If you want to know what it’s like being in the studio with us, here is a peek at our process.

We don’t have any fun at all!

We can’t wait for you to hear this new album. Hear it first as a member! www.balsamnation.com

As part of your participation in the Balsam Nation Community, we are going to get you a new recorded song per month, each month, for a year!
Caleb and Darren have been coming up with ideas for what to record. Check out their suggestions but be sure to let us know what you would like us to record. Just post your own suggestions here!

Remember, membership for Balsam Nation is limited so if you want a new Balsam Range song each month over the next year, sign up now at www.balsamnation.com.

Let us introduce you to Balsam Nation:

What is Balsam Nation?

Balsam Nation is Balsam Range + YOU.

We’re from the mountains of North Carolina but we free range from the Smokies to the Rockies…From the Plains of Texas to Boston Common and beyond. We’re an ever-growing family made up of millworkers, railroad hands, foot soldiers, church house preachers and schoolhouse teachers; we’re fireman and policemen, doctors and lawyers, jokers and joggers, clowns and cloggers. We’re lumberjacks and well drillers, number crunchers and burger grillers!

We’re the post office, the paper mill, the bowling alley and the beauty parlor. We’re college kids and grandkids, and the parents and grandparents. We’re renegades, retirees, republicans and democrats. We’re hillbillies and rednecks, hunters and fishermen. We’re autoworkers and steelworkers. We’re Balsam Nation, no matter what we do for a living or where we happen to live.

We are the music of family and faith, of fun and friends. We Are Balsam Nation!

Member Benefits

Your one-year Balsam Nation membership (July 1, 2012—June 30, 2013) includes:

1. The New Album, Papertown: We’ll send you our new CD before anyone can purchase it. OR choose to download it with the artwork and get it even earlier. (Learn more…)
2. Monthly Music Mania: Twelve MORE new songs, delivered to you digitally here on this site, one per month. (Learn more…)
3. Music Video: Download your very own copy of our new single-song video. (Learn more…)
4. reLIVE: EVEN MORE music! We will record one of our concerts this year, live, and will make it available to you here on this site as a download, only for members of Balsam Nation. (Learn more…)
5. Member Hangouts: Come hang out with us backstage before select live shows. (Learn more…)
6. Mobile App: New Balsam Nation Mobile App (iPhone / Android). Chat live with other Balsam Nation members and the band at shows. (Learn more…)
7. Pick With the Band®: Download Papertown, minus one instrument (your choice), so you can pick along with us. (Learn more…)

Not only will you receive all this, but you will also be supporting Balsam Range directly as we tour and share the music that you already love with new fans all over the world.

If you’re among the first 1,000, you will get a free video download of Balsam Range’s first live performance of “Wide River,” a song from Papertown!

Join today!

When Buddy stepped on stage with us Saturday for the first time since the accident, it was a magical moment. Here’s a video:

Hey Everybody. Thanks as always for stopping by the Range. I had a few things to tell you about this week. You all know how much I love Gospel Music. I’ve spent most of my life playing it, and the rest of it listening to it. I wanted to let you know about a couple of Gospel events coming up for Balsam Range.
First, we want to invite our friends in the Knoxville area to come be with us this coming Sunday morning at 11 AM at Fellowship Baptist Church in Lenoir City, Tennessee. The music minister there, Clifton Posey, is a great friend of Balsam Range, and a great personal friend of mine. I have played in his church several times on my own, but this the band’s first time there. It’s always a great service there, and I would make the trip just to hear the church choir. They sing the old songs out of the old red book! I’m really looking forward to this service! Check our concert page for details and directions.
Speaking of Bluegrass Gospel, I really hope you will come see us for the last performance in our Winter Concert Series for this year. Our guest will be David Johnson. He’s not a household name, but if you’ve heard a Gospel song of any kind in the last 20 years, then there’s a good chance that you’ve heard him. He is one of the most in-demand session players in the country. The amazing thing about David is that he plays every instrument you can think of with master skill. Guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, dobro, bass, piano, steel guitar, cello, drums, are some of the things I’ve seen him play in the studio and on stage. One of my favorite musical memories is a show that I was on in Raleigh a few years ago. Tony Rice called me to play a show with him and Bryan Sutton. He asked me who we should get to play mandolin and fiddle, and I immediately thought of David. He blew us away that night. Rice told me, he may be the best musician I know.
We had David with us at our Trains I Missed cd release concert, some of you will remember. If you were there you probably thought the same thing we did. He is Overqualified for this gig!
The great thing about David is that he is as good a man as he is talented. He is heavily involved in his church, as youth minister and teacher. Even though he’s been voted Studio Musician of the Year several times, he is amazingly humble. I had the great honor of being invited to induct him into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame a few years ago.
I hope you will be there in Canton, NC on April 7. David will be joining Balsam Range for an all Gospel night to celebrate the Easter holiday. It’s going to be a great night of Bluegrass Gospel, with new songs and old favorites as well. I am really looking forward to this one!

Only a few days left until the next show in our Winter Concert Series. We’re so excited to bring The Harris Brothers back to the Colonial Theatre in Canton, N.C. this coming Saturday night. You folks that saw them last year can attest to their astounding talent. Great singing, virtuoso musicianship, they have it all. When you hear as much music as we do, it’s hard to hear anything that just blows you away. These guys do it. They might play a Delta Blues tune, then turn around and play Conway Twitty! They are amazing.
As for Balsam Range, We’re thinking about trying some new material out on our home folks. We’re working on a new cd, so we thought we might run a new song up the flagpole and see if anybody salutes!
This show sold out last year, so get your tickets now. Click on the Winter Concert Series Icon on this page to get yours! Don’t miss this night. You WILL have a great time, guaranteed.