Marty Raybon Returns to Front Shenandoah after 17 years

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Great news for fans of country band Shenandoah! Marty Raybon, owner of one of the best voices in music, will return to front the quartet.

Raybon co-founded the band in 1984 along with Ralph Ezell, Stan Thorn, Jim Seales, and Mike McGuire, in the city of Muscle Shoals, AL – a landmark of world music history. The band first split in 1997, re-formed without Raybon in 2000, and went through a series of line-up changes over the previous decade.

Now, Raybon will return as the lead singer, with bandmates Mike McGuire, Stan Munsey and Chris Lucas.

“We were not a band that broke up because of dissension,” he told Rolling Stone Country. “We had our disagreements, as partners do in a business relationship, [but] we were then and remain to be friends. Returning to the band had actually been talked about on several different occasions throughout the years. I’ve always been truly proud of what we accomplished… the songs we recorded, the way they moved people. For years, all of us have heard what those tunes, those stories, meant to folks. We feel there is more to be said. So it’s time to reload and fulfill the request, not only of our hearts but for all the fans who want to see us back together.”

More information about the next chapter of Shenandoah history will be announced soon, but hopefully it will include a new album and tour.

For more updates, please visit www.shenandoahband.com.

 

Liv Carter

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