The result was nothing less than spectacular when they hit the road last month, simultaneously releasing their debut album on Rounder. They’d already booked over 110 show dates before they’d even played their first gig! Praise has already begun to pour in from around the globe, with artists from many genres chiming in about the new band’s new sound. “Dailey & Vincent make my ear-hairs curl and my toes curl,” quips famed singer/songwriter Bruce Hornsby. “Their name is on the lips of everyone in the know, as far as I’m concerned. I’m flying the banner for Dailey & Vincent.”

Dailey & Vincent are no strangers to the world of bluegrass. Both, coincidentally, have been playing and singing since the age of three (Jamie is 32 and Darrin is 37), and between the two of them, they can sing and play all the parts and all the instruments in a typical band.

Likewise, Vincent’s parents, Johnny and Carolyn, brought him in front of crowds alongside his sister Rhonda at the Sally Mountain Show, when both were very young. Born and raised in Missouri, Vincent is a sixth-generation musician who has been completely surrounded by bluegrass his entire life. By the late 1990s, Vincent had developed such a strong reputation as a versatile musician that Ricky Skaggs selected him to be part of his band when Skaggs returned to bluegrass in 1997.

Born in Corbin, KY, Jamie was raised in the bluegrass tradition in the Gainesboro and Livingston, TN area. His father, J.B. Dailey, had him onstage performing on a regular basis by the time he was nine. Jamie worked with Cumberland Connection and Clear Creek in the early 90s, and in 1996, he founded Highland Rim and started winning bluegrass band contests at festivals all over the South. This caused him to catch the attention of Doyle Lawson, and in 1998, he was invited to join Quicksilver.

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