Missy Raines
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Biography
Missy Raines, born April 6, 1962 in Short Gap, West Virginia, is an American bassist, singer, teacher, and songwriter. She began her professional career as a teenager and was part of the progressive bluegrass band Cloud Valley in 1983. Raines' first solo album, My Place in the Sun, was released in 1998 and named IBMA Instrumental Recording of the Year. She won her first IBMA Bass Player of the Year award that same year, becoming the first woman to do so. From 1998 to 2005, she toured with Jim Hurst. In 2008, Raines established her Americana/jazz-tinged ensemble Missy Raines & The New Hip. Her album Royal Traveller, released in 2018, was nominated for a Grammy. She has won ten IBMA Bass Player of the Year awards (1998-2001, 2004, 2006-2007, 2019-2021). She also released other solo albums such as Inside Out (2009), 2013: New Frontier (2013), and Royal Traveller (2018).
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- Velvet Western Sky featuring Missy Raines
- Are You Ready To Say Goodbye?
- Reach featuring Missy Raines
- Without You Being Here with Me featuring Chris Jones
- Daydreamer's Waltz featuring Bill Payne
- New Phase of the Moon featuring Darol Anger
- A World Far Beyond featuring Claire Lynch
- Fingernail Moon
- Listen To The Lonesome Wind
- Fergus County Jail featuring Missy Raines
- Ghost Of A Love by Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper
- Fast Moving Train
- Allegheny Town
- Fearless Love
- Swept Away
- Royal Traveller
- Who Needs A Mine? by Kathy Mattea
- Free World
- I've Endured
- Cryin' & Singin'
- Under A Dark Sky
- To Here From There
- Goodbye Virginia
- Jerusalem's Choir by Missy Raines
