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Name: Claire Lynch
Group: Claire Lynch Band (CLB)
Date: Friday January 25th, 2008
Time: 1:00pm EDT
Website: www.clairelynch.com
Interviewer: Gracie Muldoon
Description:
Lynch and her family lived in Kingston, New York until the age of 12, when the family moved to Hazel Green, Alabama. She began her Claire joined her first Band Hickory Wind back in 1973. Eventually, they changed the name of the band to the Front Porch String band and toured the southeastern states. By 1981, despite a handful of well-received albums (including Lynch's first solo effort, Breakin' It) and increasing word-of-mouth, the band had tired of the grind and called it quits. A decade would pass before the band re-grouped. Claire is a prolific songwriter (her songs have been recorded by Patty Loveless, the Seldom Scene, Kathy Mattea, the Whites and Stephanie Davis). Her harmonies have been on albums by such leading artists as Loveless, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Pam Tillis, Kathy Mattea, John Starling and Ralph Stanley.
A re-energized Front Porch String Band came back onto the scene with their 1991 album, Lines and Traces. The success of that album and of the band led to Claire's second solo album, Friends for a Lifetime in 1993. Moonlighter was Grammy nominated in 1995, followed by 1997's Silver and Gold, which also received a Grammy nomination.
During the next several years on the fast-track, the Front Porch String Band evolved into one of the sharpest, most exciting bluegrass bands on the circuit. Their last recording effort was on Lynch's 2000 solo CD on Rounder, Love Light, a collection more-than-half of original Claire Lynch songs.
Claire received an IBMA award for "Female Vocalist of the Year" (1997) Since 2005, Lynch has been touring and recording with former FPSB bandmates Jim Hurst and Missy Raines, plus Dave Harvey under the name "The Claire Lynch Band". Lynch's 2006 Rounder release, "New Day," was named #2 in Bluegrass Now magazine's Top Ten Albums of the Year chart.
In April, 2007, fiddler/mandolinist Jason Thomas joined The Claire Lynch Band, replacing Dave Harvey.
In May, 2007, The Claire Lynch Band undertook its first-ever European tour.
In August 2007, Lynch was nominated IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year.
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