//  Origin: Siler City, NC

//  Genres:  Bluegrass, Acoustic County & Americana
 
//  Label:  Turnberry Records
 
//  Website:  www.nu-blu.com

// Single 1: Time (Still On You're Side)

// ISRC: QMHE2100300
 
// UPC: 760137624028

// Single 2: Jesus Loves You

// ISRC:QM6MZ2074477

// UPC: 760137624028
 
// Single 3: Horse Thieves & Moonshiners

// ISRC: QM4TX2055606

// UPC: 760137624028

 
 

Press Release
 

The Will (Featuring Sharon White and Ricky Skaggs) (3:30)

ISRC: QZMHE2100301 

Songwriters: Dennis Morgan, Rockie Lynne
Publishers: Little Shop of Morgansongs (c/o Morgan Music Group, Inc.)- BMI  / Carolina Blue Sky Music- BMI 

Release Date: September 26, 2023

Musicians:
Carolyn Routh – Lead Vocals
Sharon White - Harmony Vocals
Ricky Skaggs - Harmony Vocals
Daniel Routh - Guitar/Bass
Austin Hefflefinger – Guitar

Production Credits:
Tracked and Mixed at: Red Squared Audio, NC
Mixed / Mastered by: Red Squared Audio, NC
Engineered by: Daniel Routh, Austin Hefflfiner
Executive Producers: Keith Barnacastle, Daniel Routh
Produced by: Nu-Blu
Cover Artwork: Red Squared Entertainment
Photography: Joel Alexander
Additional Tracks Recorded at: Ben's Den, Nashville, TN
Special Thanks: Ben Isaacs, and Mark Capps
Special Guests: Sharon White and Ricky Skaggs

Nu-Blu Celebrates 20 years with new album!

Lead Single "The Will" featuring Sharon White and Ricky Skaggs now available to radio!

Nashville, TN: This September will kick off the 20th anniversary of the top 10 Billboard charting band Nu-Blu. With the upcoming release of their new album "Where You've Been", Nu-Blu brings you the lead single,"The Will."

It sets the scene of a Carolina farmer, recently passed away, and the reading of his will points his children to the things most important in life.  Written by Rockie Lynne and Dennis Morgan (The Dance-Garth Brooks, Smoky Mountain Rain-Ronnie Millsap, I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool, Barbara Mandrell and George Jones) and tracked at Red Squared Audio with additional tracks recorded at Ben's Den (Ben Issacs and Mark Capps) in Nashville, TN.

Nu-Blu is joined by Sharon White of The Whites and Ricky Skaggs on this emotional song..."Even the demo made us cry the first time we heard it," says Carolyn Routh. "We listened and almost at the same time said, this would be perfect to ask Sharon to do with us.  We sent it to her, and she called us back and said that Ricky would like to sing on it as well!  We were blow away!  At some point during the tracking of Sharon and Ricky's vocals, I think everyone teared up a little...this is a song you can't listen to without getting emotional."

Releasing later this fall, the full album "Where You've Been" is a collection of songs chosen by the band as a retrospective, of those moments in life that lead to a change in course, or an action/reaction that may affect a person years down the road. 
 
"We've had so many people and circumstances guide our career," says Daniel Routh. "Our first 3 singles from the album (Horse Thieves and Moonshiners, Jesus Loves You, and Time) were perfect to set this album up.  You have to know where you came from, and in the end where your going, all without wasting a second of time in life. We're looking forward to sharing the entire album with you and thank you all for helping us to make it to 20 years!"

About Nu-Blu:

After releasing five Top Ten Billboard albums, North Carolina based Nu-Blu has quickly established themselves as one of the top Acoustic acts in the music industry, delivering a set of songs that range from the melancholy to the exuberant, and at every step they prove they’ve got a knack for finding their way into the deeper parts of you.  
 

Over the years, they’ve turned many heads, garnering major headlines with their George Jones inspired tribute single "Jesus and Jones" featuring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer 'Soul Man' Sam Moore (of the iconic duo Sam and Dave). The award-winning band has also made appearances on Fox News in the past, while also having their music featured on CBS "Sunday Morning."  Recently they have moved into the role of helping bring Bluegrass to the masses, serving as the weekly host of the nationally-syndicated TV show "Bluegrass Ridge," which airs in 120 million homes worldwide. 
 

Hailing from Siler City, the textbook definition of a picturesque small southern town, Nu-Blu’s heart and soul is husband-and-wife duo Daniel and Carolyn Routh. Carolyn’s caramel-coated soprano is one of the band’s defining traits, at times a tender lullaby, at times a freight train headed straight for you, but always unwinding a surprising tale. Daniel is the group’s backbone, a multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist who also handles band management. Austin Hefflefinger on banjo, and Justin Harrison on mandolin round out the quartet’s warm, layered, Appalachian sound. Together they deliver upbeat, blazing-fingers pick work just as well as gentle, heartwarming ballads, and they do it all with a natural togetherness that can’t be faked, forged over hundreds of shows on the road.