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About the video
Kenny and Amanda Smith perform "Randall Collins" at the Bluegrass All Star
Jam at the Stillwater Community Center in Stillwater, OK on 1/24/09. Along with
Kenny and Amanda are Alan Bibey on mandolin, Sammy Shelor on banjo and
Jacob Eller on bass.
About the artists
Even without a record label supporting their music, the Kenny & Amanda Smith
Band won the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award for the
emerging artist of the year in 2003, only a year after showcasing at the
well-known bluegrass convention.
Kenny is well known among bluegrass guitarists. He was the Society
Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America's guitar player of the year three
times and was named the IBMA's guitar player of the year twice. He was also part
of perhaps the finest lineup of the Lonesome River Band in the 1990s. Amanda
began singing at the age of 9 and soon learned guitar and started writing music.
By age 19, she had won numerous talent contests and recorded two CDs.
Amanda and Kenny met at a Lonesome River Band concert in West Virginia in
1995. Their first date was in November of that year, and they've been playing
music together since.
Other members of the band include Steve Huber on banjo, Ronald Inscore on
mandolin and Greg Martin on bass. The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band released
the album House Down the Block on Rebel Records in 2004.