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About the video
King Wilkie performs Bill Monroe's "The Long Bow" on Woodsong's Old-time
Radio Hour (Show #311)
About the artist
Based in Charlottesville, Va., King Wilkie is a bluegrass sextet of young men in
their 20s. Lead vocals are shared by Reid Burgess (mandolin) and John
McDonald (guitar). Ted Pitney provides lead guitar and harmony vocals, and
Abe Spear (banjo), Nick Reeb (fiddle) and Drew Breakey (upright bass) round
out the band. They take their name from Bill Monroe's favorite steed.
The seeds of the band were germinated in Ohio in 2000. College pals Pitney
and Burgess took in a bluegrass festival and, transported by what they saw and
heard, they immediately set about immersing themselves in all things bluegrass.
Upon graduating in 2001, the duo moved to a farmhouse outside Charlottesville
and began recruiting musicians from across the country.
King Wilkie cut a live independent album, True Songs, as a quintet in 2003.
Rebel Records released Broke in 2004. Pitney wrote four songs on Broke, and
Burgess wrote two. The album also includes Jimmie Rodgers' "Blue Yodel #7,"
Jimmie Davis' "Where the Old Red River Flows," "Sparkling Brown Eyes" (a hit
for Wanda Jackson and Webb Pierce), the Monroe Brothers' "Some Glad Day"
and the traditional "Little Birdie."