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Raybon says. “And of course, hey it’s always
a good thing when you get a chance to get
together with a gang of buddies that you
had through the years and pick and sing
together.” them interesting because I believe that if
you ever get bored with what you’re doing
then maybe you need to change it up a little
bit and put a little spice in it, just like you
would life.”
Shenandoah released the album Reloaded
earlier this year. “Our first single from that
was a tune called “Noise” that done real, real
well,” Raybon says. “In fact, it was our first top
20 record in 20 years.” Raybon acknowledges and truly appreciates
the sacrifices that people make to support
his music. He pinpoints one night at a fair in
West Virginia in the late 80s that he says was
“the catalyst” for the way Shenandoah sets
out to perform.
Reloaded includes live recordings from some
of Shenandoah’s greatest hits, giving fans
the chance to revisit those classics in a new
way. “Down through the years you tend to
do your records and stuff like that, and then
you start changing them and they morph
into this and morph into that,” Raybon says.
“You don’t change them to the point that
people don’t recognize them, it’s just that
you continue doing different things to keep
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“After the show we’d go out to the table and
sign autographs and stuff and there was a
young couple that came up. And me and
Jim Seals, the guitar player, we were sitting
on the last two seats as they were coming
through the line, and this young couple said
‘You know, we knew this was a night that
y’all were going to be at the fair and we
wanted to come and see yall, but we didn’t
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