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"QUOTES ABOUT JEFF & SARAH.
"Jeff and Sarah are great artists and great people.Their music rings trueThat's all you need to know about these folks."
LLOYD MAINES, Grammy Award Winning Producer, Dixie Chicks
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"This music is pure & wonderful AmericanaThe mountains, and the people who make up their culture are beatifically sculpted into words by Jeff and Sarah. Listen to life from their perspective. It'll reach down and grab ya!.I know it did me."
LARRY CORDLE, Writer, "Murder On Music Row", "Highway 40 Blues", and many others.
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Jeff Barbra and Sarah Pirkle have been married (to each other!) for 9 years, and make their home in Walland, TN in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains national park.
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PERFORMERS.
Jeff & Sarah play original acoustic music seasoned with flavors of American roots music: bluegrass, classic country, old-time, and folk. With Jeff on guitar and mandolin and Sarah on fiddle, this married duo from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee combine experienced voices with solid musicianship to create new sound with an old fashioned twist.
Their independent debut album "Dog Years", was released regionally on March 25, 2000. Two singles from the album, "The Piney Rose" and "When I Come Home" were released nationally in 2001.
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Sarah and Jeff's latest album, "The Barb Hollow Sessions" was released on January 1, 2004 and received rave reviews around the country.
The album debuted at 6 on the Roots Music Report National Bluegrass Airplay Charts.
The single, "Bury Me In The Red Clay" peaked at 12 on the Bluegrass Unlimited National Bluegrass Chart for November 2004. It was on the charts for 8 months.
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SONGWRITERS.
Jeff and Sarah are 1st PLACE WINNERS of the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MERLEFEST. They performed their winning song, "When I Come Home" at Merlefest for a crowd of 50,000+. Established recording artists are now taking notice of their songwriting talents.
Artists like Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines, John Starling, Charlie Sizemore, Jay Clark, Laura Walker, Eric Lewis and Andy Ratliff, Blue Moon Rising, Gary Ferguson and Sally Love, Rickie Simpkins, Dale Anne Bradley, Carrie Hassler, Darrell Webb, Ernie Thacker, and others have cut their songs.
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Jeff and Sarah also wrote the score to the original play, "Measured In Labor, The Coal Creek Project" for the Actor's CO-Op In Knoxville, TN in 2004. Jeff and Sarah toured with the company and played their original music live with the play, both in Knoxville and on the road tour.
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Both have been creating their own tunes since they were children. Recently Sarah discovered a long lost recording of her at age 5, where she made up a song on the spot! Jeff believes he started his songwriting journey began as an early teen when he was inspired by the songs of James Taylor and Merle Haggard. Writing was a hobby that Jeff and Sarah had in common and explored together when they began dating. A lot of those first dates were gigs!
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ON THE RADIO.
They also were the hosts and producers of the "Behind the Barn" concert series, which was heard on 89.9 WDVX in the East Tennessee area, andstreamed live on the web at WDVX.com every Wednesday night from 9pm-10pm EST for nearly 5 years and featured a performance by Jeff and Sarah as well as a different regional or national act every week. Past performers for this show included:
Chris Knight, Larry Cordle, Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines, Rod Picott, Walt Wilkins, Danny Barnes, The Greasy Beans, The Steep Canyon Rangers, James King, Dale Anne Bradley, John Cowan, Tony Furtado, The Kruger Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, Jon Randall Stewart, Steve Young, Randy Weeks, Duane Jarvis, Randy Kohrs, Phil Lee, Karl Shiflett, The Dempseys, Chip Taylor, Chris Jones, and many, many more.
