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Dale Ann is the 2007, 2008, & 2009 IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year.

Dale Ann Bradley is nothing if not a great storyteller, but her ability to step into someone else's shoes and make t... more

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ABOUT DALE ANN BRADLEY

Dale Ann Bradley is the 2007, 2008 & 2009 IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year and has been hailed by Alison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs as one of the greatest vocalists in country and bluegrass music. A former Coon Creek Girl and mainstay at Kentucky’s Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Bradley commands a list of awards as long as Highway 40, yet a few minutes with her tells you she is something even more than extraordinarily gifted—she’s extraordinarily human. A Primitive Baptist preacher’s daughter out of the hills of Kentucky where no musical instruments were allowed, Bradley grew up in a self-described “backwoods holler” down a rural road where electricity and running water weren’t available until she was in high school—something she has more in common with the first generation of bluegrass than her contemporaries in today’s scene. "It was very different. It was not easy," she says. And even as a girl, she knew she wanted more. "When you go up on one of the mountains there, it's breathtakingly gorgeous -- but I was so sure I was never going to be able to leave."

She was sure of something else: her love for music. An uncle who'd been part of the Appalachian migration to Detroit city brought country music tapes back with him when he came to visit, opening her ears to music beyond church hymns. Bradley began to claim her own right to music as a teenager, borrowing her uncle's guitar to play and sing at school events. Eventually that love for music would take her out of the mountains and into the top ranks of bluegrass stars.

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