Shenandoah (band)

Shenandoah
Shenandoah in July 2008. L-R: Mike Folsom, Stan Munsey, Jimmy Yeary, Jim Seales, Mike McGuire.
Background information
Origin	Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S.
Genres	Country
Years active	1984–1997, 2000–present
Labels	Columbia/CBS, RCA, Liberty, Capitol, Free Falls, Cumberland Road
Associated acts	Robert Byrne, Alison Krauss, Orrall & Wright, Raybon Brothers, Super Grit Cowboy Band
Website	www.shenandoahband.com
Members	Paul Sanders Mike McGuire Stan Munsey Marty Raybon Jamie Michael
Past members	Chris Lucas † Ralph Ezell Mike Folsom Brent Lamb Chris Roach Jim Seales Doug Stokes Stan Thorn Rocky Thacker Curtis Wright Jimmy Yeary

Shenandoah is an American country music group founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1984 by Marty Raybon (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Ralph Ezell (bass guitar, backing vocals), Stan Thorn (keyboards, backing vocals), Jim Seales (lead guitar, backing vocals), and Mike McGuire (drums, background vocals). Thorn and Ezell left the band in the mid-1990s, with Rocky Thacker taking over on bass guitar; Keyboardist Stan Munsey joined the line up in 1995. The band split up in 1997 after Raybon left. Seales, Munsey, Thacker and McGuire reformed the band in 2000 with lead singer Brent Lamb, who was in turn replaced by Curtis Wright and then by Jimmy Yeary. Ezell rejoined in the early 2000s, and after his 2007 death, he was replaced by Mike Folsom. Raybon returned to the band in 2014. That same year, Jamie Michael replaced the retiring Jim Seales on lead guitar.

Shenandoah has released nine studio albums, of which two have been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The band has also charted twenty-six singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the Number One hits "The Church on Cumberland Road," "Sunday in the South" and "Two Dozen Roses" from 1989, "Next to You, Next to Me" from 1990, and "If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)" from 1994. The late 1994-early 1995 single "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart," which featured guest vocals from Alison Krauss, won both artists a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.