several #1s on Bluegrass Today’s Top 20 and the Roots Music Report Top 50 Bluegrass Albums charts. The album also appeared on the Roots Music Report’s Top 100 Bluegrass Albums of 2014. “Loudermilk is a fine singer, himself, executing his own songs admirably as you hear on the mournful Blacksmoke George, the IIIrd Tyme Outish Georgia Mountain Man, and Open Roads, a paean to the freedom to move on. ” Bluegrass Today Edgar Loudermilk (Lead Vocals, Guitar) For more information on Edgar Loudermilk, please visit Edgar Loudermilk certainly has music running through his veins. A relative of the famous Louvin Brothers and being surrounded by music at an early age, he was no surprise he was only nine when he began playing bass in his family’s band. Influenced greatly by his father and grandfather, Loudermilk cut his teeth on bluegrass by learning to play bass to the legendary record, “Bluegrass Album Band Volume 1″ record. He continued to play in his family’s band until joining CarolinaCrossfire. The band had quite a following and it wasn’t long before he decided to try his hand at on a larger professional scale, a decision that has made him a staple for elite artists in bluegrass music. Loudermilk previously toured with award-winning bluegrass queen Rhonda Vincent, followed by a gig as bass player and tenor singer in Marty Raybon’s (then newly formed group) Full Circle. He would back up Marty Raybon for almost five years. In 2006, Loudermilk took over the bass playing and singing duties and became the newest member of IIIrd Tyme Out, replacing longtime bass player Ray Deaton in July, 2007. Late 2013, he left that band, and partnered with Dave Adkins to form the new Adkins & Loudermilk. Loudermilk is also an impressive songwriter having written all twelve songs on his first album titled Roads Traveled and all 15 songs on his October 2013 Mountain Fever Records’ release, My Big Chance Tomorrow. The album appeared on numerous radio charts and also hit the Roots Music
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