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Donna Ulisse Joins Mountain Home Music Company and Windsor Forest Publishing
by Greg McGrath | 7 Jun, 2017
Doyle Lawson and Donna Ulisse
Donna Ulisse's first album on the Mountain Home Music label will be produced by Doyle Lawson.
Donna Ulisse is one of the most highly regarded songwriters in bluegrass. She has been nominated for the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Songwriter of the Year award every year since its inception, and won that top honour in 2016. Her distinctive voice is at once strong and dynamic, and the next minute soft and angelic, lending the perfect emotion to every song in her impressive library of recorded projects, each a blend of traditional and contemporary bluegrass, gospel and country flavours.
The reigning IBMA Songwriter of the Year now joins forces with the equally formidable Mountain Home Music Company. Having signed with the label as a recording artist, Donna concurrently brings her prolific songwriting to the relationship through a deal with Windsor Forest Publishing. Both Mountain Home and Windsor Forest are part of the Crossroads Entertainment & Marketing company.
I've been so blessed with a consistent and multi-faceted career, and a small, but mighty team to keep all of the balls in the air. Still, I just felt the time had come to dig deeper and reach farther, so I called on a trusted source for advice – Donna Ulisse.
That counsel came from Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Doyle Lawson, who listened to Donna's broadening career plans, and ultimately made the introduction to Mountain Home, the label that Doyle has called home since 2003. Lawson will produce Donna's first album on her new label.
I could not be more excited. Everyone at Mountain Home has been so welcoming, and they provide the expertise and the resources to give me the reach I'm hoping for. This new relationship really frees me to focus on the core of my passion as an artist: songwriting, recording and performing. And of course, working with one of my own musical heroes, Doyle Lawson, is a dream come true – Donna Ulisse.
Throughout the various phases of her career, Donna Ulisse has remained true to who she is, and that musical integrity comes across in every note she sings and every lyric she writes. Born into a musical family in Hampton, Virginia, she grew up surrounded by traditional sounds, and from an early age was drawn to performing. She later married Rick Stanley, a cousin of bluegrass legends Ralph and Carter Stanley, and was further influenced by his family's Clinch Mountain roots.
Donna's varied career has seen her succeed as a highly in-demand demo singer and background vocalist, working with legends such as Jerry Reed. A production deal with Dale Morris, manager of the super-group Alabama, led to her well-received traditional country album, Trouble At The Door, and two Billboard-charting singles. As a songwriter, she has amassed a brilliant catalog of songs that have been recorded by the Del McCoury Band, Claire Lynch and many others. She has an impressive catalog of her own recordings as well.
With her band, The Poor Mountain Boys, Ulisse looks forward to hitting the road with both fan favorites and new music to share. With a powerful new team on her side, Donna is ready for the next facet of her already shining career as a recording artist, songwriter and performer.
About Mountain Home Music Company:
A premiere Bluegrass label with global distribution, Mountain Home Music Company represents elite and award-winning artists including Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Boxcars, Lonesome River Band, Balsam Range, The Grascals, The Snyder Family Band, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Danny Roberts, Crowe Lawson Williams, Newtown and Flatt Lonesome.
Mountain Home is a division of Crossroads Entertainment & Marketing, Inc., a company with decades of music marketing, licensing, distribution and promotional experience, bringing artists to the world marketplace. With an award-winning, state-of-the-art recording studio, Crossroads has been in operation since 1993 and provides artists with a world-class recording experience. Their marketing division has promoted award-winning and Grammy®-nominated albums, and the radio promotion department has achieved multiple #1 singles. Dedicated to the sustainable career of artists, the Crossroads team is dedicated to cooperative efforts with artists, fans, the media, and the industry at large.
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