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2017 release. Big Country Bluegrass has been making music for 30 years, and Let Them Know I'm From Virginia is a celebration of the bands' commitment to-and love of-traditional bluegrass music. Founded by husband and wife Tommy and Teresa Sells, Big Country Bluegrass performed it's first show in January 1987 and since that time has made many notable contributions to the bluegrass community. This recording, the bands' fourth with Rebel Records, does the same! Big Country Bluegrass is known for it's hard-driving sound and fine selection of material. The group has had a long standing and fruitful relationship with songwriting legend Tom T. Hall and his late wife Dixie-a combination that has produced such hits as "The Boys in Hats and Ties," "I'm Putting on My Leaving Shoes" and "Bluefield West Virginia Blues," all cuts that have reached #1 on Bluegrass Unlimited's National Airplay Chart. This album features two more Tom T. & Dixie Hall originals, "The Old Crooked Trail" and "If I Ever Get Home," as well as songs by such fine writers as the late James King, Glenn Alford, Marvin Morrow, Tracy O'Connell and Eric Marshall, among others.
