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Mark McKinney Eric Lewis David Pierce
Craig Yarbrough Louis Jay Meyers

Mark McKinney (electic guitar, vocals) made his name as frontman for The Pawtuckets, and later in the Tennessee Boltsmokers. Their first release, Songs From the Floor, was released in late 2003. The sophomore release, Hydroradio. The name was derived listening to the first hydroelectric powered radio station in the U.S., located in the Catskills Mountains area. The Boltsmokers are forging a new musical path in bluegrass music that could only come from a collision of musical styles in that mysterious Memphis-way.
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Eric Lewis is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, steel guitar, dobro, and mandolin) who performs and records with some of the top Memphis artists such as Lewis and Burroughs, Jimbo Mathus and the Starlite Wranglers, Amy LaVere , The Tennessee Boltsmokers, Eric and Andy, Keith Sykes, Jimmy Davis, Lance Strode, Chris Scott, and many others. Eric has also toured the country with the first national tour of "Patsy!", starring Gail Bliss. He has also worked with Claudia Russell and the Folk Unlimited Orchesra, Doc Heide, American Folklore Theatre, E-squared artist Cheri Knight, Jason Petty and the Honky Tonk Heroes Band, and Prairie Home Companion favorites Robin and Linda Williams. In 2008, Eric was voted "Best Male Musician" in the Door County Magazine reader's poll. In 2003, he received the Premier Player Award for Strings by the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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David Pierce (mandolin, vocals) got his musical influences in college, hanging out with Memphis legends, Fatback Jubilee and the River Bluff Clan. From 1999 through 2003, he toured on the bluegrass festival circuit with the Tennessee Gentlemen. He was recently nominated for his first Premier Player's Award by the Memphis Chapter of NARAS (the Grammys). Nowadays, he plays mandolin and sings for both 2 Mule Plow and The Tennessee Boltsmokers.
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Craig Yarbrough
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Louis Jay Meyers
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