He instilled it in me, the working and making your music as good as you possible can. “If you can’t give it the best you’ve got, then just don’t fool with. They wanted to get it right and good, and they did,” Lawson said. “Although my dad was not professional, they were pretty well perfectionists.
He is known as a perfectionist when it comes to four-part harmonies, and he traces that work ethic to his father. Lawson’s band was named IBMA vocal group of the year seven times. “I love gospel music, I always have,” Lawson said. He founded his own band in 1979, and has always served up a heaping helping of a capella and gospel songs both in recordings and live shows. Lawson later played mandolin and sang with the Country Gentlemen and the Bluegrass Album Band. He went on to play guitar and mandolin with J.D. Lawson, 73, started out in bluegrass as a banjo player in Jimmy Martin’s Sunny Mountain Boys. Harmony singing has been a staple in Lawson’s progressive bluegrass band, which has served for nearly 40 years as a “school of bluegrass” to some of the top singers in the genre, including Jamie Dailey, Lou Reid and Russell Moore. “That’s probably where I learned to sing harmony was just watching and listening to them when they would be practicing, putting the songs together.” “From the time I was 5, 6 years old, I was always around and I’d watch them practice,” Lawson said in a phone interview from his home in eastern Tennessee. Lawson has a deep affection for Southern Gospel because he grew up listening to his dad sing in an a capella quartet. “We are excited to have them,” Bailey said. Bailey said he wanted to reach out to the bluegrass fans in the area by adding Lawson because the two genres are “cousins.” This year, he decided to reach a little outside the Southern gospel genre to book Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, a member of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Hall of Fame. Pastor Bill Bailey again has an all-star lineup coming to his annual five-day Winter Gospel Music Convention in Palmetto. Tickets are $20 per night or $105 for weeknight pass $145 for VIP reserved weeklong pass. All events at Bradenton Area Convention Center, 1 Haben Blvd., Palmetto. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver perform after 7 p.m. Bill Bailey’s Winter Gospel Convention: Monday through Feb.
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