Missy Raines

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Missy Raines
Born (1962-04-06) April 6, 1962 (age 61)
Short Gap, West Virginia
Genres Bluegrass music
Occupation(s) Musician
Instrument(s) Bass
Labels Compass, Pinecastle, Rounder

Missy Raines (born April 6, 1962) is an American bassist, singer, teacher, and songwriter. She has won 10 International Bluegrass Music Awards for Bass Player of the Year. [1] Missy Raines was the first woman to win IBMA Bass Player of the Year award. She won 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2019, 2020, and 2021.

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In 1998 Missy Raines' first solo album "My Place in the Sun" (self released) was named IBMA Instrumental Recording of the Year.

The Chicago Tribune named "My Place in the Sun" as one of the Top 10 Records of 1998.

In 2018, "Swept Away" from Missy's album, Royal Traveller (Compass Records) was awarded IBMA "Recorded Event of the Year. The song features the First Ladies of Bluegrass named so for being the first women to win in their instrumental category, Missy Raines (bass), Alison Brown (banjo), Becky Buller, (fiddle), Sierra Hull, (mandolin), and Molly Tuttle, (guitar).

In 2019, "Darlin' Pal(s) of Mine" also from Missy's album, Royal Traveller, was named IBMA "Instrumental Recording of the Year". This features bassists, Mike Bub and Todd Phillips, as well as Alison Brown on banjo.

In 2020, Missy Raines' album, Royal Traveller, produced by Alison Brown, (Compass Records) was nominated for a Grammy.

In 2020, Missy won IBMA "Song of the Year" for "Chicago Barn Dance" as co-writer along with Becky Buller and Alison Brown. The song was performed and recorded by the Chicago-based band "Special Consensus".

Biography

Hailing from Short Gap, West Virginia, Raines began playing bass and touring professionally as a teenager. [2] Today she is a respected bluegrass musician, playing both straight-ahead bluegrass and more progressive forms of music.

She has worked with legends such as Mac Wiseman, Kenny Baker, Josh Graves, and Eddie & Martha Adcock to current artists such as Peter Rowan, Laurie Lewis, Dudley Connell, and Don Rigsby, and the Brother Boys.

Cloud Valley

Raines was a member of the progressive bluegrass band Cloud Valley with Bill Evans (banjo), Charlie Rancke (guitar), and Steve Smith (mandolin). [3] They released two albums: A Bluegrass Ensemble in 1983 and Live In Europe in 1985.

Jim Hurst and Missy Raines

Missy Raines toured extensively from 1998- 2005 in a duo with Jim Hurst. They recorded two albums for the Pinecastle label: Two in 1999 and Synergy in 2003. [4] [5]

Claire Lynch Band

Missy and Jim re-joined the Claire Lynch Band in 2005 (along with David Harvey) when Lynch returned to the road after a hiatus. The band recorded two more albums: New Day and Crowd Favorites, both on Rounder Records. Missy left the band in 2008, and was replaced by Mark Schatz. [6]

Missy Raines & the New Hip

In 2008, Missy established her Americana/jazz-tinged ensemble Missy Raines & The New Hip, who have released two albums on the Compass label: Inside Out released February 10, 2009, and New Frontier released September 2013. Besides Missy, the New Hip includes Ethan Ballinger (guitar), Jarrod Walker (mandolin), and Cody Walker drums. [7]

Helen Highwater Stringband

Raines is a member of the bluegrass supergroup the Helen Highwater Stringband, along with Mike Compton, David Grier, and Shad Cobb. They released an eponymous EP in 2015. [8]

Online Bass School

In 2011, she began teaching double bass online at the Online Bluegrass Bass School with Missy Raines, as part of the ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass. [9]

I'll Take Love

Missy co-produced and played on the Compass release "I'll Take Love", a collection of Louisa Branscomb's songs sung by a top list of artists including The Whites, Alison Krauss, Claire Lynch, Steve Gulley, Dale Ann Bradley, Josh Williams, John Cowan, and more. [10]

Discography

Solo albums

With Claire Lynch

With Jim Hurst and Missy Raines

With Helen Highwater Stringband

As composer

As producer

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