photo credit Josh Daubin
Dailey & Vincent
Coming to Brown County Music Center
~ by Ryan Stacy
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have been busy. As the multiple-award-winning bluegrass and country powerhouse Dailey & Vincent, the pair have spent the past year releasing a new album, touring the country, playing multiple dates at the Grand Ole Opry, and shooting the latest season of their own TV show. But they’ re making time to visit us on February 18, when they perform as part of a band at Brown County Music Center.
Darrin’ s story goes back way before he met Jamie, he says. Born into a musical family in Missouri, Darrin and his sister Rhonda— who would herself grow up to win a Grammy and become a member of the Grand Ole Opry— were raised playing and singing onstage. Since then, Darrin’ s picked up a few Grammys himself, sharing stages and studios with icons like the Oak Ridge Boys, Dolly Parton, Earl Scruggs, and many others.
It was during his time with one of his highestprofile gigs, as a guitarist in Ricky Skaggs’ legendary Kentucky Thunder, that Darrin’ s musical path crossed Jamie Dailey’ s. Sitting with Skaggs and his wife Sharon in the audience at the International Bluegrass Music Awards years back, Darrin recalls, a vocalist in one of the show’ s live acts caught his ear. It was Jamie, performing in Bluegrass Hall-of-Famer Doyle Lawson’ s band Quicksilver.“ We were all three just smitten by Jamie’ s vocal performance that night,” says Darrin.“ By the time it was over I was standing up, clapping.” He made a beeline for Jamie after the show to introduce himself, and in short order the two found themselves talking music at a Cracker Barrel one morning. In the parking lot, Jamie let Darrin listen to a recording of a song he’ d just written, and the two gave singing it together a try.“ Man, our voices just blended like it was
38 Our Brown County Jan./ Feb. 2023