwriters round on Thursday, Oct. 8, gospel show Sunday Oct. 11! Tickets available soon at www.Bluehighwayfest.com
SEE YOU THERE!!!!
"Lonesome State of 
"Lonesome State of Mind" written by Tim Stafford and Bobby Starnes is #1 on the Nationwide Bluegrass Today Monthly Airplay chart for the months of February and March 2023! Thanks to all the deejays and folks who have requested our music. #rounderrecords #bluehighway #bluegrassmusic #bluegrass #bluegrassfan
Check out Derek Halsey's great review article on the Innaugural Blue Highway Fest in January 2023's Bluegrass Unlimited! https://www.bluegrassunlimited.com/article/blue-highway-fest/
NEW SINGLE!!! The band is proud to announce its new single, "Lonesome State of Mind" is now available everywhere music is streamed. The song, written by Tim Stafford and Bobby Starnes, is a classic banjo-driven bluegrass heartache number featuring Wayne Taylor on lead vocal, great solos from Jason Burleson, Gary Hultman and Shawn Lane and a classic Wayne/Shawn duet! Have a listen here.
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