Howdy Everybody
Well, it’s just about time for school to be finished for a while, so where are we gonna carry the kids for fun and somewhere we’ll have a good time, too! I got just the place for you ! Head out to Branson, Mo., get you a good room and a good night’s sleep, then head over to the best Theme Park in America, Silver Dollar City. When you get inside, you’ll immediately feel like you’ve time-travelled back a hundred years, to a time (“the good old days”) that your grandparents talked about, or maybe you’ve saw on T.V. Yes, it really feels good!! Don’t hesitate to speak to every one of the City’s characters, they’re gonna brighten your day, (guarantee it), they are a great Family! Be sure to ask where is D.A. Callaway, D.A. is the guy responsible with booking all the music at the Bluegrass & Bar-Be-Que Festival, and I imagine All the music during the year at S.D.C. He’ll be sportin’ a big cowboy hat and vest and the biggest “welcome folks” smile at the City. After you’ve walked around a while and enjoyed some of the sites and sounds, have yourself a good lunch (there’s more good eats than you can shake a stick at). Oh yeah!!, be sure and ask D.A. how his garden is lookin’, and if he’s gonna “can” anything this year! I’ll bet he will!! Then if you haven’t found the Boatworks Theatre yet, just ask one of the folks at the City, and they’ll tell you. It’s probably gettin’ close to 2 o’clock by now, so come on down to the Boatworks stage and sit down and enjoy some Bluegrass music by “your’s truly” and all The Warrior River Boys. We’ll be doing four shows between 2 and 6 pm. every day from May 25th through May 28th, right there at the Boatworks Theatre. We’ll have a lot of time to visit while we’re there, so I hope you’ll acquaint yourselves with the Band. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, get yourself a schedule as you enter the gates and then you’ll know where All the stages are around the City and show times for each stage. There’s more Bluegrass music featuring some of the most popular acts in the business at the City during the Bluegrass & Bar-Be-Que Festival than you’ll ever see at one place for the price of one ticket, anywhere! This Festival was voted “the best Bluegrass event of the year” in 2011, an amazing twenty-three days of Bluegrass Music from May 10 through June 3rd. As the old sayin’ goes, “All roads lead to Silver Dollar City”,….. so if you like Bluegrass music at it’s best, if you like BBQ ( best BBQ you’ll ever taste), and more importantly for us And the kids, if you enjoy stepping back in time for a little while, where things aren’t going at such a fast pace, back to where the Grandparents lived, where everybody was a neighbor, let’s go back home for a visit! We’ll see you there!!
P.S. You can get all or any information about Silver Dollar City or The Bluegrass & Bar-Be-Que Festival at www.silverdollarcity.com .

March 24 Dauphin Island, AL. SeaGrass Festival
March 30 Wilmington, OH. Southern Ohio Bluegrass Festival (Roberts Conv. Cntr.) www.somusicfest.com
March 31 Burlington, IA. Festival @Comfort Suites www.tsbafestivals.org
April 20 Ragley, LA. Lone Pine Music Park 7pm.
April 21 Sacul, TX. Sandyland Opry 7pm.
April 22 Spring, TX. Hyde’s Cafe 5pm.
April 23 Paragould, AR. Collins Theatre 7pm.
May 11 Trussville, AL. Paine Intermediate School 8am-11am.
May 11 Flintstone, GA. Mike’s Music 7:30pm.
May 12 Trussville, AL. DogDaze Festival 11am & 1:15pm.
May 25-28  Branson, MO.  Silver Dollar City (Boatworks Theatre Stage) www.silverdollarcity.com
June 2 Tallapoosa,GA. (David, Robert and Stan only)
June 9 Harpers Ferry, WV. Mountain Heritage Festival
June 10 Brunswick, MD. High School Auditorium (brunswickbluegrass.org)
June 11 Bean Blossom, IN. Bill Monroe Music Park (12:40 & 7:30pm.)
June 13 South St. Louis, Mo. Jefferson Barracks Amphitheatre 314-821-1215
June 30 Hiltons, VA. The Carter Family Fold 7pm.
July 3 Manchester, MD. Fireman’s Carnival Grds. 7pm.
July 18 Jamestown, N.D. 7PM.
July 19 Brandon, Manitoba (Tentative)
July 20 Big River, SK. Ness Creek Festival
July 21 Oxbow, SK.
August 2 Parson’s WV. Pickin’ In Parson’s Bluegrass Festival
August 11 Holstein, Ont. Love’s Sugarbush Festival www.bluegrassinholstein.ca
August 24 Lodi, N.Y. Pickin’ In the Pasture Bluegrass Festival www.pickininthepasture.com
August 25 Milton, WV. Mountaineer Opry House 7pm.
August 30 & 31 Grapeland, TX. Salmon Lake Park www.salmonlakepark.com
September 6,7,8 Salem, IL. Bryan Memorial Park
September 14,15,16 Owensboro, KY. Monroe Mandolin Camp (David only)
September 29 Eva, AL. Frontier Days Festival
October 12 McEwen, TN. Blue Creek Arena www.bluecreekarena.com
October Rosine, KY. Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration www.jerusalemridgefestival.org
October 20 Chatom, AL. Courthouse Square 1pm.
November 2 Fairview, OH. Penny Royal Opry 7pm.
November 3 Lucketts, VA. Community Center w/Scott Brannon Band 7pm.
March 23, 2013 Burlington, IA. Festival @ Comfort Suites www.tsbafestivals.org
xxxx Chek back often, as 2012 & 2013 dates will be added as they are booked and finalized.

Hey Everybody !!
If you haven’t seem our show in the last six months, you probably haven’t heard that DDWRB has a couple of new members. First, I’ll start with Stan Wilemon. Stan re-joined the band, on guitar, after being away for a number of years. Alot of you might remember Stan as the group’s bass man in 1987, then 1990 through 1994, also a part of our 1993 Rounder recording, “Sounds Like Home” plus many of the recordings we did for Ray Davis’ Wango label in the early ’90′s. Stan has played a large role in the band since he left in 1994 through his songwriting. We have recorded three of his songs on our last three Rebel recordings, “Lonesome Cry of the Whippoorwill”, “It’s Just An Old Body” and “Willow Valley”. Stan has been on the road since 1994 with groups like The Larry Gillis Band and our Alabama buddy, The Gary Waldrep Band, playing guitar and mandolin and singing a bunch of different parts. It feels real natural having Stan back in the band, pretty much like he never left. I always loved to sing with him, we grew up pretty close together and we always just fit together musically and personally. He’s blessed with a ton of talent, we’re really glad to have him back!
Next, let’s get you acquainted with Ben Sanders, from Madison, Wisconsin. Ben joined the group last October, playing fiddle. He and his wife, (she’s a great fiddle player, too !) live in Nashville, Tennessee. We’ve really been blessed over the years to have great fiddle players in the band, from Al Lester to Charlie Cline, Bill Sage right on up to Owen Saunders, (who left the WRB last October after a 12 year stint). Ben is Super talented, a true professional in his attitude with a great work ethic toward the music and being prepared to show well each time he gets on stage and to complement the band around him. That’s really all you can ask from a person. Everybody in the band is real high on Ben and how he’s fitting into what we’re trying to do, musically.
As a bandleader, it’s always potentially tough when there are band changes, sometimes it’s really hard to get someone who fits, both personally and stylistically, sometimes it takes a while and a lot of effort has to be made to get that “right fit”. This time, it just seemed to fall into place real, real quick. I know Marty Hays and Robert Montgomery, as well as “your’s truely” were thankful for the easy transition!
We’re really looking forward to seeing you on the road this year ! We’ve been travelling alot in the first five months of 2012 and beginning to really get busy for the next few months. I’ll get you a blog with our personal appearances as soon as possible. Our webmaster, Josh is busy building us a new Band website at this time and should have it up very soon. Until then, I’ll try to keep you current on the band and band happenings. If you have specific questions, just let me know and I’ll try to get you a good answer. Hope to hear from you!! Until next time, David

Hello all,

Wanted to apoligize for our website being down for the last few months, I’m really sorry for the inconvenience to you. BUT… our webmaster, Josh, is in the process of building the band a new website, so much Band news (all GOOD, a couple of NEW band members, They’re GOOD, and We’re Good Together!!). The new website will be blog-based and very friendly and hopefully interesting and informative to you. We’ll get our dates up quickly and hope to see you at some of them. Also, I’m gonna start (famous last words) a regular on-going blog that I hope you will chek out (and spend your opinion,too) on a regular basis. With your help and feedback, our give and take will hopefully be fun for us all. With all these great, new opportunities to connect with friends and with people in general, I’ve wanted to start a blog for a while, it seems like a great thing to do! Over the last twenty-five (WOW) years, I’ve had the chance to meet and become friends with so many people , and the sad thing is, I don’t get the chance to visit with them near as much or as often as I’d like to. Over time, hopefully thru the blog, we’ll get to visit and connect more often. That would be great IMHO !! I plan to start posting blogs ASAP, so I’d love for you to chek back as often as you can and I want your feedback. For now, take care!! David